WWQR > Vol. 2 (1984) > No. 3
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Abstract
Offers a reading of "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," emphasizing the poet's "progressive re-engagement with sensuous reality" and arguing that "the Poet's grief-work consists of a series of operations which ritually reappropriate the world, a world now tinged with death" and that the poem places "symbols of grief within an ongoing life-process."
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Copyright © 1984 by The University of Iowa.
Recommended Citation
Steele, Jeffrey. "Poetic Grief-Work in Whitman's "Lilacs"." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (12 1984), 10-16.
Available at: http://ir.uiowa.edu/wwqr/vol2/iss3/3
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