Meditation on a Memoir (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: J. V. Cunningham
- First Published: 1945
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Memory, Autobiography, Dreams, Self-confidence, Biography, Meditation
The Poem
“Meditation on a Memoir” is a brief poem of sixteen lines that are arranged in four stanzas of four lines each. The meter is iambic dimeter, a very short and unusual metrical line. The first stanza contains three questions, the next two stanzas respond to those questions, and the final stanza resolves the poem with another question. The title announces both the approach (meditation) and the subject (memoir). To meditate is to think deeply on the significance of a subject, and it is not the usual poetic mode in J. V. Cunningham’s work. “Memoir” is a word that...
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