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    A Study Guide for Rick Barot's "Bonnard's Garden"
    A Study Guide for Rick Barot's "Bonnard's Garden"
    A Study Guide for Rick Barot's "Bonnard's Garden"
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    A Study Guide for Rick Barot's "Bonnard's Garden"

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    A Study Guide for Rick Barot's "Bonnard's Garden," 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 26, 2016
    ISBN9781535819794
    A Study Guide for Rick Barot's "Bonnard's Garden"

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      A Study Guide for Rick Barot's "Bonnard's Garden" - Gale

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      Bonnard's Garden

      Rickt Barot

      2001

      Introduction

      Rick Barot's poem Bonnard's Garden, like a Romantic painting, is filled with images of nature, such as flowers, vines, clouds, shrubs, birds, and deer. The meaning of the poem is obscure, and the language only hints at its subjects, as if the speaker is in a dreamlike trance—or, more accurately, as if the speaker were like the sleepwalking girl who wanders, unexpectedly, in and out of the poem. The work first appeared in the literary magazine Ploughshares in the Winter 2001–2002 issue and was then included in Barot's prize-winning first collection, The Darker Fall, published in

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