The Far Field (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Theodore Roethke
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Meditation/ode
- Genres: Poetry, Ode, Meditation
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Twentieth century, Nature, Poetry or poets, Dreams, Spiritual life or spirituality, Death or dying, Birds, Life, philosophy of
The Poem
“The Far Field” is the title poem of Theodore Roethke’s posthumously published 1964 collection. Like the other five poems in his “North American sequence,” “The Far Field” is a visionary poem about how meditation itself can help individuals transcend their fears about mortality. “The Far Field” is written in free verse, which is undulating lines of various lengths with no set regular metrical or rhyme patterns; it is divided into four unequal sections.
Part 1 starts with an archetypal dream sequence about journeys toward death. This bleak car...
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