Southern Crescent (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Dave Smith
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
The Poem
Dave Smith’s “Southern Crescent” is composed of five sections varying in length from twenty-nine to forty lines each; additionally, a six-line epigraph introduces the poem and appears before the numbered sections start. The poem is an amalgamation of elegiac, narrative, and lyrical poetry. The epigraph is in fact a quotation from a railroad brochure dated 1891 and is an advertisement for the Crescent, a train whose route takes it from Washington, D.C., across the Potomac River and into the mountains of Virginia and other places to the south.
The...
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