SOURCE: “Thoreau's Rebellious Lyric,” in ESQ: Journal of the American Renaissance, No 54, 1969, pp. 27-30.
In the following essay, Glazier offers a close reading of the poem “Light-winged Smoke,” discussing elements of rebellion evident in its free form, imagery, and central figure of the defiant lcarus of classical mythology.
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