![]() ![]() ![]() Considered as a complete body of work, these poems shed light on Louise Glück's recent fascination with death and silence as transitory states: while both are the conclusion of one type of life, noise, or art, they are perhaps also the gateways into new forms of life or creativity. ![]() In total, the collection is comprised of 24 poems, and it is primarily comprised of three types of poems: prose poems which seek to teach a variety of personal and spiritual lessons standard poems, often long or in numbered sections, which reflect either indistinct personae's lived experiences or autobiographical concerns about death and old age and standard poems, written in a lengthy and elliptical style, that follow the life story of a fictional English painter whose parents died in his youth.This Note addresses a representative sample of 15 poems at length, but because many of the poems' themes connect, repeat, and intersect in important ways, every poem in the collection will be addressed. This ClassicNote focuses on the poems contained in Louise Glück's collection Faithful and Virtuous Night (2014). ![]()
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