For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Hart Crane
- First Published: 1923
- Type of Work: Narrative
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Mythology or myths
The Poem
Hart Crane’s “For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen” is in three parts, with a total of 139 lines. Like much of Crane’s poetry, it gives the appearance of a rigid, formal structure on the page. Yet, the blank verse lines that he most often employs are seldom perfect pentameters; furthermore, Crane does not hesitate to yield to the pleasures of a rhymed couplet as the spirit moves him, and stanzas in the highly evocative middle section are clearly influenced by free-verse styles typical of the time in which Crane wrote.
The poem is typical of the literary...
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