The Whip (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Creeley
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Love or romance, Guilt, Emotions, Adultery, Women, Sleep, Touch
The Poem
Many of the poems Robert Creeley wrote in the 1950’s concerned some intense moment or passage in a man/woman, often husband/wife, relationship. Woman appears in several guises in these poems—sometimes, as here, in two (at least) in the same poem. The reader finds the woman who is in possession, so to speak, possibly the wife, asleep. The man, her lover, perhaps her husband, tosses and turns, unable to rid his mind of its preoccupations, particularly with another woman, to whom he has also apparently made love, and who is even now not far off. Finally, he complains...
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