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Anne Stevenson [Photograph]. Retrieved March 7, 2013, from: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/anne-stevenson

Biographical Note: Anne Stevenson. (2012). Retrieved February 10, 2013, from Anne Stevenson Poet: http://www.anne-stevenson.co.uk/biography.html

Charles Leslie Stevenson [Photograph]. Retrieved March 10, 2013, from: http://um2017.org/faculty-history/faculty/charles-leslie-stevenson

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Stevenson, A. (2005). Making Poetry. Poems 1955-2005 . Great Britain: Bloodaxe Books.

Stevenson, A. (2005). Poem for a Daughter. Poems 1955-2005 . Great Britain: Bloodaxe Books.

Stevenson, A. (2005). The Mother. Poems 1955-2005 . Great Britain: Bloodaxe Books.

Stevenson, A. (2005). The Victory. Poems 1955-2005 . Great Britain: Bllodaxe Books.

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Historical

Great Depression

  • The New Deal

World War II

  • The Marshall Plan

Cold War

  • The Truman Doctrine

Questions?

Poetry Analysis

The Victory

I thought you were my victory

though you cut me like a knife

when I brought you out of my body

into your life

Tiny antagonist, gory,

blue as a bruise. The stains

of your cloud of glory

bled from my veins

How can you dare, blind thing,

blank insect eyes?

You barb the air. You sting

with bladed cries

Snail. Scary knot of desires.

Hungry snarl. Small son.

Why do I have to love you?

How have you won?

The Victory

  • Feelings that mothers have about childbirth
  • children cause suffering
  • 4 lines per stanza, quatrains
  • rhyme scheme: rhyming every other line within the stanza
  • negative: "cut me like a knife," "gory," and "antagonist
  • buglike: "snail," "insect eyes," and "sting"
  • The Victory
  • Poem for a Daughter
  • The Mother

Poem for a Daughter

A woman's life is her own

until it is taken away

by a first particular cry.

Then she is not alone

but part of the premises

of everything there is:

a time, a tribe, a war.

When we belong to the world

we become what we are.

'I think I'm going to have it,'

I said joking between pains.

The midwife rolled competent

sleeves over corpulent milky arms.

'Dear, you never have it,

we deliver it."

A judgement years proved true.

Certainly I've never had you

As you still have me, Caroline.

Why does a mother need a daughter?

Heart's needle, hostage to fortune,

freedom's end. Yet nothing's more perfect

than that bleating, razor-shaped cry

that delivers a mother to her baby.

The bloodcord snaps that held

their sphere together. The child,

tiny and alone, creates a mother.

Education

Poem for a Daughter

  • Feelings toward childbirth change
  • Importance of a child to a mother
  • No longer a free woman
  • A baby is the "heart's needle" and "freedom's end" to the mother
  • University of Michigan High School
  • first poem
  • U of M Music School
  • studied piano, cello, & literature
  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Humanities Degree
  • MA in English in Ann Arbor (1960)

The Mother

Of course I love them, they are my children.

That is my daughter and this is my son.

And this is my life I give them to please them.

It has never been used. Keep it safe, pass it on.

The Mother

  • Gives her life to her children
  • Sets her children free, imprisons herself
  • hopes for the love to be reciprocated
  • 4 lines, 1 stanza

Favorite Poem

Journal Entry: Impromptu C Minor

  • Free verse
  • varying stanzas
  • questions- contemplative
  • ex: Is a metaphor a thought?
  • repetition- emphasis
  • ex: rises and spills
  • "unhooks the wires" of her mind
  • uses personal references
  • ex: "I smile at her ambition. She doesn't yet know she will be deaf. She doesn't yet know how deaf she's been."
  • transition to the Holocaust
  • "The shoe heaps, hills of fillings, children's bones"
  • Schubert's life

Awards & Achievements

  • Sixteen Collections of Poetry
  • Includes: Stone Milk, Astonishment, Poems 1955-2005
  • Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath, biography
  • Other Books: Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop & Between the Iceberg and the Ship
  • Northern Rock Foundation Writers Award (2002)
  • Neglected Masters Award (2007)
  • Lannan Prize
  • Taylor- Aiken Poet of the Year

More Biographical

Husbands

  • Robin Hitchcock
  • daughter, Caroline
  • Mark Elvin
  • sons, John & Charles
  • Michael Farley
  • 15 years her junior
  • Peter Lucas
  • current husband

Biographical

Anne Stevenson

Charles L. Stevenson

1908-1979

  • Born in Cambridge, 1933
  • Father
  • Studied philosophy
  • "Ethics and Language"
  • Teacher
  • Mother
  • Teacher & Writer
  • Died of Cancer
  • Sisters
  • Diana & Laura

Louise Destler

1908-1963

1933- Present

Jackie Santin

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