Remedies, Maladies, Reasons (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Mona Van Duyn
- First Published: 1970
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Children, Mothers, Parents and children, Love or romance, Punishment, Medicine, Health, Oracles, Folk medicine, Alternative medicine, Odors, Only children
The Poem
“Remedies, Maladies, Reasons” is written in a loose iambic pentameter form and is composed of fifty-eight couplets that rhyme obliquely. The last line in the poem, which rhymes with the previous couplet, stands alone. There are three sections in the poem: The first thirty-six couplets form the first part; couplets 37 through 58 compose the second; and the single concluding line is a separate section of its own. The title serves as a synopsis of the poem: The speaker searches for reasons why her mother was so obsessed with her daughter’s and her own physical...
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