Laguna Blues (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Wright
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
The Poem
Charles Wright’s “Laguna Blues” contains three stanzas, each with five lines, which attempt to identify the vague reasons for the poet’s general malaise. Even though the poet never discovers what causes his unease in the course of this poem, he is left with a description of the California landscape around him and the quality of that uneasiness.
Although details in the poem place the setting in the coastal town of Laguna Beach, California, where Wright was living at the time he wrote it, the poem is meant to reveal more insight into the poet’s emotional...
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