American Literature / Unit 17 AML 1630 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Adrienne Rich and "Diving into the Wreck"
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The idea
Auden chose Rich's first book for the Yale Younger Poets series for its delicacy and restraint. Her nineteen seventy-three collection Diving into the Wreck won the National Book Award, and the witness calls the metaphor her special genius: a woman's search for identity as a dive to a wreck.
In practice
A dive to a wreck, seeking identity.
Where people slip
The wreck is Western civilization itself.
Your place on the trail
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