Death’s Blue-Eyed Girl (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Linda Olenic
- First Published: 1970
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Girls, Children, Magic or magicians, Death or dying, Creative process, Youth, Life and death
The Poem
“Death’s Blue-Eyed Girl” is a short poem in accentual-syllabic meter. Its fourteen lines are divided into two stanzas. The first four-line stanza introduces the thematic question of the poem by way of two related similes; it also identifies the poem’s intended audience and establishes a meditative mood. The second stanza attempts to answer the question posed at the beginning of the poem: When does death become a real presence in life? This stanza is a meditation on death and one’s shifting perceptions of death and loss. The ideas in the poem are developed...
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