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    A Study Guide for Linda Pastan's "Grudnow"
    A Study Guide for Linda Pastan's "Grudnow"
    A Study Guide for Linda Pastan's "Grudnow"
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    A Study Guide for Linda Pastan's "Grudnow"

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    A Study Guide for Linda Pastan's "Grudnow," 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
    ISBN9781535824279
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      A Study Guide for Linda Pastan's "Grudnow" - Gale

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      Grudnow

      Linda Pastan

      1986

      Introduction

      Grudnow, by American poet Linda Pastan, first appeared in Poetry magazine in October 1986; it was reprinted in Pastan's volume of poetry The Imperfect Paradise in 1988. The poem can also be found in Pastan's Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems: 1968-1998 (1998), and in two anthologies: American Identities: Contemporary Multicultural Voices (1996), edited by Robert Pack and Jay Parini, and Great Writing: A Reader for Writers (2001), edited by Harvey S. Wiener and Nora Eisenberg. The poem describes an old man through the eyes of his granddaughter. The old man is Jewish, and he immigrated many years ago to the United States from a town called Grudnow (usually spelled Grodno), which was then part of Russia and is now in Belarus. The granddaughter looks back on what she learned about her grandfather, both from his words and by observation of his actions and mannerisms. She imagines what life must have been like in those long-ago days in Grudnow. Grudnow is a typical poem by Pastan, a leading contemporary poet. The work is short and well-crafted, and it focuses on a number of important topics, including the history of the Jews, Jewish immigration to the United States, and cultural assimilation.

      Author Biography

      Pastan was born May 27, 1932, in the Bronx, New York, to Jacob L. and Bess Olenik. She was raised in a traditional Jewish extended family. As the only surviving child of her family, Pastan recalls in her article, Yesterday's Noise: The Poetry of Childhood Memory (published in The Writer's Handbook, 1993) that her childhood was lonely and she had difficulty making friends. In sixth grade, she writes, none of the other children wanted to play with her. She believes that what she calls her failure at childhood had some effect on her poetry. As a

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