Free Verse. Free verse, or vers libre, is poetry that avoids use of regular rhyme, meter, or division into stanzas. As you read, consider whether or not “Celestial Music” is an example of free verse.
Objective Correlative. An objective correlative is a group of images that together create a particular emotion in the reader.
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“Celestial Music,” published in Ararat (1990), focuses on the speaker’s attempt to understand the beauty and significance of ordinary things. The speaker’s movement between dream and reality demonstrates Glück’s ability to formulate the ordinary into something imaginative and unearthly.
As you read, make a cluster chart describing the images in the poem. One example has been done for you.
How have you overcome a moment of fear or timidity?
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