In Goya’s greatest scenes we seem to see (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Art or artists, War, Painting or painters, Pictures, Spain or Spanish people, Napoleonic Wars
The Poem
Within a few months in 1956, Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote twenty-nine poems that he envisioned as a unit. In his second book of poetry, A Coney Island of the Mind, they appear numbered, without titles. Number 1, “In Goya’s greatest scenes we seem to see,” is a lyric written in open form, having no regular rhyme, meter, or line length. Placed on the page so as to have a visual effect, the poem has six sections of varying length, ranging from twenty lines to three words. (Anthologies vary in the way they present the poem, not always retaining the original...
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