Nov 22, 2008

Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion | Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion

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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Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion | Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion

At a glance:

The Poem

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