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    A Study Guide for Anne Carson's "New Rule"
    A Study Guide for Anne Carson's "New Rule"
    A Study Guide for Anne Carson's "New Rule"
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    A Study Guide for Anne Carson's "New Rule"

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    A Study Guide for Anne Carson's "New Rule," 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
    ISBN9781535829489
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      A Study Guide for Anne Carson's "New Rule" - Gale

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      New Rule

      Anne Carson

      2000

      Introduction

      Canadian poet Anne Carson first published New Rule in the United States in her 2000 collection, Men in the Off Hours. Like many of her other works, this book features juxtapositions of modern people and situations with people and situations from history and ancient literature. While New Rule differs from this pattern, which is one of Carson's hallmarks, the poem contains other aspects commonly associated with Carson's work, including an unusual structure and imagery that is challenging to decipher. The poem takes place on an ice-covered, New Year's morning in an unspecified location, when the poet uses the presence of a squirrel, with whom she has an imaginary conversation, to reflect upon a failed relationship from her past. The coldness of the setting reflects the coldness of the poet's lost love. New Year's, however, suggests a new beginning. Although much of Carson's work appears to have autobiographical elements in it, and critics have noted Carson's own failed relationships, there is no guarantee that Carson is speaking about herself. As a result, it is difficult to determine Carson's true inspiration for the poem, except to say that her poem explores the pain of breakups. Carson should not be confused with Anne Regina Carson, an American writer. Both were born in 1950, and the former has even lived and worked in the United States, so it is easy to make this mistake. A current copy of New Rule can be found in the paperback version of Men in the Off Hours, which was published by Vintage Contemporaries in 2001.

      Author Biography

      Carson was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on June 21, 1950. One of Carson's high school teachers knew Greek and offered to teach it to her. Carson gladly accepted and embarked on what has become a lifelong study of the classics (Greek and Roman literature). After earning her doctoral degree from the University of Toronto in 1980, Carson taught

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