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Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End

Barbara Herrnstein Smith

Explores the question: How do poems end? This work examines numerous individual poems and examples of common poetic forms in order to reveal the relationship between closure and the overall structure and integrity of a poem.

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Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards: Christian Gauss Award1968WinnerOfficial source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

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  3. 03 Suggested argument

    Poem endings are meaningfully related to a poem’s overall structure and integrity, and examining common forms and individual poems reveals that relationship through how poems end.

    Model confidence 74%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 62%.