Sleeping in the Woods (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: David Wagoner
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Nature, Forests or forestry, Sleep, Camping, campers, or campgrounds
The Poem
“Sleeping in the Woods” is a poem composed of forty-eight lines of free verse that seems to ebb and flow on the page. The gerund in the title (sleeping), along with other verbals (participles and gerunds usually ending “-ing”), is common in David Wagoner’s poems and notably in their titles. The first poem in the collection Sleeping in the Woods is “The Singing Lesson,” and other titles in that book include “Talking to Barr Creek,” “Beginning,” “Living in the Ruins,” “An Offering for Dungeness Bay,” and “Raging.” Discounting such...
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