The Teeth Mother Naked at Last (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
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The Poem
“The Teeth Mother Naked at Last” is a long, frequently subjective, meditation on the American involvement in the Vietnam War. It describes the “harm” the war has done to America and to Americans “inwardly.” The poem is divided into seven numbered and self-contained sections ranging in length (in the final Selected Poems version) from eight to fifty-three lines. Each section is divided into stanzas of uneven lengths. Several sections are further divided into subsections, separated by asterisks, and section 3 contains two paragraphs of prose. One part...
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