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    A Study Guide for Amy Lowell's "The Taxi"
    A Study Guide for Amy Lowell's "The Taxi"
    A Study Guide for Amy Lowell's "The Taxi"
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    A Study Guide for Amy Lowell's "The Taxi"

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    A Study Guide for Amy Lowell's "The Taxi," 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
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535839952
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      A Study Guide for Amy Lowell's "The Taxi" - Gale

      08

      The Taxi

      Amy Lowell

      1914

      Introduction

      Amy Lowell's poem The Taxi, which appeared in her collection Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (1914), is a short poem filled with vivid images that express the poet's passion. In twelve brief lines, readers are made to feel the anguish of the speaker of the poem as she leaves her lover's side. Though the taxi in the title is not mentioned directly in the poem, the image of a taxi pulling the speaker away is central to the poem's effect. Imagery in poetry was important to Lowell, who was heavily influenced by the imagist movement, which was developing in Europe during her early entry into the poetic world.

      Aside from using powerful images in her poetry, Lowell also was fond of the free verse form. In The Taxi, Lowell uses neither a rhyming scheme nor a strict, conventional meter. She was often criticized during her career for not using conventional poetic forms, as free verse was viewed as being more like prose than poetry.

      The Taxi offers one image after another, pulling the reader deeper and deeper into the suffering that accompanies the speaker's departure. Though many critics at the time did not approve of the form of Lowell's poetry, many praised her for the ability to express her passion through poetry, as she does in this poem.

      Author Biography

      Born to affluent parents on February 9, 1874, in Brookline, Massachusetts, Amy Lowell led a privileged but challenged life. Wealth and social status were assured for her at birth, as both sides of her family were part of the top echelon of Boston society. Her father, Augustus, was a prominent businessman, and her mother, Katherine, an

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