This book proposes to highlight the study of contemporary American poetry with a close view to identify the configurations of the home as a metaphor. For convenience of the study, the poetry of only two female poets, the late Jane Kenyon and Tess Gallagher, and three male poets, Donald Hall, William Meredith and Louis Simpson, have been chosen The aim and objective of the study is to critically examine the poetry of these poets so as to discover in them how ...
Home, the most human essential phenomenon plays a vital role as it is not only a flourishing bed of childhood, youthful days, adulthood and old age for rest, repose, security and warmth but also encounters all the under-currents of individual life. This book proposes to study the poetry of Donald Hall, Tess Gallagher, Rita Dove, A.K. Ramanujan, Jayanta Mahapatra and Kamala Das the six major voices of both contemporary American and Indian poetry in English with a ...