Women in Randall Jarrell's Poetry: The Myths and the Realities.

Gillikin, Dure Jo

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Publication Date: 1984

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Women in Randall Jarrell's Poetry: The Myths and the Realities.

Gillikin, Dure Jo

Community Review, v5 n2 p34-40 Fall 1984

Examines the images of women in the poetry of Randall Jarrell, focusing on poems portraying women with little chance of true fulfillment in traditional roles as wives and mothers, and who lose what status they have through the inevitable loss of sexual attractiveness. (DMM)

Descriptors: Females, Literary Criticism, Poetry, Poets, Twentieth Century Literature

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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