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    A Study Guide for Howard Nemerov's "The Phoenix"
    A Study Guide for Howard Nemerov's "The Phoenix"
    A Study Guide for Howard Nemerov's "The Phoenix"
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    A Study Guide for Howard Nemerov's "The Phoenix"

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    A Study Guide for Howard Nemerov's "The Phoenix," 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 dateAug 19, 2016
    ISBN9781535838856
    A Study Guide for Howard Nemerov's "The Phoenix"

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      A Study Guide for Howard Nemerov's "The Phoenix" - Gale

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      The Phoenix

      Howard Nemerov

      1950

      Introduction

      The Phoenix concludes Howard Nemerov’s second collection of poetry, Guide to the Ruins. Its plainspoken and flat tone, its short lines, and its subject matter of death and rebirth perfectly suit an end poem. It is not only the final poem in this book; Nemerov felt so strongly about the poem’s tone of finality that he also used it to close his popular 1960 collection New and Selected Poems. The Phoenix is sparse, ominous, and frightening, calling forth a dead world of mythological beasts and powers of which humans no longer are able to conceive. Ironically, for a poem that conjures up such a sense of foreboding and finality, the poem is one of the few in the book that does not end with a period—it just fades away, letting its final utterance (the word Word) resonate in the reader’s

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