In the Field (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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The title “In the Field” is an ambiguous reference to the two halves of the poem. The poem chronicles two walks in the same field, the first at night (the speaker looks at the stars), and the second one on a sunny day (the speaker looks at the flowers of the field). The poem has both a speaker and someone spoken to, who is probably a wife or lover, and the poem is a looking back at the events delineated there.
The simple stanza form—four lines each of trimeter, pentameter, tetrameter, and trimeter, rhyming abab—gives the poem a classical feel with a personal...
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