The Owl King (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: James Dickey
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry, Fantasy, Animal tale
- Subjects: Parents and children, Blindness or blind persons, Religion, Fathers, Forests or forestry, Owls
The eight-page poem “The Owl King” is arranged in three parts. Part 1, “The Call,” is the father's hopeful search for his blind son. This one-page section is characteristic of much of Dickey's poetry in several ways. It is written in eight-line stanzas, for example, with the first line recurring at the end as a refrain in italics. Many of Dickey's poems, especially the earlier ones, are told in stanzas of five to eight lines, and the refrain is fairly commonly used (examples include “Dover: Believing in Kings,” “The String,” and “On the Hill Below the Lighthouse”)....
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