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    A Study Guide for Amy Lowell's "Lilacs"
    A Study Guide for Amy Lowell's "Lilacs"
    A Study Guide for Amy Lowell's "Lilacs"
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    A Study Guide for Amy Lowell's "Lilacs"

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    A Study Guide for Amy Lowell's "Lilacs," 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
    ISBN9781535827461
    A Study Guide for Amy Lowell's "Lilacs"

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      A Study Guide for Amy Lowell's "Lilacs" - Gale

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      Lilacs

      Amy Lowell

      1920

      Introduction

      The American poet Amy Lowell was a force of nature in the poetry scene of the late 1910s and early 1920s, becoming a champion of modernist new poetry and especially the imagist movement that found her at the helm. Lilacs might be considered her crowning achievement. Although she had literary dreams from an early age, Lowell came onto the poetry scene relatively late in life, after being profoundly moved by a Boston performance by an Italian actress, Eleonora Duse. Then twenty-eight years old, though as ignorant as anyone could be about poetry—as she would later write in a letter (cited in Benvenuto)—Lowell sat down, and with infinite agitation wrote this poem. … It loosed a bolt in my brain and I found out where my true function lay. Still, that ode to Duse remained private (for the time being), and eight more years would pass before she began publishing her verse, made the acquaintance of Ezra Pound in London, and returned to flourish the banner of American imagism.

      True to the movement's name, Lilacs is a poem overflowing with images, of a wide variety of scenes and settings in which the flowers can be found. The poem is also an ode to the Massachusetts native Lowell's home region of New England. First read aloud to a standing-room-only crowd of over 1,200 at the University of Chicago and first published in the New York Evening Post on September 18, 1920, Lilacs was an immediate success and would become a hallmark of her readings. If she failed to include the poem in her program, it would inevitably be requested as an encore. She even grew tired of always being obliged to read it—and yet, on the other hand, if it was not requested, she could not help being disappointed. Lilacs was included in Lowell's collection What's O'Clock, which was published just after her death in 1925 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1926. The poem also appears in her Complete Poetical Works, Selected Poems of Amy Lowell, and a number of verse anthologies.

      Author Biography

      Lowell was born on February 9, 1874, in Brookline, Massachusetts, as the fifth and last living child of Augustus and Katherine Lowell. Their family on both sides had gained great wealth in generations past through the cotton trade, and Lowell's father continued to succeed in business and industry. As a young girl,

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