Symbolism, Setting, and Objects from A Coney Island of the Mind, Poems

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

Goya's Paintings - These objects depict people of the world at the moment when they attain the title of suffering humanity.

Straits of Demos - This is where the poet sees symbolic birds and realizes the similarities between American democracy and original Greek democracy.

Parchments - These lie around the Dead Sea as proof that Jesus Christ is the son of God, but they are not found until 1947.

Tree - This is the cross that Jesus Christ is stretched on and from where he does not come down.

Statue of Saint Francis...
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