Reading Lao Tzu Again in the New Year (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Wright
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Free verse, Poetry, Meditation
The Poem
“Reading Lao Tzu Again in the New Year” is a poem of middle length (forty-seven lines) written in free verse. The title is somewhat misleading, since neither Lao Tzu nor whatever work of his Charles Wright has been reading is mentioned in the poem. Instead, the reading of Lao Tzu’s poetry and his view of nature seem to trigger a meditation on the end of the year and the absences or emptiness in nature and humankind. The speaker of the poem is the same speaker who appears in all the poems of Chickamauga and Wright’s next book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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