Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    A Study Guide for Carolyn Forche's "The Garden Shukkei-En"
    A Study Guide for Carolyn Forche's "The Garden Shukkei-En"
    A Study Guide for Carolyn Forche's "The Garden Shukkei-En"
    Ebook26 pages16 minutes

    A Study Guide for Carolyn Forche's "The Garden Shukkei-En"

    By Gale and Cengage

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    A Study Guide for Carolyn Forche's "The Garden Shukkei-En," 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 26, 2016
    ISBN9781535836746
    A Study Guide for Carolyn Forche's "The Garden Shukkei-En"

    Read more from Gale

    Related to A Study Guide for Carolyn Forche's "The Garden Shukkei-En"

    Related ebooks

    Literary Criticism For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Love Is An Act Of Resistance

      Nov 1, 2020

      IN LITTLE BIG BULLY, award-winning writer Heid E. Erdrich (Ojibwe, enrolled at Turtle Mountain) turns to poetry for resilience, using well-crafted imagery, finely tuned language and sharp humor to navigate both stories of individual abuse and systemi

      3 min read

    • Article

      Revolutions In The Margins

      May 1, 2020

      Revolutions In The Margins
      5 min read

    • Article

      Dear Poetry

      Dec 14, 2022

      Dear Poetry
      9 min read

    • Article

      Trail of Tears

      Jan 7, 2020

      Trail of Tears
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Time Is Now

      Aug 18, 2021

      Suggested Reading: What About the Baby? Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August) by Alice McDermott The author of eight novels, three of which were named Pulitzer Prize finalists, including Charming Billy, which won the

      2 min read

    • Article

      TS Eliot’s Women: The Unsung Female Voices Of The Waste Land

      Oct 30, 2022

      A red lever-arch folder, well-loved and battered, sits near me in my office. Throughout my adult life, it has teetered on shelves in various homes, my university dissertation about the women in TS Eliot’s best-known poem, The Waste Land, lying inside

      9 min read

    • Article

      Where Is Poetry Now?

      Aug 15, 2018

      Where Is Poetry Now?
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Best Poetry Books Of 2022

      Dec 3, 2022

      The year began with Joelle Taylor’s C+nto & Othered Poems (Westbourne) winning the TS Eliot prize. This powerful account of butch lesbian communities is a vital read, with a striking insistence on claiming the physical space of club and bar as a way

      3 min read

    • Article

      Psychedelic Survival

      Jan 5, 2022

      A Girl’s Life In The Incredible String Band Rose Simpson Strange Attractor Press 2021 Pb, 264pp, £17.50, ISBN 9781907222672 The Incredible String Band’s short career, 1966-1971, saw the release of eight albums and a unique performance legacy. Combini

      8 min read

    • Article

      The Last Poets: Chastisement

      Nov 1, 2021

      The Last Poets: Chastisement
      9 min read

    • Article

      Twelve Poems to Compel a Poet

      Dec 14, 2022

      1. King Lear, Edmund’s soliloquy (Act 1, Scene 2) by William Shakespeare. Edmund was my Shakespeare villain crush, and his soliloquy lives permanently in my head. Hear the crescendo: “villains by necessity; fools by / heavenly compulsion; knaves, thi

      3 min read

    • Article

      Native American Poetry Anthology Vibrates With Powerful Voices

      Sep 16, 2020

      U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo serves as lead editor of this new collection, which showcases a range of poems as vast as the continent.

      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for A Study Guide for Carolyn Forche's "The Garden Shukkei-En"

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      A Study Guide for Carolyn Forche's "The Garden Shukkei-En" - Gale

      1

      The Garden Shukkei-en

      Carolyn Forché

      1988

      Introduction

      Carolyn Forché initially published The Garden Shukkei-en in Provincetown Arts in 1988 and included it in her third collection, The Angel of History (1994). The poem was also shown in conjunction with Danz Macabre photographic art exhibit at the School of Art, Arizona State University at Tempe and is included in the portfolio of show photographs, So to Speak. Forché takes the title and epigraph of The Angel of History from Walter Benjamin's essay, Theses on the Philosophy of History. In haunting disembodied voices, the poems in the collection detail the atrocities of various twentieth-century horrors such as the Holocaust, the bombing of Hiroshima, and the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. In The Garden Shukkei-en, which appears towards the end of the collection, a Japanese woman who survived the bombing recounts the horrors of that time and how it has come to shape the ways in which she remembers the past and interacts with the world. Known as a strolling garden, Shukkei-en is dotted with islets of various sizes and surrounded by a range of hillocks on its north shore. The name Shukkei-en means the Garden of Condensed Scenic Beauty. It was heavily damaged when the Enola Gay, an American Boeing B-29 bomber, dropped an atomic bomb dubbed Little Boy on Hiroshima at 8:15 on the morning of August 6,

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1