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Words for Departure Summary & Study Guide Description
Words for Departure Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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Words for Departure Summary and Analysis
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Overview
Bogan's lyrical poem "Words for Departure" offers instructions for a departing lover, but the poem goes beyond simple leave-taking to create an image of love found and then lost. The poem is divided into three sections, each containing several stanzas. The first section is one of oppositions and takes place in the present tense. The second section is focused on memories, recalling the lover as he was in the past. The final section pushes the lover away and looks to the future. The poem itself is filled with ambiguities that reveal the pain the speaker feels at her lover's betrayal. In the end, although she instructs him on how a lover should leave, her own grief at this loss is captured in her inability to watch him leave.
Lines 1—5
The first line of Bogan's poem begins with the word "nothing," a word that is repeated several times in the first...
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