To No One in Particular (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Marvin Bell
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Language or languages, Communication, Speech
The Poem
“To No One in Particular” is a poem in free verse. The title functions much like the “To Whom It May Concern” salutation of a letter that carries a message to anyone that can make use of it. It is written from a first-person perspective with nothing to indicate that the poet is speaking through a persona (a character distinctly different from the poet who functions as the narrator of the poem). Both the voice and the ideas expressed in the poem are consistent with those in many other poems by Marvin Bell, so it seems reasonable to assume that there is no...
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