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A Study Guide for Amy Clampitt's "Syrinx," 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.
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A Study Guide for Amy Clampitt's "Syrinx" - Gale
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Syrinx
Amy Clampitt
1994
Introduction
Although she was of an older generation than most of the hippies of the 1960s, middle-aged Amy Clampitt was an enthusiastic participant in the youthful counterculture of that era, and she was one of its most eloquent literary spokeswomen. Using elegant, reasoned language, steeped in a romantic tradition based on centuries of human culture, Clampitt's poem Syrinx
attacks, denies, and undermines human language and human culture in an essentially countercultural rebellion, even though the poet herself cannot completely throw off the shackles of culture that dictate the form of her own work. Syrinx
devalues human language as a failed, inferior copy of the sounds of the natural world.
Paradoxically, Clampitt's attack on culture is woven from the very cultured world of her own life, seizing on material from her pastimes of birdwatching, listening to opera, and reading in ancient Greek. Clampitt's valuing nature over culture draws on a reaction to romanticism that produced a counterculture in nineteenth-century Germany. That tradition became the direct ancestor of the 1960s counterculture that Clampitt embraced.
Author Biography
Clampitt was born on her father's farm in New Providence, Iowa, on June 15, 1920. Growing up in a Quaker family fostered in Clampitt pacifism and self-control that outlived her adherence to the religion. Her father and grandfather both published memoirs and had large and varied libraries in the midst of the prairie. Clampitt considered herself a writer as far back as she could recall. Largely ignored (though not neglected) by her family, Clampitt slipped away to Grinnell College, where she earned a degree in English in 1941. She moved to New York, with a fellowship at Columbia University. She soon abandoned formal education, though, and went to work as a secretary at Oxford University Press. She rose quickly to the editorial staff and won a tour of Europe in an inhouse writing competition. After returning to New York, Clampitt quit her job and wrote full time, producing three novels that have never been published. She worked through the 1950s and early 1960s as
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