The Ache of Marriage (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Denise Levertov
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Family or family life, Husbands, Wives, Love or romance, Marriage, Women’s issues, Women, Human behavior, Home, Weddings
The Poem
“The Ache of Marriage” is part of a Denise Levertov collection entitled O Taste and See: New Poems. In the title poem and others in the collection, Levertov moves outward from the sensual and immediate to the wider implications of actions or concepts. The poems are filled with rich physical detail, which the poet uses in this particular poem to present the essential qualities of a marriage. Levertov had written about marriage in earlier poems such as “The Marriage, I” and “The Marriage, II” (in her 1958 and 1960 collections), but those love poems are...
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