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A Study Guide for Diane Ackerman's "On Location in the Loire Valley"
A Study Guide for Diane Ackerman's "On Location in the Loire Valley"
A Study Guide for Diane Ackerman's "On Location in the Loire Valley"
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A Study Guide for Diane Ackerman's "On Location in the Loire Valley"

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A Study Guide for Diane Ackerman's "On Location in the Loire Valley," 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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Release dateAug 26, 2016
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    A Study Guide for Diane Ackerman's "On Location in the Loire Valley" - Gale

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    On Location in the Loire Valley

    Diane Ackerman

    1998

    Introduction

    Diane Ackerman's poem On Location in the Loire Valley was published in her fifth volume of poetry, I Praise My Destroyer (1998). The poem is written in the form of a ghazal, which is a poetic form that has flourished for hundreds of years in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu literature. Most poets who write ghazals in English produce much looser forms than the traditional one, but Ackerman's On Location in the Loire Valley follows the traditional pattern quite closely. The poem appears to tell a story about a company of actors who are making a film on location in the Loire Valley in France. The poem also reflects, in a highly allusive manner, on the nature of human life—its transience, the search for communication, and its unanswerable questions.

    Author Biography

    Diane Ackerman was born October 7, 1948, in Waukegan, Illinois, the daughter of Sam (a restaurant owner) and Marcia (Tischler) Fink. She attended Boston University from 1966 to 1967, and then enrolled at Pennsylvania State University, from which she graduated in 1970 with a bachelor of arts degree. She pursued graduate study at Cornell University, graduating in 1973 with a master of fine arts degree. She went on to earn a master of arts degree in 1976, and a Ph.D. in English in 1978. She then held teaching positions at the University of Pittsburgh (1980–1983) and Washington University (1984–1986), and was a

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