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A Study Guide for Dana Gioia's "The Litany"
A Study Guide for Dana Gioia's "The Litany"
A Study Guide for Dana Gioia's "The Litany"
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A Study Guide for Dana Gioia's "The Litany"

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A Study Guide for Dana Gioia's "The Litany," 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 dateAug 26, 2016
ISBN9781535837996
A Study Guide for Dana Gioia's "The Litany"

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    A Study Guide for Dana Gioia's "The Litany" - Gale

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    The Litany

    Dana Gioia

    2001

    Introduction

    Dana Gioia's collection of poetry Interrogations at Noon (2001), which includes his poem The Litany, has been praised for its lyricism as well as its classic sense of subject and theme. One of the strongest poems in the collection, The Litany makes a powerful statement of love and loss and of the search for a way to comprehend the nature of suffering. These became common themes in Gioia's poetry after the tragic death of his son at four months of age. Gioia's verse collection The Gods of Winter (1991) expresses his pain over his son's death; his later work is less personal but still focuses on the subject of

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