Muriel Rukeyser Flashcards
Année de naissance ?
1913
Muriel Rukeyser is ?
A poet
Playwright
Biographer
Translator
Journalist
Political activist
She never graduate why ?
Because of her father’s company’s bankrupt at the time of the great depression 1930
First publication?
Theory of flight 1935
The sentimental poetry of the past is rejected for?
Kind of poetry focusing on political, economic and racial issues
Second collection ? Deal about ?
US.I - 1983
Deals with social and Racial injustice in the US
What the name of the opening selection?
The book of the dead
What the book of the dead commemorate?
It’s commemorate the disaster death of approximately 700 workers due to silicosis in 1936.
Rukeyser as a journalist was one of the direct witness
The meaning of absalom?
Father of peace
which responded to the issue of war
«Poem» in “the speed of darkness” 1968
The style of the poem ?
Narrative
Spoken and conversational
It is an autobiography of melancholy
