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  1. The Glass Essay

    Emily never made a friend in her life, is a space where the little raw soul. slips through. It goes skimming the deep keel like a storm petrel, out of sight. The little raw soul was caught by no one. She didn't have friends, children, sex, religion, marriage, success, a salary. or a fear of death.

  2. The Glass Essay

    The Glass Essay" is a poem by Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson. This thirty-six page poem opens Carson's Glass, Irony and God, which was published in 1995. ... have referred to the poem as a lyric essay, despite its inclusion in a book of poetry. [4] Reception

  3. "The Glass Essay" by Anne Carson

    Yet her poetry from beginning to end is concerned with prisons, vaults, cages, bars, curbs, bits, bolts, fetters, locked windows, narrow frames, aching walls. "Why all the fuss?" asks one critic. ... "The Glass Essay" by Anne Carson. On April 21, 2016 February 18, 2016 By Christina's Words In Poetry.

  4. The Glass Essay Summary and Study Guide

    The Glass Essay" is a long poem by Anne Carson. Carson is an award-winning, widely published poet, essayist, translator, artist, and professor from Canada. She published "The Glass Essay" in her 1995 book Glass, Irony and God. Like much of Carson's work, the poem upends genres. It mixes prose and poetry, canonized literature and ...

  5. The Glass Essay Summary

    Complete summary of Anne Carson's The Glass Essay. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Glass Essay. ... The poem begins as the speaker is about to leave for a visit with ...

  6. The Glass Essay Analysis

    Anne Carson is known for writing in a hybrid of poetry and essay, and literary references abound. In this poem, those references focus on the writing and life of Emily Brontë. The poem has little ...

  7. The Glass Essay Themes

    Earlier in the poem, she sees a "shadowless light" as freeing from death, but in the last line, a body she sees as truly free walks "out of the light." Discussion of themes and motifs in Anne ...

  8. The Glass Essay Poem Analysis

    Analysis: "The Glass Essay". The first section of the poem, "I," starts with the speaker waking up at 4:00 a.m. with an ex-boyfriend, Law, on her mind. The personal mood of the first three stanzas, the title of the section, and the immediate presence of an I suggest the work is confessional, so Anne Carson is the speaker.

  9. The Glass Essay Themes

    Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Study Guide of "The Glass Essay" by Anne Carson. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. ... A place in the poem where the forceful portrayal of love relents ...

  10. Decreation, or the Art of Disappearance

    Abstract. This chapter is the first of two to approach Carson's rich exploration of the problem of "self" in the essays and iterative forms of Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera.Chapter 5 approaches a range of the book's individual poem sequences and prose narratives, arguing that Carson's set of intimate scripts for essaying and embodying Weil's concept of "decreation" places a ...

  11. Sarah Chihaya: "A Glass Essay"

    During the month that followed, I did the only thing that felt right: I read Anne Carson's long poem "The Glass Essay" every day. I had come to Oxford to teach a summer class as England endured a historic drought, and the sun shone heartlessly, beautifully every day. Every morning I woke up, ran around the park, rushed through a shower ...

  12. Essays at Anne Carson's 'Glass, Irony and God'

    Essays at Anne Carson's Glass, Irony and God ESSAY, an attempt. ... "Essay" in the poem "The Glass Essay" designates not autobiography but effort: "It pains me to record this,// I am not a melodramatic per son" (9). "Glass" describes not clarity but circuitousness: distracted reflections deflect the speaker from love and her ex-love, Law. Emily

  13. Introduction

    Expand Part II Glass Essays 3 On Not Being Emily Brontë Notes. ... Anne Carson studies a canvas by the American-born painter, Cy Twombly, on which the name "CATULLUS" is scrawled with a trained insouciance. ... an essay or a translation. In another much-quoted interview, Carson describes poems as "an action of the mind captured on a page ...

  14. PDF The Glass Essay

    The Glass EssayFrom. * * *. held prisoner,I am thinking as I strid. over the moor. As a rule after lunch. r has a nap160and I. go out to walk.The bare blue trees and bleached wooden sky of April carve into me with. Something inside it reminds me of childhood it is the light of the stalled time after lunch.

  15. Anne Carson: The Glass Essayist

    Coles, Elizabeth Sarah, Anne Carson: The Glass Essayist (New York, 2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, ... The book follows Carson's readings through variations in form—from early academic prose and poem-essays to creative adaptations and works for performance—to come to grips with what Coles calls Carson's transparency: not her easiness ...

  16. Anne Carson

    Anne Carson is a poet, essayist, professor of Classics, and translator. "In the small world of people who keep up with contemporary poetry," wrote Daphne Merkin in the New York Times Book Review, Carson "has been cutting a large swath, inciting both envy and admiration."Carson has gained both critical accolades and a wide readership over the course of her "unclassifiable ...

  17. The Glass Essay Characters

    The Glass Essay. by Anne Carson. Start Free Trial ... The speaker, narrating in first person, is the central character of this long poem. She is the only round and dynamic character in the poem ...

  18. The Glass Essay

    Other articles where The Glass Essay is discussed: Anne Carson: …but wildly expressive poem, "The Glass Essay," in which the narrator, while visiting her mother, meditates on a relationship gone bad, on English novelist and poet Emily Brontë (whom she is reading), and on a variety of other interrelated topics. In Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (1998),…

  19. Glass, Irony, and God

    Known as a remarkable classicist, Anne Carson in Glass, Irony and God weaves contemporary and ancient poetic strands with stunning style. This collection includes: "The Glass Essay", a powerful poem about the end of a love affair, told in the context of Carson's reading of the Bronte sisters; "Book of Isaiah", a poem evoking the deeply ...

  20. The Glass Essay Further Reading & Resources

    Like Anne Carson, the Brontës captivated the American poet, Sylvia Plath. Plath visited their Brontë estate in Haworth and wrote a poem, "Wuthering Heights," named after Emily's novel. The poem lacks the expansive narrative of "The Glass Essay," but it shares many of the same literary devices, such as forceful imagery and ...

  21. Book of Isaiah, Part I

    Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine. ... Anne Carson, "Book of Isaiah, Part I" from Glass ... Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation. Source: Glass Irony and God (New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1995) Share. More About This Poem. Related. Collection. Poems of Jewish ...

  22. The Glass Essay Symbols & Motifs

    Aside from adding to the themes of imprisonment, voices, and heartbreak, Emily Brontë functions as a symbol in "The Glass Essay.". Throughout the poem, Emily symbolizes companionship, fear, the speaker, and competition. At the start of the poem, Emily symbolizes a friend. The speaker is going to visit her mother, who lives alone.

  23. Anne Carson

    Anne Carson has published numerous books of poetry, including Float; Red Doc>; The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos, winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry; Autobiography of Red; and Short Talks.Carson is the translator of Electra; If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho; and An Oresteia, among others, and the author of Eros the Bittersweet.

  24. The Glass Essay Background

    Emily Brontë was born in 1818 and died in 1848. She had one brother, Branwell, and was one of five girls in her family. Two of her sisters died early on in her life. Her other two sisters, Charlotte and Anne, wrote poems and novels. Charlotte is the author of multiple novels, including Jane Eyre (1847). Anne is the author of two novels, Agnes ...