IN THE GARDEN
by Anonymous
In the garden there strayed
A beautiful maid
As fair as the flowers of the morn;
The first hour of her life
She was made a man's wife,
And was buried before she was born.
Do you recognize the allusion?Oh, you want me to define allusion? Okay, an allusion is a reference to a literary work, person, place, or event. Allusion is a means of suggesting far more than it actually says. This picture is a visual allusion to another part of the same story.
I ran across my old copy of Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry, Second Edition, by Laurence Perrine, 1963. My notes in the book show that we discussed this poem in my college English class on March 28, 1966.
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I posted this on my Bonnie's Books blog a couple of months ago and intended to cross-post it here. I guess I forgot.
