The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Delmore Schwartz
- First Published: 1938
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Fear, Human behavior, Life, biological, Bears, Animals, Hunger, Human anatomy
The Poem
Delmore Schwartz has been described by the editors of The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry (1973) as a poet concerned about “divisions within his own consciousness,” and “The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me” dramatizes that division. In the poem, Schwartz personifies his own body and gives it a life apart from his consciousness. The speaker of the poem is actually the disembodied mental consciousness of the poet, who offers observations on the physical part of his humanity as if it were a separate being. To dramatize the differences between mind and body,...
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