A Map of Montana in Italy (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Hogan
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Roads, streets, or highways, Emotions, Native Americans or American Indians, Violence, Westerns, Italy or Italians, Pollution, Nostalgia, Maps
The Poem
“A Map of Montana in Italy” is a lyric poem in free verse, arranged into a single stanza of thirty-four lines. It is the opening poem in Richard Hugo’s fourth book of poems, The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir, and it is dedicated to Marjorie Carrier.
The poem is written in the first person, in the present tense, the voice distinctively Hugo’s. It is rather flat in tone, with subdued emotions. Although the syntax is simple and rather prosaic, the poem’s style is tight, direct, and without extraneous words. The situation of the poem is that Hugo...
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