My Mother Would Be a Falconress (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edward Howard Duncan
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Child rearing or parenting, Mothers, Parents and children, Power, personal or social, Flight, Separation, Hunting or hunters, Falconry
The Poem
“My Mother Would Be a Falconress” is a seventy-one-line lyric divided into fourteen verse paragraphs of varying lengths. The poem looks and sounds traditional by Robert Duncan’s mid-career (1956-1968) standards. The medium length of the work developed out of its underlying compositional law; the text has been generated concentrically from a core statement that stresses again and again the indestructible relation between the speaker—the poet’s alter ego—and his mother’s will. There is an unwavering acknowledgment on the speaker’s part of his mother’s...
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