Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: N. Scott Momaday
- First Published: 1965
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Art or artists, Religion, California, West, U.S., Christianity, Painting or painters, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Pictures, Jesus Christ
The Poem
“Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion” by N. Scott Momaday is a poem divided into six stanzas, each with six verses. As a lyric poem, it is a variation of the Italian or Petrarchan sonnet usually defined as fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. Although differing in the number of stanzas and verses, “Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion” retains the traditional iambic pentameter rhythm of the Italian sonnet and follows the most frequently used rhyme scheme of its second stanza, abcabc.
The title informs the reader of the subject of the...
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