Maxine Kumin And Her Poetry
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Maxine Kumin, who experienced many different views of the world through
travel, feels the most comfortable in New Hampshire, her rural home. In any area
that she travels, she always makes a similarity to her home, as expressed in her
poems.
In her poem, “The Long Approach”, she is driving in h ....
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.... to relive the past by, “...unwind(ing) it,
paste it together in a different collage...”. In this poem, Maxine Kumin, uses
plants to describe her feelings, as in; “scatter like milkweed” and “pods of the
soul”. These similes show what she sees and feels.
“The Longing to be Saved”, is a dream, where her barn catches fire. “In
and out of dreams as thin as acetate.” She visualizes herself getting the
horses out, but they “wrench free, wheel, dash back”.
In, “Family Reun ....
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