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A Study Guide for Mark Strand's "The Continuous Life," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
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A Study Guide for Mark Strand's "The Continuous Life" - Gale
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The Continuous Life
Mark Strand
1990
Introduction
Mark Strand's poem The Continuous Life
originally appeared in The New Yorker and is the title poem of his 1990 poetry collection by the same name. The volume contains poems written between 1980 and 1990, some humorous, some serious, some whose tone is in between. Critics have called The Continuous Life
a perfect poem, and other readers seem to agree. New York City, for example, thought so highly of the poem they had it inscribed on a park bench in Hudson River Park. Appearing roughly in the middle of the collection, sandwiched between Life in the Valley
and From a Lost Diary,
the poem resonates with images of absence and death, Strand's trademark
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