ISBN: 0-8076-0973-0
Godina izdanja: 1980
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Prvo izdabje
Izdavač: George Braziller, New York
Povez: tvrd sa omotom
Broj strana: 64
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Simic’s "Classic Ballroom Dances" is a free-verse poem. It does not have a regular rhyme or meter. The poet uses a few internal rhymings within the lines. Apart from that, the text consists of a total of four quatrains or stanzas having four lines. Simic connects the idea of each stanza with the final one. Hence, there is no incongruity in the overall text. Regarding the point of view, it is written from a third-person speaker’s perspective. The speaker is none other than the poet himself.

The titular poem of Charles Simic’s poetry collection Classic Ballroom Dances (1980) is about the simple annals of life. Simic tries to connect the idea of Ballroom dancing, previously a social gathering for the privileged, to the daily activities of our lives. He can see beyond the veil of simplicity and capture the art: be it couples dancing amorously in a Union Hall or a grandmother wringing a chicken’s neck, there is art in each and every act of humankind.

(K-138)