A Study Guide for Jane Kenyon's "Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School"
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Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School
Jane Kenyon
1986
Introduction
Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School
first appeared in 1986 in Jane Kenyon’s second volume of poems, The Boat of Quiet Hours, and again in her collection of new and selected poems, Otherwise (1996). In both prose and poems, Kenyon readily confesses that math was her weakest subject. This poem recalls a humiliating moment in elementary school when academic difficulty leads to punishment, not help. In her case, it also leads to an inner change, a heart newly hardened against authority.
In the short span of this three-stanza, 25-line poem we learn much about the settings, both outer and inner, for the change that takes place.
Aside from the title, the poem does not specifically identify the nature of her trouble, nor does it directly track the processes of her inner transformation. The poem delivers this information
obliquely. As a result, the context of her trouble with math
expands in the widening rings of sensory details, such as the smell / of sweeping compound,
the startling image of Christ on Ann’s blue bookmark, and the sound of a Haydn melody hummed in the furnace closet. These indirections help tell a story far larger than the central issue or event itself. Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School
is typical of Kenyon’s attention to a single moment, and of her ability to make it present through sensory detail and clear, spare language. The poem provides insight into the mind of a child: what she perceives, and how she copes with adult perceptions.
Author Biography
When Jane Kenyon died from leukemia on April 23, 1995, one month short of her 48th birthday, she had lived nearly twenty years in rural Wilmot, New Hampshire, with her husband, poet Donald Hall. Eagle Pond
had been the home of Hall’s family for generations, and it became the setting from which her mature poetry emerged. The farmhouse and countryside around Wilmot reminded Kenyon of her Michigan childhood before its landscape became paved over and subdivided: The move to New Hampshire was a restoration of a kind of paradise,
she told an interviewer.
Kenyon was born on May 23, 1947, and grew up in an old house crowded with pictures, books, and music
on the rural outskirts of