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A Study Guide for Kevin Young's "Chorale," 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.
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A Study Guide for Kevin Young's "Chorale" - Gale
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Chorale
Kevin Young
2003
Introduction
In his third collection of poetry, Jelly Roll: A Blues (2003), Kevin Young presents the reader with verses drawing first and foremost on the musical genre of the title and also on a wide variety of other historical genres. The titles of the poems themselves are the first indication of his inspirations: Rhythm & Blues,
Early Blues,
Blues,
and Late Blues
affirm the collection's foundation; Dixieland,
Ragtime,
and Boogie-Woogie
indicate that Young is wandering further afield while nevertheless remaining rooted in the blues tradition; and Etude
(a composition with both technical and artistic merit), Cantata
(a composition employing voices in various forms), and Rhapsody
(an irregular, improvisational composition) offer evidence of the author's widespread understanding of the essence of music. Indeed, nearly all of the more than one hundred poems in the collection reverberate with musicality, with fifteen titles including the word song. The work's opening epigraph consists of fourteen lines of lyrics written by the blues guitarist Robert
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