One Bone to Another (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Vasko Popa
- First Published: 1956
- Type of Work: Poetic sequence
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric sequence
- Subjects: Freedom, Love or romance, Fear, Fate or fatalism, Life and death, Mortality, Skeleton, Human anatomy, Caves
The Poem
“One Bone to Another” is a cycle of seven short poems. The title of the cycle establishes the mood and alludes to the personae of the poems, two bones that engage in an intimate dialogue about the human condition in their subterranean mise-en-scène. The titles of the individual poems indicate the setting and order of the events in the cycle. These events are depicted as occurring in the immediate present; and the bones express their reactions to them in the first-person plural or first-person singular. As the events unfold, each poem marks a shift in the...
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