A Study Guide for Alan Dugan's "How We Heard the Name"
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How We Heard the Name
Alan Dugan
1956
Introduction
Written in 1956, How We Heard the Name
appeared in the multiple award-winning Poems of 1961. While Alan Dugan’s verse had been published in magazines prior to 1961 (he received an award from Poetry magazine in 1946), it would be difficult to exaggerate the impact of his first collection. As Helen Chasin wrote in reviewing a later volume, Poems 4: Never a promising young poet, Dugan showed what he could do, which was considerable, in his first book.
How We Heard the Name
is typical Dugan. The poem concerns a chance encounter between a soldier and a group of shepherds in the aftermath of an ancient battle, but with Dugan the aboutness
of a poem can never be reduced to subject matter alone. Its tone ironic, its language colloquial, How We Heard the Name
is a mordant rumination on history, ambition, and identity. It is a deeply personal poem yet also a deeply impersonal one. It is, in short, a bundle of artful contradictions held together by an idiosyncratic sensibility. Writing in The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Thomas McClanahan stresses the equivocal stance
adopted by Dugan toward his subject matter, his readers, and, most of all, himself: "He is in many respects both observer and participant, withdrawn and involved, writing from a distance about things that matter greatly to