Fifty Males Sitting Together (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Bly
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Gender roles, Identity, Rites or ceremonies, Men
Bly's poem “Fifty Males Sitting Together,” first published in The Man in the Black Coat Turns (1981), embodies a theme that occupied him throughout most of the 1980's and beyond: the significance and inadequacies of being male in Western culture. In a preface to The Man in the Black Coat Turns, Bly claims that in its poems he had “fished in male waters, which [he] experienced as deep and cold but containing and nourishing some secret and moving life down below.” Bly's concern with maleness stems from his anthropological study of the Great Mother. It is Bly's...
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