Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
Ebook24 pages13 minutes
A Study Guide for Liz Waldner's "Witness"
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this ebook
A Study Guide for Liz Waldner's "Witness," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
Read more from Gale
A Study Guide for Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go A study guide for Frank Herbert's "Dune" Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Study Guide for James Clavell's "Shogun" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for George Orwell's Animal Farm Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Louis Sachar's "Holes" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for James Joyce's "James Joyce's Ulysses" Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for Psychologists and Their Theories for Students: JEAN PIAGET Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Lois Lowry's The Giver Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for William Shakespeare's Macbeth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBusiness Plans Handbook: Furniture Businesses Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for John Rawls's "A Theory of Justice" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Psychologists and Their Theories for Students: ALBERT BANDURA Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBusiness Plans Handbook: Bakery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for George Orwell's 1984 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Business Plans Handbook: Auto Detailing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide (New Edition) for William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Wole Soyinka's "Death and the King's Horsemen" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for "Postmodernism" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide (New Edition) for F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Shirley Jackson's The Lottery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to A Study Guide for Liz Waldner's "Witness"
Related ebooks
A Study Guide for Pattiann Rogers's "The Greatest Grandeur" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Mary Jo Bang's "Allegory" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings[To] The Last [Be] Human Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Trial of Pythagoras & Other Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Craig Raine's "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Astral World: Magical Antiquarian, A Weiser Books Collection Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Study Guide for Maxine Kumin's "Address to the Angels" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for A. R. Ammons's "The City Limits" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Octavio Paz's "Sunstone" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMythic Astrology: Archetypes in the Horoscope Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOn Beauty and Being Just Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Study Guide for Anne Carson's "New Rule" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Richard Wilbur's "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAn Unexpected Journal: Medieval Minds: Volume 3, #3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Heartbeat of the Universe: Poems from Asimov’s Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2012–2022 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Brigit Pegeen Kelly's "The Satyr's Heart" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Quasar Enigmas Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Secrets of Tenet and the Sator Square: Christopher Nolan's ultimatum 2:0 for the Great Reset and our Twilight World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The Snowstorm" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCartographies of Scale (and Wing) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Rosanna Warren's "Lake" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Cosmic Tree Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGravity's Mysteries: From Ether to Dark Matter Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsArkania: A Lucid Odyssey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVerse and Worse: Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989-2009 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMoon Lore Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shakespeare and Contemporary Fiction: Theorizing Foundling and Lyric Plots Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOther Worlds: Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSpace Travel: A Science Fiction Writer's Guide Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEdge Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Teaching Methods & Materials For You
Better Grammar in 30 Minutes a Day Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Three Bears Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Speed Reading: Learn to Read a 200+ Page Book in 1 Hour: Mind Hack, #1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Speed Reading: How to Read a Book a Day - Simple Tricks to Explode Your Reading Speed and Comprehension Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Take Smart Notes. One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Personal Finance for Beginners - A Simple Guide to Take Control of Your Financial Situation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers: The Secret to Loving Teens Effectively Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jack Reacher Reading Order: The Complete Lee Child’s Reading List Of Jack Reacher Series Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5How to Think Like a Lawyer--and Why: A Common-Sense Guide to Everyday Dilemmas Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Success Principles(TM) - 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How To Be Hilarious and Quick-Witted in Everyday Conversation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Inside American Education Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Principles: Life and Work Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters--And How to Get It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Edition: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5From 150 to 179 on the LSAT Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Easy Spanish Stories For Beginners: 5 Spanish Short Stories For Beginners (With Audio) Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The 5 Love Languages of Children: The Secret to Loving Children Effectively Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related podcast episodes
PHILOSOPHICAL CURRENTS: Reading Wilber's "Excerpt A: An Integral Age at the Leading Edge" 0% found this document usefulS2 Ep9: The Electric Universe with Michael Armstrong 0% found this document usefulModeling the Cosmic Web - Dr. Oskar Elek UC Santa Cruz - The Cosmic Companion Nov. 3, 2020 0% found this document usefulMajor Jackson on the poetics of time (and how best, in life, to spend it) 0% found this document usefulEncyclopedia Galactica is a Guidebook to over 150 Spacefaring Alien Civilizations in our Galaxy 0% found this document usefulThe Ultraterrestrial Others: Examining the Evidence for a Species Beyond Normal Human Experience 0% found this document usefulPhosphine and Glycine, two Biomolecules, were Discovered in Venus's Atmosphere; here is what that means: 0% found this document usefulEp. 25: History & Fantasy (with Claire North, Rebecca Roanhorse, Ed McDonald & Vaishnavi Patel) 0% found this document usefulTelling tracks: A mini minds 0% found this document usefulWed. 01/26 - Dun, Dun, Duuuuun! 0% found this document usefulEpisode 2.6- Euclid: They wrote the Bible 0% found this document useful
Related articles
Book Reviews Horoscope GuideArticle
Book Reviews
Jun 4, 2020
3 min readTo the Last Be Human The MillionsArticle
To the Last Be Human
Sep 9, 2022
An excerpt from Robert Macfarlane's introduction to Jorie Graham's '[To] The Last [Be] Human.' The post To the Last Be Human appeared first on The Millions.
7 min readWriting Outer Space The MillionsArticle
Writing Outer Space
Apr 12, 2018
On the one hand, there is the world as we know it, the ground-level of human life and everything it entails: the whole arc of history, the transformation of our natural environment, nervous first dates over coffee. On the other hand, there is the rem
9 min readKara Walker, in Context ArtAsiaPacificArticle
Kara Walker, in Context
Mar 3, 2023
7 min readWhen Scientific Data Shapes Climate Literature Literary HubArticle
When Scientific Data Shapes Climate Literature
Jun 15, 2020
4 min readEternity In The Sky Tonight Australian Sky & TelescopeArticle
Eternity In The Sky Tonight
Oct 16, 2019
2 min readH0W-TO Star Struck Adirondack LifeArticle
H0W-TO Star Struck
Mar 30, 2023
5 min readEleven Ways Of Looking At A Sunset The MillionsArticle
Eleven Ways Of Looking At A Sunset
Oct 19, 2018
1. Cotton Mather, third-generation New England Puritan divine, wrote in his 1721 pamphlet India Christiana that “we have now seen the Sun Rising in the West.” Mather’s conceit was allegorical, yet an aspect of poetry’s power is its refusal to let you
14 min readClassical Corner Fortean TimesArticle
Classical Corner
Aug 11, 2022
4 min readA Mission to the Asteroid Psyche Is Her Dream Journey NautilusArticle
A Mission to the Asteroid Psyche Is Her Dream Journey
Oct 11, 2023
Lindy Elkins-Tanton is on a journey back in time, to unlock the secrets of the early solar system, and to ask some of humanity’s biggest questions about the universe and about ourselves. Elkins-Tanton, vice president of Arizona State University’s Int
4 min readDark Matter Is in Our DNA NautilusArticle
Dark Matter Is in Our DNA
Mar 16, 2018
6 min readWhy We Love to Anthropomorphize Physics NautilusArticle
Why We Love to Anthropomorphize Physics
Feb 26, 2017
6 min readWhat Makes a Poet Difficult? The Paris ReviewArticle
What Makes a Poet Difficult?
May 28, 2019
6 min readTowards What? The Threepenny ReviewArticle
Towards What?
Mar 1, 2019
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft. Riverhead Books, 2018, $26.00 cloth. OF THE deep and manifold fascinations to be found in Chris Marker’s 1983 docu-essay Sans Soleil, one of the chief formal characteristics to which my mind r
5 min readBooks BBC Sky at NightArticle
Books
Mar 24, 2022
4 min readThe Multiverse As Muse NautilusArticle
The Multiverse As Muse
May 11, 2017
In his short story “The Garden of Forking Paths,” the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges describes a present that can, at any moment, bifurcate into different futures—an endless labyrinth of worlds. Taken together they form, he writes, “an infinite
6 min read‘Notice All That Disappears’ The AtlanticArticle
‘Notice All That Disappears’
Apr 6, 2023
7 min readLong Exposure Writing MagazineArticle
Long Exposure
Feb 6, 2020
4 min readImagining the Anthropocene on Other Planets Literary HubArticle
Imagining the Anthropocene on Other Planets
Dec 13, 2019
9 min readEverything Is Relative New PhilosopherArticle
Everything Is Relative
Oct 29, 2018
4 min readWelcome To The Extraordinary World Of Quantum Field Theory BBC Science Focus MagazineArticle
Welcome To The Extraordinary World Of Quantum Field Theory
Mar 19, 2024
3 min readField Of View BBC Sky at NightArticle
Field Of View
Nov 19, 2020
2 min readThe Bizarre Planets That Could Be Humanity’s New Homes The AtlanticArticle
The Bizarre Planets That Could Be Humanity’s New Homes
Feb 13, 2019
6 min readASK Space All About SpaceArticle
ASK Space
Aug 13, 2020
5 min readBeyond the Narrative Arc The Paris ReviewArticle
Beyond the Narrative Arc
Mar 27, 2019
9 min readBeyond the Horizon of the Universe: Want to See Evidence of Other Universes? Just Look Up.: Want to see evidence of other universes? Just look up. NautilusArticle
Beyond the Horizon of the Universe: Want to See Evidence of Other Universes? Just Look Up.: Want to see evidence of other universes? Just look up.
Oct 3, 2013
10 min readSomething New The Threepenny ReviewArticle
Something New
Mar 1, 2018
4 min readMaybe Poets Are, in Fact, Aliens Literary HubArticle
Maybe Poets Are, in Fact, Aliens
Apr 11, 2018
7 min readLa tomba di Einstein / Einstein Tomb DomusArticle
La tomba di Einstein / Einstein Tomb
Jan 23, 2023
2 min readLessons From The Stars: How To Live On A Climate-Changed World NPRArticle
Lessons From The Stars: How To Live On A Climate-Changed World
Sep 13, 2017
3 min read
Reviews for A Study Guide for Liz Waldner's "Witness"
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
A Study Guide for Liz Waldner's "Witness" - Gale
1
Witness
Liz Waldner
2000
Introduction
Liz Waldner's Witness
is the final poem in the fifth section (Triangle
) of Waldner's Euclidian-inspired A Point Is That Which Has No Part (2000), following sections named Point,
Line,
Circle,
and Square.
Developing an extended metaphor that likens the coming of dawn (and the new day) to a wild horse, Witness
exemplifies what is strongest in Waldner's poetry: diction, intellectualism, and an appreciation of science and nature. The combination of poetry and science characterizes much of Waldner's poetry. In her later work Saving the Appearances (2004), for instance, she uses Plato's idea, which was later applied by Copernicus, that there is a fundamental spirit that links the empirical world (its appearances) and the revelations it
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1