IKnew a Woman by Theodore Roethke

Introduction

The beauty of the female body is a subject that has caused the lyrical outpourings of poets and composers since the language was in life.

Discussion

Roethke is criticized for being derivative of the aspects of his work; in particular, openly influenced by Yeats, Roethke assimilated and advanced modernist contribution to Wallace Stevens and TS Eliot to create a poetic voice of his own, which have reached further into the depths of the individual psyche (Stiffler 210).Its opening lines of his arrest in artful denial of a cliché of beauty while "shallow."Of course the verb line ...