Abstract
The article looks at several contemporary poems to see how they succumb to sentimentality in their treatment of nature, while William Stafford's "Traveling through the Dark" does not .
Recommended Citation
Hudgins, Andrew
(1984)
""My Only Swerving": Sentimentality in Contemporary Poetry,"
Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991): Vol. 5:
Iss.
1, Article 2.
Available at:
https://surface.syr.edu/suscholar/vol5/iss1/2