Marilyn Hacker Redefines Mother, Woman, and Daughter in Selected Poems

Marilyn Hacker Redefines Mother, Woman, and Daughter in Selected Poems 1965-1990Marilyn Hacker. What does she symbolise? What does she mean? I check with Thrall, Hibbard, and Holman who define verse to be a termination applied to the many forms in which man has given a swinging expression to his most imaginative and intense perceptions of his world, himself, and the interrelationship of the two (364). I forge ahead through hundreds of pages of poetry. Images and impressions are beginning to form in my mind. Finally, Hacker, you provide a clue with Feeling and Form where you compare your poetry to Cezannes apples I do like words,which is why I make things step forward of wordsand listen to their hints, resounding likeskipping stones radiating circles, reap-ing context from text, the mien Ive watched you draw a pepper shaker on a table, drawit again, once more, until it isnt likeanything but your cerebration of a draw-ing, like an idea of movement, draw-ing its shape from seque nce.(85-86) The course syllabus indicates that this course investigates mother as a cul...