A Study Guide for Louise Gluck's "The Gold Lilly"
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The Gold Lily
Louise Glück
1992
Introduction
Louise Glück’s The Gold Lily
is the penultimate poem in Glück’s sixth book of poetry, The Wild Iris (1992), a volume for which Glück received the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. The Wild Iris is composed of poems partly inspired by Glück’s avocation as a gardener. Most often, there are three voices in The Wild Iris: those of flowers speaking to humans, humans speaking to God, and God speaking to humans. In The Gold Lily,
the flower speaks to humans or, possibly, to God. As the gold lily dies, it asks to be saved by the one who raised it, but one who is helpless to fulfill the