How the World Works (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Albert Goldbarth
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Verse essay
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
The Poem
Albert Goldbarth’s “How the World Works: An Essay” is a blend of vivid narration, verse essay, and meditation about the interrelation of the various cycles and circles of life, from the very large to the very small. Its form—including variation between unrhymed lines as long as eighteen or as short as ten syllables—incorporates the contrast or cycling within the poem between macrocosm, the very large, and microcosm, the very small. While also considering small incidents in the speaker’s life, the poem, a small thing in the universe, considers the grand...
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