Dec 16, 2009

Fifty Males Sitting Together | Fifty Males Sitting Together

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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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Fifty Males Sitting Together | Fifty Males Sitting Together

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