Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow

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"Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow" is a meditative lyric poem by Robert Duncan that explores memory, imagination, and a recurring inner landscape as a site of spiritual and poetic revelation.

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instanceOf lyric poem ⓘ
poem ⓘ
author Robert Duncan ⓘ
centralSymbol meadow ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States ⓘ
criticalReception widely anthologized and discussed in literary criticism ⓘ
explores idea of a preexistent order of words ⓘ
process of poetic creation ⓘ
relationship between language and being ⓘ
form free verse ⓘ
genre meditative lyric ⓘ
hasOpeningLine "Often I am permitted to return to a meadow" ⓘ
includedIn Robert Duncan's poetic oeuvre ⓘ
influencedBy modernist poetics ⓘ
mythic and mystical traditions ⓘ
language English ⓘ
literaryDevice imagery ⓘ
metaphor ⓘ
repetition ⓘ
symbolism ⓘ
literaryMovement American postmodern poetry ⓘ
Black Mountain poets ⓘ
mainTheme imagination ⓘ
inner landscape ⓘ
memory ⓘ
poetic inspiration ⓘ
return and recurrence ⓘ
spiritual revelation ⓘ
meter non-metrical ⓘ
narrativePerspective first person ⓘ
period 20th-century American poetry ⓘ
rhymeScheme unrhymed ⓘ
setting imagined meadow ⓘ
inner psychic landscape ⓘ
studiedIn courses on Black Mountain poets ⓘ
courses on contemporary American poetry ⓘ
subjectMatter intersection of memory and vision ⓘ
relationship between poet and imagination ⓘ
sacred space in consciousness ⓘ
symbolizes origin of the poem ⓘ
source of poetic language ⓘ
spiritual refuge ⓘ
tone contemplative ⓘ
reverent ⓘ

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The Opening of the Field → notablePoem → Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow ⓘ
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow → hasOpeningLine → "Often I am permitted to return to a meadow" ⓘ
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