The Dream Songs (Masterplots II: Poetry Series)
At a glance:
- Author: John Allyn Smith
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Poetic sequence
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Parents and children
The Poem
The Dream Songs is a sequence of 385 poems grouped into seven numbered but untitled sections. Each poem is eighteen lines in length and divided into three six-line stanzas, variously rhymed. The title of the sequence suggests much about the methods and tensions of the poems. Originating in the primal and unrestrained associations of the unconscious mind, in dreams, they struggle to find conscious and communicable forms in the shapes of song. To compose his furiously contemporary sequence, John Berryman reached back to what is perhaps the oldest source of poetic...
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