North American Time (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Adrienne Rich
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: History, Language or languages, Authors or writers, Poetry or poets, Multiculturalism, Women
While continuing to explore themes taken up in other poems (such as the power of language), “North American Time” places these concerns in the context not of new discoveries but of continued struggle. As in A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far, Rich rejects the Romantic emphasis on certain peaks of perception and, instead, focuses on the daily struggle to change the world through quiet strength and resistance. In Your Native Land, Your Life, Rich continues to explore the ways that common experience, especially the natural and indigenous scenes of her “native...
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