Juxtaposition as Structure in 'The Man Against the Sky'

Author / Editor
Sanborn, John N.

Title
Juxtaposition as Structure in 'The Man Against the Sky'

Published
Colby Library Quarterly 0.8 (1974): 486-94.

Description
Assesses the poetic structure of Edwin Arlington Robinson's "The Man Against the Sky," demonstrating that it "juxtaposes two dissimilar ideas forcing a new understanding of relationship" in an inorganic fashion similar to that found in Ovid, Chaucer, Milton, and Blake. Comments on how the envoi to TC provokes consideration of disparate views of love.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde