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published
1954
by Doubleday
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1954)
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Read in July, 2008
These selected poems from 1933-1953 show Roethke's power as a poet: the deft use of form (as in "My Papa's Waltz") the exacting eye (such as in "Dolor"), etc. What happened in "Praise to the End!", the 1951 collection, though? It seems there that Roethke is trying to be ambiguous for the sake of ambiguity. The tone there is like that of his children's verse, but meaning has disappeared:
"Hear me soft ears and roundy stones!
It's a dear life ...more
"Hear me soft ears and roundy stones!
It's a dear life ...more
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"I wake to sleep and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go."
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