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    A Study Guide for Alice Fulton's "Art Thou the Thing I Wanted"
    A Study Guide for Alice Fulton's "Art Thou the Thing I Wanted"
    A Study Guide for Alice Fulton's "Art Thou the Thing I Wanted"
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    A Study Guide for Alice Fulton's "Art Thou the Thing I Wanted"

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    A Study Guide for Alice Fulton's "Art Thou the Thing I Wanted," 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 26, 2016
    ISBN9781535818735
    A Study Guide for Alice Fulton's "Art Thou the Thing I Wanted"

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      A Study Guide for Alice Fulton's "Art Thou the Thing I Wanted" - Gale

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      Art Thou the Thing I Wanted

      Alice Fulton

      1990

      Introduction

      Art Thou the Thing I Wanted, by Alice Fulton, was first published in 1990 in her collection Powers of Congress (reprinted in 2001) and was also published in 2004 in her larger collection Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems. Art Thou the Thing I Wanted is a poem about longing, among many other things; one particular overtone focuses on how one accepts one's lot in life, and this acceptance in fact stands in opposition to longing. Each of these two opposing forces is subtly apparent in the poem's title, which suggests as well as questions that longing, as if the speaker is sure of neither her desire nor the object of her desire.

      Fulton has stated that her writing revolves around words, and indeed, Art Thou the Thing I Wanted provides a good example of how much fun Fulton has with language. She appears to like employing obscure vocabulary, often using words that might push her readers in surprising directions, as if she is enjoying a private joke. Her poems are playful—but the message underneath may be more serious. The emotions are hidden, waiting to be discovered, much like the solutions that Fulton refers to in the poem. Problems, one line asserts, are more interesting than solutions. The situation may be similar for the poem itself: the wordplay and twists in meaning may be at least as interesting as the emotions they describe.

      Author Biography

      Alice Fulton was born on January 25, 1952, in Troy, New York. She majored in creative writing as an undergraduate at Empire State College, in Saratoga Springs, New York, and then attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she gained a master of fine arts in 1982. Since then, Fulton has taught writing at various schools, completing a long tenure at

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