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    A Study Guide for Maxine Kumin's "Nurture"
    A Study Guide for Maxine Kumin's "Nurture"
    A Study Guide for Maxine Kumin's "Nurture"
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    A Study Guide for Maxine Kumin's "Nurture"

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    A Study Guide for Maxine Kumin's "Nurture," 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 dateSep 28, 2016
    ISBN9781535829755
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      A Study Guide for Maxine Kumin's "Nurture" - Gale

      14

      Nurture

      Maxine Kumin

      1987

      Introduction

      Maxine Kumin's Nurture, the title poem in her 1989 collection, is a meditation on the maternal instinct and the desire to care for nature and its creatures. It is also about the mythical discovery of a feral child and the urge to care for him and attempt to communicate with him. The desire to find a common language with a wild child is a metaphor for the desire to commune with nature itself, to find the link between the wild and the civilized.

      Kumin is known as a confessional poet and a nature poet, and Nurture can be considered both types of poem. Her writing career began with mostly personal lyrics and became more concerned with the environment as it progressed. Nurture, Kumin's ninth collection of poems, is largely about nature, although it contains some personal lyrics. As a whole, the collection completes the transition from Kumin's early work to her later work. Nurture is an important part of this transition, a poem concerned largely with nature that is nevertheless balanced with personal concerns.

      Nurture was first published in Poetry magazine in October 1987. It can be found online and in its original collection, as well as in Kumin's 1997 Selected Poems, 1960–1990. Nurture has also been published in The Poetry Anthology, 1912–2002: Ninety Years of America's Most Distinguished Verse Magazine (2002).

      Author Biography

      Kumin was born Maxine Winokur in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 6, 1925. Although her family was Jewish, she attended Catholic school (and influences from both religions appear in her work). She married Victor Kumin, an engineer, in 1946, the same year she earned her bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College. She remained at Radcliffe until 1948, when she graduated with a master's degree. Nine years later,

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