Golfers (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Israel Pincu Lazarovitch
- First Published: 1955
- Type of Work: Satire
- Genres: Satire, Poetry
- Subjects: Virginity or virgins, Good and evil, Sports, Naivete, WASPs, Clubs, social, Chastity, Golf
The Poem
“Golfers” is a short poem in free verse. It comprises three stanzas of three lines each, a parenthetical single-line stanza, and a closing couplet. It belongs to one of the most intensely creative and productive periods in Irving Layton’s long publishing career as a poet—the middle to late 1950’s and the early 1960’s—when he wrote some of the best and most memorable of his poems. Many of his poems of this period celebrate the creative urge so central to Layton’s life and writing. The central observation of “Golfers” is one that is voiced over and...
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