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    A Study Guide for Anthony Dey Hoagland's "Social Life"
    A Study Guide for Anthony Dey Hoagland's "Social Life"
    A Study Guide for Anthony Dey Hoagland's "Social Life"
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    A Study Guide for Anthony Dey Hoagland's "Social Life"

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    A Study Guide for Anthony Dey Hoagland's "Social Life," 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
    ISBN9781535833509
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      A Study Guide for Anthony Dey Hoagland's "Social Life" - Gale

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      Social Life

      Tony Hoagland

      1999

      Introduction

      Tony Hoagland's poetry focuses primarily on contemporary issues in middle and upper class America, especially in middle class suburbia. His personal experience in this environment sometimes shows up in poems as straightforward autobiography and other times manifests itself in a generic you or they address, suggesting a shared experience within an entire generation. From politics and adultery to religion and sex, Hoagland's themes often resound of daytime talk shows and evening news, but the poems are also lined with an undercurrent of self-reflection and disillusionment, anger and hope. Social Life, which first appeared in the spring 1999 issue of Ploughshares, aptly expresses the poet's take on contemporary society and behavior—here, in the form of party goers—but also offers an unusual shift in setting for his work. Typically content to deal with the material, plastic world of things and the people who use them, Hoagland searches for something different in Social Life, something found only in the serenity, beauty, and wonder of the natural world.

      Author Biography

      Tony Hoagland was born Anthony Dey Hoagland on November 19, 1953, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Very little biographical information as of 2003 was available on Hoagland, yet scholars of his work point to various known autobiographical poems that help draw a slim profile of him. Growing up in white, middle-class American suburbia—a theme in much of his poetic work—Hoagland seems to have been at odds with the wholesale materialism of his environment, viewing it with both cynicism and a desire to understand it. While his parents were

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