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A Study Guide for Fleda Brown's "The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives"
A Study Guide for Fleda Brown's "The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives"
A Study Guide for Fleda Brown's "The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives"
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A Study Guide for Fleda Brown's "The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives"

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A Study Guide for Fleda Brown's "The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives," 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.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 2, 2016
ISBN9781535840620
A Study Guide for Fleda Brown's "The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives"

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    A Study Guide for Fleda Brown's "The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives" - Gale

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    The Women Who Loved Elvis all their Lives

    Fleda Brown

    2004

    Introduction

    In the title poem of her 2004 collection, The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives, Fleda Brown explores contemporary culture's obsession with the idolized celebrity figures of music and film. Moving smoothly from one point of view to another, and pushing the limits of the imagination to allow the voice of a dead Elvis Presley to be heard, Brown reveals how one of the twentieth century's most indelible cultural icons can become a mirror in which a culture can review and reimagine its priorities, anxieties, and most troubling fissures. Balancing biographical, musical, and cultural focal points, Brown's The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives transcends the prosaic details about the King's life or the legend of Graceland. The poem reaches instead toward a wider intellectual exploration of Elvis as icon and the face (and voice) of an entire generation. More specifically, this is a poem in which a generation collides with itself, as the man who became a symbol of a generation's passion and energy is portrayed shaking hands with Richard Nixon, a president most likely to be seen as the antithesis of that youthful

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