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    A Study Guide for Eamon Grennan's "Station"
    A Study Guide for Eamon Grennan's "Station"
    A Study Guide for Eamon Grennan's "Station"
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    A Study Guide for Eamon Grennan's "Station"

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    A Study Guide for Eamon Grennan's "Station," 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 Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 26, 2016
    ISBN9781535834094
    A Study Guide for Eamon Grennan's "Station"

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      A Study Guide for Eamon Grennan's "Station" - Gale

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      Station

      Eamon Grennan

      1991

      Introduction

      Station is a poem written in free verse by Eamon Grennan, an Irish poet who has spent most of his adult life in the United States. It was first published in 1991 in Grennan's collection As If It Matters (Dublin, Ireland, 1991; St. Paul, MN, 1992). It is also available in Grennan's Relations: New and Selected Poems (1998).

      In Station, the speaker and his young son are at the Hudson Valley train station in upstate New York. The boy's parents are divorced, and he is about to leave his father and go to visit his mother. The poem describes the scene at the train station and the thoughts of the boy's father, who knows this is a turning point in his relationship with his son; not only is the boy going away, he is also about to enter adolescence. This is a stage, a station, along the boy's path to adulthood, and the father knows that things will never again be the same between them. He also realizes that he cannot find the right words to say to his son on this

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