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    A Study Guide for Marilyn Hacker's "The Boy"
    A Study Guide for Marilyn Hacker's "The Boy"
    A Study Guide for Marilyn Hacker's "The Boy"
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    A Study Guide for Marilyn Hacker's "The Boy"

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    A Study Guide for Marilyn Hacker's "The Boy," 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 26, 2016
    ISBN9781535828178
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      A Study Guide for Marilyn Hacker's "The Boy" - Gale

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      The Boy

      Marilyn Hacker

      1999

      Introduction

      Marilyn Hacker's poem The Boy first appeared in the Breadloaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry in 1999 and is the opening poem in her 2000 collection, Squares and Courtyards. Written in eight rhyming stanzas, the poem explores the roles of gender, race, and writing in shaping identity. Hacker is known for her new formalist meditations on history, womanhood, and the stuff of everyday life. This poem addresses all three. As the narrator imagines herself as a boy completing a school assignment, the poet muses on the boy's life, his way of looking at the world, his relationship to gender, and his own identity as a Jew. Part fantasy, part character study, The Boy investigates the fluidity of human identity, pokes at the boundaries that separate one person's life from another's, and interrogates the ways in which human beings are called on to be one thing or

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