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A Study Guide for A D. Hope's "Beware of Ruins," 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 A D. Hope's "Beware of Ruins" - Gale
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Beware of Ruins
A. D. Hope
1981
Introduction
A. D. Hope’s Beware of Ruins
(1981) is a poem about memory and imagination motivated to engage by viewing ruins from a Renaissance past. Seeking the world’s past arouses the poet to find and reconstruct his own past of things read and experiences lived—the ruins being, themselves, a kind of materialized memory which inspires flights into memories of one’s own cultural and personal experiences. The poem is also about aging, about how one would romantically and ideally reconstruct, through ruins, another’s past, but with much more difficulty, reconstruct oneself in one’s own past. In this latter sense, Beware of Ruins
gestures toward an expression of how one is dead to the past and moving toward the death in the
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