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    A Study Guide for Richard F. Hugo's "For Jennifer,6, On The Teton"
    A Study Guide for Richard F. Hugo's "For Jennifer,6, On The Teton"
    A Study Guide for Richard F. Hugo's "For Jennifer,6, On The Teton"
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    A Study Guide for Richard F. Hugo's "For Jennifer,6, On The Teton"

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    A Study Guide for Richard F. Hugo's "For Jennifer,6, On The Teton," 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
    ISBN9781535823517
    A Study Guide for Richard F. Hugo's "For Jennifer,6, On The Teton"

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      A Study Guide for Richard F. Hugo's "For Jennifer,6, On The Teton" - Gale

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      For Jennifer, 6, on the Teton

      Richard Hugo

      1975

      Introduction

      For Jennifer, 6, on the Teton is included in Richard Hugo's 1975 collection, What Thou Lovest Well, Remains American, which was nominated for the National Book Award and reprinted in Making Certain It Goes On: The Collected Poems of Richard Hugo (1983). Hugo often wrote poems to lovers, students, and sometimes children of friends and lovers, and this is one of the latter. Hugo addresses the child, Jennifer, throughout the poem, making comparisons between her life and the Teton River, which inspired the poem. Historically, poets have used the river as a symbol of time, life, and change, and Hugo draws on this tradition in the poem. The form of the poem, though not a letter, has much in common with the poems in Hugo's next collection, 31 Letters and 13 Dreams (1977), many of which he addresses to friends and

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