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    A Study Guide for Frank O'Hara's "Having a Coke With You"
    A Study Guide for Frank O'Hara's "Having a Coke With You"
    A Study Guide for Frank O'Hara's "Having a Coke With You"
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    A Study Guide for Frank O'Hara's "Having a Coke With You"

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    A Study Guide for Frank O'Hara's "Having a Coke With You," 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 19, 2016
    ISBN9781535824552
    A Study Guide for Frank O'Hara's "Having a Coke With You"

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      A Study Guide for Frank O'Hara's "Having a Coke With You" - Gale

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      Having a Coke with You

      Frank O’Hara

      1960

      Introduction

      Frank O’Hara’s love poem, Having a Coke with You, was first published in a small press magazine called Love. O’Hara wrote the poem four days after returning to New York City from a business trip in Spain on April 21, 1960. Having a Coke with You is one of many love poems that O’Hara composed during his love affair with Vincent Warren, a dancer with whom O’Hara was madly in love. Having a Coke with You expresses O’Hara’s idea that poems can be as direct and personal as telephone conversations. It describes the affection O’Hara felt for Warren. By listing the details of his love for Warren, then comparing them to his own activities in Spain, and great works of Western art, O’Hara compares art to the real experience of a lover’s company and beauty. O’Hara was an associate curator for the Museum of Modern Art in New York and while in Spain, organized a show called New Spanish Painting and Sculpture. References to paintings and sculpture, such as Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase and Marino Marini’s Horse and Rider, suggests that the artists were not necessarily in love with their subjects. Throughout the poem O’Hara juxtaposes life and art. Life, in O’Hara’s interpretation is always the better

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