The Broken Tower (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Hart Crane
- First Published: 1932
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Language or languages, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Communication, Religion, Poetry or poets, Bells
The Poem
“The Broken Tower” was the last poem that Hart Crane composed before committing suicide in 1932, and the poem does indeed have the eerie quality of a poetic last will and testament. Crane suffered from a chronic bent toward self-destructiveness, however, and much of his poetry explored the processes, purpose, and frustrations of the poetic sensibility confronting raw experience head-on in highly charged verbal arenas.
“The Broken Tower,” whose title connotes a shattered or fractured vision, is composed in ten stanzas, each a perfect quatrain. In the very...
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