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    A Study Guide for Amy Lowell's "A Lady"
    A Study Guide for Amy Lowell's "A Lady"
    A Study Guide for Amy Lowell's "A Lady"
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    A Study Guide for Amy Lowell's "A Lady"

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    A Study Guide for Amy Lowell's "A Lady", 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 Studentsfor all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781535845809
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      A Study Guide for Amy Lowell's "A Lady" - Gale

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      A Lady

      Amy Lowell

      1914

      Introduction

      A Lady is a poem written by American author Amy Lowell. The poem was first published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse in April 1914. Lowell then included it in her 1914 collection, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed. The title of the collection alludes to World War I, which had erupted less than two months before the book's publication; in Flanders, where fighting was fierce, poppy fields flourished, and red poppies quickly became associated with casualties.

      In the 1910s, a significant literary movement emerged in Anglo-American poetry. This movement, called imagism, charted a new direction for poetry in English. It was led by such writers as Ezra Pound, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Richard Aldington, and F. S. Flint, whose work, with that of other imagists, appeared in various imagist anthologies and literary journals such as Little Review and Poetry. Abandoning what they regarded as the fustiness of Victorian poetry, the imagists emphasized concrete language, precise figures of speech, and metrical flexibility. Imagist verse tends to be concise, with an emphasis on a sharply chiseled visual image. A Lady conforms to the norms of imagism in presenting the poet's perceptions of an unnamed, aging lady in a sequence of visual, auditory, and olfactory images. The collection in which it appeared, with its bold experimentalism, marked Lowell as a major voice in American poetry and as the spiritual leader of the imagist movement in the United States. A Lady appears in The Complete Poetical Works of Amy Lowell (Houghton Mifflin, 1955). The poem can be found online at the PoemHunter website at https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-lady/.

      Author Biography

      Lowell was born in the Boston suburb of Brookline, Massachusetts, on February 9, 1874. She was the youngest of five surviving children of Augustus, a

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