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    A Study Guide for Theodore Roethke's "Dolor"
    A Study Guide for Theodore Roethke's "Dolor"
    A Study Guide for Theodore Roethke's "Dolor"
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    A Study Guide for Theodore Roethke's "Dolor"

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    A Study Guide for Theodore Roethke's "Dolor", 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 Studentsfor all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781535846042
    A Study Guide for Theodore Roethke's "Dolor"

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      A Study Guide for Theodore Roethke's "Dolor" - Gale

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      Dolor

      Theodore Roethke

      1948

      Introduction

      Dolor is a poem by twentieth-century American poet Theodore Roethke. It was first published in 1948 in The Lost Son and Other Poems. It is available in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke (first published in 1966 and reprinted many times) and Theodore Roethke: Selected Poems (2005). Dolor is about the stultifying uniformity and dullness of working in an office. The standard office and its environment is presented as a place of sadness and misery, in which the workers have all lost their individuality and seem barely alive as they go through their repetitive routines. In its presentation of a kind of antilife theme, the poem throws into relief Roethke's characteristic concern with a search for the self and its organic connection to nature.

      Author Biography

      Roethke was born on May 25, 1908, in Saginaw, Michigan, the son of Otto and Helen Roethke. His father and uncle owned a large greenhouse, and Roethke grew up with a deep knowledge of plants and flowers that would later inform his poetry. His father died of cancer in 1923, when Roethke was fourteen; his uncle committed suicide in the same year.

      In 1921, Roethke entered Arthur Hill High School in Saginaw; at the age of thirteen, he already knew that he wanted to be a writer. Four years later, he entered the University of Michigan, and while there he wrote his first poetry. He graduated in 1929 and then pursued graduate study in English at Harvard University from 1930 to 1931. At Harvard, he further developed his interest in poetry and discovered he had a gift for it, encouraged by poet and faculty member Robert Hillyer. Two of

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