The One Day (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Donald Hall
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Poetic sequence
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric sequence
- Subjects: History, Self-discovery, Memory, Parents and children, Love or romance, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Farms, farmers, or farming, Fathers, Death or dying, Drug addiction or addicts, Prophecy or prophets, Sculpting or sculptors, Middle age, Houses, mansions, or manors, Construction or construction workers, Orchards, Psychotherapy or psychotherapists
The Poem
The One Day is a book-length poem of sixty-three pages divided into three major sections: “Shrubs Burnt Away,” “Four Classic Texts: Prophecy, Pastoral, History, Eclogue,” and “To Build a House.”
Donald Hall bases The One Day on the “house of consciousness”—the idea that one mind might express many contradictory voices and different points of view. Its tripartite organization roughly corresponds to French moral essayist Michel Eyquem de Montaigne’s Essais (1580, 1588, 1595; The Essays, 1603), traditionally held to...
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