Tar (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: C. K. Williams
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Narrative
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: 1970’s, Journalism or journalists, Accidents, Death or dying, Disasters, Nuclear accidents
The Poem
“Tar” is a poem divided into three stanzas, set around the poet’s own experience of the Three Mile Island nuclear-reactor accident. In March, 1979, this accident threw many people around the nation (and especially people in Pennsylvania, where the poet lived and where the reactor is located) into a state of alarm over the danger of a full-scale nuclear meltdown that would have unleashed a cloud of deadly radioactive gases over a wide area.
As the poem begins, the juxtaposition of the nuclear accident, mentioned in the first line, with the workmen who are...
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