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    A Study Guide for Mark Jarman's "Song of Roland"
    A Study Guide for Mark Jarman's "Song of Roland"
    A Study Guide for Mark Jarman's "Song of Roland"
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    A Study Guide for Mark Jarman's "Song of Roland"

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    A Study Guide for Mark Jarman's "Song of Roland", 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 dateMay 15, 2018
    ISBN9781410393821
    A Study Guide for Mark Jarman's "Song of Roland"

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      A Study Guide for Mark Jarman's "Song of Roland" - Gale

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      Song of Roland

      Mark Jarman

      2002

      Introduction

      Like much of Mark Jarman's verse, Song of Roland is a narrative poem with a personal view, but it does not follow the strict format of Jarman's New Formalism. It juxtaposes a legendary literary hero who dies in battle with a member of the speaker's family. Each story ends with death, but both characters continue to exist beyond their physical lives because their stories continue to be told. The speaker compares art, life, death, and immortality within the themes of family and memory.

      Song of Roland was originally published in the Hudson Review in 2002 and was included in Jarman's To the Green Man: Poems in 2004. The poem later appeared in the 2011 collection Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems.

      Author Biography

      Jarman was born in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, on June 5, 1952. His father and grandfather were both ministers, and according to Edward Hirsch in Poet's Choice, religious themes became prevalent in the poet's work. His family briefly lived in Scotland before moving to California. He earned his degree in English from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1974, the same year he married Amy Kane, a future opera singer and teacher.

      Jarman continued his studies at the University of Iowa, where he earned his MFA in 1976. He taught at Indiana State University until he earned his first grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, in 1978. Two more grants followed in 1984 and 1992. He and his wife briefly lived in Italy before

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