The Quality of Sprawl (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Les A. Murray
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Class consciousness, Poetry or poets, Farms, farmers, or farming, Popes or papacy, Automobiles, Australia or Australians, Geopolitics, Lumber or lumbering
The Poem
Sprawl commonly denotes an unevenly extended spatial position lacking visual order, as in “urban sprawl.” This fifty-line free-verse poem adapts the usage to identify a behavioral stance in which individuals exceed the limits of conventional behavior to achieve an end. The poem contains eight stanzas, each of which is an independent unit of illustration. The word “Sprawl,” which begins each stanza, is the subject of a present-tense statement of what sprawl is or does contrasted with its negative image.
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