Rukeyser’s indentations
Posted on May 15, 2012 by Elisabeth Däumer So, I am curious, why are the lines indented the way they are in Rukeyser's poem "For My Son"? What is the difference between: You come from poets, kings, bankrupts, preachers, attempted bankrupts, builders of cities, salesmen, the great rabbis, the kings of Ireland, failed drygoods storekeepers, beautiful women of the songs, great horsemen, tyrannical fathers at the shore of ocean, the western mothers lookng west beyond from their windows, the families escaping over the sea hurriedly and by night-- the roundtowers of the Celtic violet sunset, the diseased, the radiant, fliers, [...]
