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    A Study Guide for Robin Behn's "Ten Years after Your Deliberate Drowning"
    A Study Guide for Robin Behn's "Ten Years after Your Deliberate Drowning"
    A Study Guide for Robin Behn's "Ten Years after Your Deliberate Drowning"
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    A Study Guide for Robin Behn's "Ten Years after Your Deliberate Drowning"

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    A Study Guide for Robin Behn's "Ten Years after Your Deliberate Drowning," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 26, 2016
    ISBN9781535834780
    A Study Guide for Robin Behn's "Ten Years after Your Deliberate Drowning"

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      Ten Years after Your Deliberate Drowning

      Robin Behn

      1993

      Introduction

      Robin Behn's Ten Years after Your Deliberate Drowning is a poem about life and love as well as about death. It incorporates images of a benevolent nature and also nature gone awry. It is about love that transcends physicality and flows into eternity. It is simple, and it is complex.

      Through her use of extended metaphor, which in this poem centers on two moths, Behn tries to make sense of death while simultaneously trying to make sense of love and the loss of it. The poem is personal and from that most intimate point of view becomes universal, for who has not experienced, or at least pondered, the emotions that emanate from the incomprehensible concepts of love and death? As Behn delves into these two abstractions, she takes her readers with her, gently inviting them to look at both the wonder and the pain.

      A copy of the poem can be found in Behn's second collection of poetry, The Red Hour (1993).

      Author Biography

      Robin Behn was born in 1958. She is a prizewinning poet and author of three collections of poetry. Behn is also a distinguished professor of English and creative writing and was honored with the Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award at the University of Alabama, where she began teaching since the 1980s. Behn has stated that she comes from a family of teachers. Her father also taught English and instilled in her a love of language.

      Behn received her bachelor's degree from Oberlin College. She then continued her studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia and was granted a master's degree from the University of Iowa. She has been awarded several major grants, including the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim fellowship.

      Her first collection of poetry, Paper Bird, was published in 1988 and won the Associated Writing Programs Award in poetry. Her poem Ten Years after Your Deliberate Drowning, which appears in the

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