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The eldest brother at the head, The youngest at his right hand fed, At left in modest duty There sat the pure young beauty. 135 140 ‘‘Sheer raving, fancy run amuck, I would not let it grieve me! 2 8 POEM SUMMARY The narrator gives the background of the story. Natasha, a merchant’s daughter, has run away from home and is missing. On the third night she comes running home, so out of breath that she cannot even hear the questions being asked by her parents or her maid. She is so shaken that she cannot speak about what had frightened her.
The collection is still in print. Gerard Wozek’s poem ‘‘Song to Myself at Seventeen’’ examines the situation of a young man who feels alienated because of his sexual orientation and of the grown poet trying to understand the nature of that experience. The poem is included in Bend, Don’t Shatter: Poets on the Beginning of Desire, a collection edited by T. Cole Rachel and Rita D. Costello and published in 2004 by Soft Skull Press. Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O’Hara: A Memoir, by Frank O’Hara’s friend and sometime collaborator Joe LeSueur, gives a firsthand account of O’Hara’s life during his most productive period (1955–1965), when the two men lived together.
Watkin, William, In the Process of Poetry: The New York School and the Avant-Garde, Bucknell University Press, 2001. Watkin’s survey of the brief movement of the 1960s gives readers a look at what it meant to be groundbreaking for O’Hara and the other New York poets, and the theories that defined and energized their approach. P o e t r y f o r S t u d e n t s , V o l u m e 3 4 The Bridegroom Alexander Pushkin’s narrative poem ‘‘The Bridegroom’’ is a retelling of ‘‘The Robber Bridegroom,’’ one of the German fairy tales compiled by the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the early 1800s.