Glass By A.R. Ammons

Biographical information

• A.R. Ammons was born on February 18,1926• He died February 25, 2001, • He went to Wake Forest University• born in rural North Carolina• He wrights about how he grew up in north Carolina on a cotton and

tobacco farm during the great depression.

Literary & poetic Elements : Organization

• 4 stanzas• 6 lines per stanzas in stanzas 1,2,3• 12 lines in stanza 4 • The poem is a ballad

Literary & poetic Elements : speaker• The speaker is looking at the bird• I know this because • “he manages, to encompasses denser meaning”• It show that he’s looking at the bird

Literary & poetic Elements : images

Literary & poetic Elements : poetic terms