Woman at Lit Window (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Eamon Grennan
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Women, Light, Vision
The Poem
“Woman at Lit Window” is a reflective inquiry in which poet Eamon Grennan considers the possibilities of accurately rendering the details and nuances of a woman he is observing from outside her window while assessing the factors that make it impossible for him to ever quite capture the full dimensions of his vision. The poem consists of three stanzas of roughly equal length (ten, eleven, and twelve lines) divided by a partition of blank space but joined by the continuation of a statement after the line break. Its mood of quiet reflection is established by the...
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