Friday, February 5, 2010

Can you connect the poem, ';True Love';, by R.P.W. to a piece of literature?

A book, poem, story, something?Can you connect the poem, ';True Love';, by R.P.W. to a piece of literature?
First of all, I believe that the poem you're talking about is at:


http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/true-love鈥?/a>





If so, interesting comparisons could be made to other poems such as Browning's ';My Last Duchess.';





Or check out parallels with the novel _Bastard out of Carolina_ by Dorothy Allison.





You might think about using Larry McMurtry's _The Last Picture Show_. Rent the movie and see if it would work.





RPW was also a member of a southern group of writers and poets called The Southern Agrarians. Try finding a work by one of them to use for your comparison.





The Southern Agrarians were:





* John Crowe Ransom


* Donald Davidson


* Frank Lawrence Owsley


* John Gould Fletcher


* Lyle H. Lanier


* Allen Tate


* Herman Clarence Nixon


* Andrew Nelson Lytle


* Robert Penn Warren


* John Donald Wade


* Henry Blue Kline


* Stark Young

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