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    A Study Guide for Ellen Bryant Voigt's "The Lotus Flowers"
    A Study Guide for Ellen Bryant Voigt's "The Lotus Flowers"
    A Study Guide for Ellen Bryant Voigt's "The Lotus Flowers"
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    A Study Guide for Ellen Bryant Voigt's "The Lotus Flowers"

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    A Study Guide for Ellen Bryant Voigt's "The Lotus Flowers," 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
    ISBN9781535838108
    A Study Guide for Ellen Bryant Voigt's "The Lotus Flowers"

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      A Study Guide for Ellen Bryant Voigt's "The Lotus Flowers" - Gale

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      The Lotus Flowers

      Ellen Bryant Voigt

      1987

      Introduction

      Ellen Bryant Voigt's The Lotus Flowers is the title poem in her 1987 collection. Both the collection and the poem focus on Voigt's rural upbringing in Virginia. All the included poems are relatively short and filled with imagery related to nature. Most are also narrative poems, seemingly telling a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end. In this manner, The Lotus Flowers is a fitting title poem; it represents all of the stylistic and thematic qualities inherent in the collection in which it appears. In fact, The Lotus Flowers is also representative of the major themes that appear throughout Voigt's entire body of work. These include the loss of innocence, fate, mortality, and the beauty and threat of nature. Stylistically, The Lotus Flowers (and the collection in which it appears) stands apart from Voigt's work. Where The Lotus Flowers and its eponymous collection are narrative (containing a story arc), most of Voigt's work is lyric (less structured and more musical). Her narrative poems have been favorably compared to those of Robert Frost.

      Appearing in the third of seven poetry collections, The Lotus Flowers was written at the height of Voigt's career. Her work was best known during the late 1980s and into the 1990s and is read by students of contemporary poetry. A 2000 edition of The Lotus Flowers, released by Carnegie-Mellon University Press, remained in print as of

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