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    A Study Guide for Henrik Ibsen's "In the Orchard"
    A Study Guide for Henrik Ibsen's "In the Orchard"
    A Study Guide for Henrik Ibsen's "In the Orchard"
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    A Study Guide for Henrik Ibsen's "In the Orchard"

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    A Study Guide for Henrik Ibsen's "In the Orchard," 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
    ISBN9781535825931
    A Study Guide for Henrik Ibsen's "In the Orchard"

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      A Study Guide for Henrik Ibsen's "In the Orchard" - Gale

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      In the Orchard

      Henrik Ibsen

      1862

      Introduction

      In the Orchard is a four-stanza poem by Henrik Ibsen in which the speaker extols living in the present and appreciating nature for its own sake. The strong and consistent rhyme and meter combine with active imagery to lushly convey the sense of being in a breezy apple orchard. Ibsen is a legendary playwright from Norway, with his most famous plays from his mid- to late career written in prose, as are A Doll's House (1879) and An Enemy of the People (1882), the latter of which was adapted in America by the famed dramatist Arthur Miller. But Ibsen wrote verse plays early in his career; he also published several collections of poems, and he considered himself foremost a poet.

      In the Orchard came to the attention of the English-speaking public not through any collection of Ibsen's but through a translation of the stanzas that open his 1862 verse play Kjœrlighedens Komedie, published in English in 1900 as Love's Comedy. The main character, Falk, an existential poet, delivers these thirty-two lines in heeding a request by the ladies at a garden party, piquing the staid bourgeois company in which he finds himself. The poem provokes much discussion and subtly introduces the major thematic realm of the play, the roles and realities of love and marriage. Edmund W. Gosse translated Falk's opening poem for a critical essay in the Fortnightly Review in 1873, and this version was included in the anthology English Verse: Translations in 1883, titled In the Orchard. The poem has also been included as such in An Anthology of World Poetry (1936), edited by Mark Van Doren, and A Junior Anthology of World Poetry (1929; also published as The World's Best Poems), edited by Van Doren and Garibaldi M. Lapolla. A different version, titled The Poet's Song, can be found in Lyrics and Poems from Ibsen (1912), translated by Edmund Garret. The passage can also be approached directly in the context of the play (in which a chorus of gentlemen repeat the lasttwolines of each stanza as the

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