A Study Guide for William Stafford's "Ways to Live"
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A Study Guide for William Stafford's "Ways to Live" - Gale
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Ways to Live
William Stafford
1998
Introduction
Ways to Live
was written from July 19 through 21 of 1993, just over a month before William Stafford’s death in August of that year. Stafford was well known as a hard worker and diligent poet, often producing a poem a day. This poem comes from his book The Way It Is: New & Selected Poems, in a section containing poems that Stafford wrote in his final days that is titled There’s a Thread You Follow.
It is a mark of Stafford’s dedication to poetry that this collection contains a poem written on the morning of his death at age seventy-nine.
Stafford’s method of producing Ways to Live
is evident in the final product. On the one hand, it is clearly more spontaneous and loosely knit than poems that have been worked over and revised constantly. The four sections could almost stand as separate poems themselves and have only a thin, abstract relationship to each other. On the other hand, Stafford shows the poetic sensibilities that developed over years of daily practice so that even a poem that he had no time to revise shows more clarity and coherence than another poet might get from working and reworking a piece. This is a poem about growing old and giving up life gracefully, and it has the authority of having been written by an expert on the subject, a revered wordsmith at the very end of his life.
Author Biography
William Stafford was born in 1914 in Hutchinson, Kansas. His parents instilled in him moral values and a decidedly nonconformist, independent view of the world. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the family moved frequently within Kansas. Stafford worked constantly, delivering papers, harvesting beets, or apprenticing as an electrician’s assistant. He attended junior college and then the University of Kansas, where he received a bachelor’s degree in 1937. When America entered World War II in 1941, Stafford registered as a conscientious objector. In place of military service, he worked