Ethics (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Linda Olenic
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Values, Truth, Ethics, Students or student life
The Poem
“Ethics” raises a number of significant philosophical issues, and it does so in language that is clear and direct and in a voice that immediately elicits an emotional and intellectual response from readers. The poem’s title, like its subject, is rather abstract, but Linda Pastan immediately and consistently grounds the poem in her unique narrative voice.
As a student in a philosophy course years ago, the speaker says in the poem’s opening lines, she was given one of those difficult questions that ethics teachers like to pose—what are often called...
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