Legend (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Hart Crane
- First Published: 1926
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Legends, Mirrors or lenses
The Poem
“Legend” is a short poem of five stanzas of varying length. It is written in free verse and has elegiac qualities evidenced in the seriousness of the emotional statement being made about its topic: Hart Crane’s lament for a homosexual experience or (more likely) relationship recalled from his youth. His lost love has now become “legend” to him, and the poet ponders the meanings of this passing.
Although the poem is written in the first person, the poet refers explicitly to himself one time only; he creates an aura of subtlety about his work by couching...
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