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    A Study Guide for Stanley Kunitz's "The Layers"
    A Study Guide for Stanley Kunitz's "The Layers"
    A Study Guide for Stanley Kunitz's "The Layers"
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    A Study Guide for Stanley Kunitz's "The Layers"

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    A Study Guide for Stanley Kunitz's "The Layers", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Studentsfor all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJan 18, 2018
    ISBN9781535846028
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      A Study Guide for Stanley Kunitz's "The Layers" - Gale

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      The Layers

      Stanley Kunitz

      1979

      Introduction

      The Layers is a poem by distinguished twentieth-century American poet Stanley Kunitz. It was first published in the American Poetry Review and was reprinted in The Poems of Stanley Kunitz, 1928–1978 (1979). The poem is also available in Kunitz's Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected (1995). The Layers was the last poem he wrote for the 1979 collection; he intended it to be a summing up of his work, which then covered a period of fifty years. It is a lyric, free-verse poem in which a first-person speaker looks back on his life's journey and the many changes he has known, including difficult situations and losses incurred. In spite of these losses, the poet looks forward to the remaining years; he expects more transformations and changes and embraces whatever awaits him next. The Layers thus serves as an introduction to the later work of Kunitz, in which he shed some of the more intellectual approaches of his earlier poetry in favor of a simpler, more direct style.

      Author Biography

      Stanley Jasspon Kunitz was born on July 29, 1905, in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Solomon Z. and Yetta (Jasspon) Kunitz. His father committed suicide before his son was born. Both his parents were immigrants; his mother came from Lithuania. In 1918 his mother remarried, but Kunitz's stepfather died a year later.

      Kunitz once recalled that he had been interested in writing since his early teenage years, when he wrote adventure stories. He attended Classical High School, where he edited the school literary magazine. He graduated in 1922 and enrolled at Harvard University on a scholarship, majoring in English with a minor in philosophy. He graduated

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