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    A Study Guide for Claudia Emerson's "My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetary"
    A Study Guide for Claudia Emerson's "My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetary"
    A Study Guide for Claudia Emerson's "My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetary"
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    A Study Guide for Claudia Emerson's "My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetary"

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    A Study Guide for Claudia Emerson's "My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetary," 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 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535829168
    A Study Guide for Claudia Emerson's "My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetary"

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      My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetery

      Claudia Emerson

      2005

      Introduction

      My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetery was first published in 2005 by Claudia Emerson in her poetry collection Late Wife. Emerson's poem is part of a semi-autobiographical sequence of poems that explore her first marriage—which ended in divorce after nineteen years—the time after her divorce when she lived in solitude, and her subsequent marriage to a widower. The poems in this Pulitzer prize-winning collection began as letters written, though never mailed, in which the author explores the grief she felt when her first marriage ended and the happiness that she feels in her second marriage; both events are tinged with loss, which is explored through a poetic sequence of emotions and memories. Emerson's new happiness is derived from grief, since this second marriage occurs only after the death of her husband's first wife. This complexity of emotion is revealed in My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetery, in which the second wife in the poem receives only the barest recognition compared to the first wife. Emerson's own life is mirrored in the life of her grandmother, in that both the poet and her grandmother married men who have lost beloved first

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