At Luca Signorelli’s Resurrection of the Body (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jorie Graham
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Free verse, Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Europe or Europeans, Art or artists, Religion, Beauty, Painting or painters, Sixteenth century, Pictures, Italy or Italians, End of the world, Resurrection, Aesthetics, Mind and body
The Poem
“At Luca Signorelli’s Resurrection of the Body” is a long, free-verse poem of 106 lines divided into eighteen stanzas; the first seventeen stanzas have 6 lines and the final stanza contains 4 lines. The lines of this poem are mostly short and vary from two to six syllables per line, although some lines have as many as eight or nine syllables. The title immediately locates the poem’s speaker in front of a fresco by Luca Signorelli, an Umbrian painter known for depicting muscular bodies in violent action, capturing them in a wide variety of poses and...
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