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A Study Guide for Hart Crane's "Voyages (I)," 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 Students for all of your research needs.
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A Study Guide for Hart Crane's "Voyages (I)" - Gale
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Voyages I
Hart Crane
1926
Introduction
Voyages I
is a poem by twentieth-century American poet Hart Crane. It was first published in Crane's first volume of poetry, White Buildings, in 1926, where it appeared as the first of a suite of six poems about the sea and also about love. Voyages I
features an adult speaker observing some children playing on the beach. He observes their innocent play and warns them not to grow up, because life can be cruel. Crane had written this poem a few years earlier and did not at the time intend it as part of a longer sequence. Indeed, he appears not to have thought highly of the poem. In August 1922, he wrote in a letter to his friend Gorham Munson that he had never been very enthusiastic about it.
He continued, It is a kind of poster,—in fact, you might name it ‘Poster’ if the idea hits you. There is nothing more profound in it than a ‘stop, look and listen’ sign.
Although commentators have often preferred the greater complexity of the other five poems in the sequence, Voyages I
is nonetheless an interesting and accomplished poem in its own right, suggesting as it does the inevitable but problematic passage from innocence to experience.
Author Biography
Crane was born in Garrettsville, Ohio, on July 21, 1899, the only child of Clarence A. and Grace Hart Crane. Crane's father was a successful businessman, but his marriage was an unhappy one, and Crane grew up in a household in which his parents were frequently quarreling. They would divorce in 1917. This unhappy home environment, in which Crane became estranged from his father and formed
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