Angle of Geese (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: N. Scott Momaday
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Elegy
- Genres: Poetry, Elegy
- Subjects: Children, Parents and children, Death or dying, Birds, Hunting or hunters, Joy or sorrow, Sympathy
The Poem
“Angle of Geese” is an elegy in six four-line stanzas. The poem presents an initial obscurity to the reader, for the subject and occasion are not immediately clear. The author evidently recognized the reader’s potential difficulty; according to Matthias Schubnell, N. Scott Momaday wrote to his friend and mentor, Yvor Winters, that he proposed adding an epigraph to the poem: “For a friend on the death of his child.”
In fact, the poem alludes to two separate incidents in the author’s life. The first three stanzas express a plural “we”: The occasion...
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