Marilyn Hacker’s Selected Poems 1965-1990 :: Hacker Selected Poems 1965-1990

Marilyn ward-heelers Selected Poems 1965-1990Without question, I found Selected Poems to be the most challenging book weve read for this class. curiously enough, in my rush to finish this book, I remained certain that somewhere in this often unsettling collection Marilyn Hacker would find a way to touch on a cord or demand a response. When I reached Towards Autumn, the check finally cleared and crystallized, and I realized I had arrived. Towards Autumn view of hers (the daughter) like thinking of a loverI hope go forth someday grow to be a friend.I missed the lyric poem to make friends with my m some other.--pg 139 At this moment, it seems that a crossroads has been reached hope for the future linked with a recognition of past failure. In this case, we see the writer in the role of mother and daughter, simultaneously. What this excerpt does not make clear, however, is the fact that Hacker seems to have spent her life (if cardinal is correct in expect the use of I throughout h er work is a reference to herself) impuissance to find the words she needed to connect with others. Based on her softness to find the words in her personal relationships, her success in neat friends with her daughter is uncertain. If one considers the less-than-ideal relationship Hacker shared not single with her mother but also with Iva (see following excerpt*), we world power ask, Is the connection between mothers and daughters cyclical or lineal? If cyclical, then one might be inclined to assume Hacker will be un satisfactory to realize her goal (to one day be friends with her daughter). *pickings Notice. . . Inanother room, my daughter, home from school, audibly murmurs spanking, stupid, angryvoice--a loo drama where I am played secondhand to unresisting birdiedaughters. Mother and daughter both, I seemyself, the furious and unforgivenmyself, the terrified and alarmingthe child punished into autonomythe unhealed woman hearing her experience voice damn her to the nightmar es of the brooding girl.--pg. 133 Taking Notice On the other hand, if one ascribes to the lineal school of thought, Hacker may, in fact, be able to break the cycle of her past and create a bridge to her daughter.