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It argues that the poems’ clear-eyed acceptance of worldly circumstances yields truth, observation, and controlled lyricism, including themes of aging, death, humor, and social realism. 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poet,implying an absence of that give-and-take withsubject and form which produces the easy musical lyricism.Waller is notan“unflinching”poet,nor is Edmund Spenser,nor e.e.cummings.Butthe poems of Thomas Hardy are unflinching,and so are the late poems ofWilliam Carlos Williams.  \nIn considering the work of Marion Cannon I mention this latter pairof names purposely.For I believe that there is an irreplacable and irreduci-ble value in poetry that has been won from life (and not simply made upfor the purpose of writing poetry),and I think that Hardy and Williamsexemplify this value and that Ms.Cannon does also,to a very large degree.Almost any of the poems in Winter Words or Pictures from Breughel willillustrate what I mean.Whatever the sentiment of the individual poem,and no matter what images decorate its surface (these images can even beconventionally“beautiful”:birds and flowers),the poem is the product ofa flint-tough clear-eyed attitude toward the circumstances of the world.There is no backing off from the facts of the case;there is no prettifying;and even when there is ruefulness,it is examined for what it is.(Ms.Cannon asks,Is it\"that no one I wanted ever asked for me?\"There is adear fresh wonderment in that query,an unsentimental remarking of thecuriousness of life.Hardy would have loved it.)  \nNor can it be accidental that the three poets I am thinking aboutproduced these works in their later years.More than one older person hasremarked upon and luxuriated in that true freedom of the elderly to speaktheir minds,to say exactly what they mean with no frills and no com-promise except in the interest of good manners.Not that we are givendull statements of fact;there is no lack of art here,and in fact it maymore stretch the faculties of the poet the more he decides to come directlyat what he has to say.In lines slightly reminiscent of King Lear MarionCannon writes:\"The roots I've nourished in my flower bed/Will go onliving when I lie dead.”That's clear enough,certainly,and the wit of thecouplet doesn't conceal the poet's angry regret.And she goes on,rising tobitterness:\"And I begrudge them life.\"A short flat statement,the morebitter by virtue of its flatness,in which I read Dylan Thomas's villanelle,\"Do Not Go Gentle.”Then,the last two lines of the poem:“Next year Ithink I'll only plant/The fragile annuals.\"”An anticlimax,almost an after-thought,and yet it changes completely the bitter climax of the poem with  \na humor almost flippant.In five short lines the poet has come to terms(momentarily,at least)with that which is most difficult to come to termswith-and she has done it gracefully,artfully.  \nI may as well write down the words.Old age and death.Because of acruel sentimentality Americans of my generation don't like to say thosewords or to hear them.Certainly we don't like to see them fleshed out,stashing away our old people in Florida concentration camps or cabbage-smelling“rest homes”-anything to get them out of the house.I suspectthat one of the causes of our present universal stupidity is that we have sodeliberately and maliciously cut ourselves off from the wisdom of ourelders and betters.Here,in Another Light,perhaps the reader may beginto hear some of what we've been missing:knowledge so touching andurgent it should have been written not by our elder but by our youngerselves:\"With each of my five senses here I know/The world is good.\"  \nFor me,the most remarkable achievement in this book is the sequenceof six poems called\"Three Score and Five.\"These poems contain mostobviously the qualities I have been trying to celebrate:truthfulness,obser-vation,lyricism.The reader will notice that in some attitudes the poet isnot consistent from poem to poem;but that,you see,is part of the truth.We tend in our ignorance to think of old age as an accomplishe","cbCaipf19MakHssU","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipf19MakHssU","pdf",2350706,"English","# Foreword\n## Unflinchingness and poetic truth\n## Late work, aging, and death\n## Sequence “Three Score and Five”\n# Poems\n## Lesson\n## Inheritance\n## Miss Ann","[{\"question\":\"What does the foreword mean by “unflinchingness” in Marion Cannon’s poetry?\",\"answer\":\"It refers to a stance that does not back off from the facts of the world, avoids prettifying, and examines even ruefulness directly rather than sentimentally.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the foreword connect late poetry to freedom in speaking one’s mind?\",\"answer\":\"It claims older artists have a true freedom to say exactly what they mean without frills or compromise, which can make the work feel more direct while still remaining artistic.\"},{\"question\":\"What themes and qualities does the foreword highlight in the collection?\",\"answer\":\"It highlights truthfulness, observation, lyricism, and a range of subjects including humor, satire, social observation, travel reporting, and flower gardening.\"}]","Another Light - Foreword and Poems | PDF",1790595211,77]