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Lying In A Hammock At William Duffy's Farm In Pine Island, Minnesota
"Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota" is a poem by American poet James Wright (poet), James Wright. It is one of his best known poems, partially because of the tonal contrast between the content of the poem and its final line. History The poem was first published in ''The Paris Review''. It was later featured in a short story by Ann Beattie also published in ''The Paris Review''. The poem was included in Wright's collection ''This Branch Will Not Break''. Content The poem is a description of a pastoral scene from the perspective of a person in a hammock. Final line The poem concludes with the line "I have wasted my life." The line is one of the most highly regarded and widely debated lines in contemporary poetry, and has often been seen as having had cemented Wright's poetic legacy. The line has been widely interpreted. In 2010, Dan Piepenbring, writer for ''The Paris Review'', summarized a large amount of the attention directed towards the poem: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Wright (poet)
James Arlington Wright (December 13, 1927 – March 25, 1980) was an American poet. Life James Wright was born and spent his childhood in Martins Ferry, Ohio. His father worked in a glass factory, and his mother in a laundry. Neither parent had received more than an eighth grade education. Wright suffered a nervous breakdown in 1943, and he graduated a year late from high school, in 1946. After graduating from high school, Wright enlisted in the U.S. Army and participated in the occupation of Japan. Following his discharge, he attended Kenyon College on the GI Bill, studied with John Crowe Ransom, and published poems in the Kenyon Review. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1952. That year, Wright married Liberty Kardules, another Martins Ferry native. Wright subsequently spent a year in Vienna on a Fulbright Fellowship, returning to the U.S. where he obtained a master's and a Ph.D. at the University of Washington, studying with Theodore Roethke and Stanley Kunitz. Wright first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |