Original poem reprinted online here: "The End of the Weekend" by Anthony Hecht Originally read: October 8, 2013 More information about the Poet: Anthony Hecht If you took Samuel Maio's class on anything poetry related (research or workshop), then you ran into this poem. And no matter how many times we went over the poem, the professor always had his sympathies for the speaker. The poem is in rhymed sestets with the rhyme scheme of abcbca. I think the important thing to note is the wide separation of the "a" rhyme with the disjointedness of the "bc" rhymes which foreshadow the speakers separation of the moment. But the moment is this currently, "A dying firelight slides along the quirt / Of the cast iron cowboy where he leans / Against my father's books." So the zoom focus of a fire, a hearth perhaps, and of a symbol -- note that this leads to the realm of narrative, "The lariat / Whirls into darkness. My girl in skin tight jea...
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