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    A Study Guide for George MacBeth's "Bedtime Story"
    A Study Guide for George MacBeth's "Bedtime Story"
    A Study Guide for George MacBeth's "Bedtime Story"
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    A Study Guide for George MacBeth's "Bedtime Story"

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    A Study Guide for George MacBeth's "Bedtime Story," 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
    ISBN9781535819282
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      A Study Guide for George MacBeth's "Bedtime Story" - Gale

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      Bedtime Story

      George MacBeth

      1972

      Introduction

      Bedtime Story appears in the third section of George MacBeth’s Collected Poems: 1958-1970. It consists of thirteen free-verse quatrains told from a narrator whose point of view is inconsistent. In the Foreword to this collection MacBeth writes that the poems in this section are written for those who (like myself) regard themselves as children. While that may be so, MacBeth is no ordinary child. Poems such as House for a Child, and A Child’s Garden are grouped with poems such as When I Am Dead and Fourteen Ways of Touching the Peter. Regarding oneself as a child, for MacBeth, means engaging in poetic mischief. Bedtime Story is a parody of bedtime stories, in that it uses the form of such a story to poke fun at the idea of happy endings and to undercut the notion that human beings are essentially good, or have generaally benign intentions towards one another. One could imagine childrens’ book author Maurice Sendak creating illustrations for the

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