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    A Study Guide for Lisel Mueller's "The Exhibit"
    A Study Guide for Lisel Mueller's "The Exhibit"
    A Study Guide for Lisel Mueller's "The Exhibit"
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    A Study Guide for Lisel Mueller's "The Exhibit"

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    A Study Guide for Lisel Mueller's "The Exhibit," 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 19, 2016
    ISBN9781535836470
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      A Study Guide for Lisel Mueller's "The Exhibit" - Gale

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      The Exhibit

      Lisel Mueller

      1986

      Introduction

      The Exhibit (contained in Lisel Mueller’s collection Second Language [1986]) blends history and mythology to express the lingering grief and denial that still haunt an elderly man who survived being a prisoner of war. Using the unicorn metaphor, the poet shows how the horrible public event of world war has a lasting detrimental effect on private life and how our present lives are determined and shaped by the past. Mueller often writes autobiographical poems which include members of her family, and The Exhibit is about an uncle living in East Germany many years after the world wars of the twentieth century. The poem does not specify whether the uncle was a prisoner during the first or second world war, but his age could well place him in WWI. We know, however, that Lisel Mueller’s own life was directly affected by WWII and that many of her poems stem from the events of the Holocaust. Regardless of which world war is the reference here, the meaning is the same—war takes its toll not only on the body, but on the mind, leaving decades of appalling memories for survivors and often causing them to turn to imagination and myth for

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