The Feast Of Stephen The Feast Of Stephen Poem By Anthony Evan Hecht

The Feast Of Stephen The Feast Of Stephen Poem By Anthony Evan Hecht With shameless blends of civet, musk and sweat, loud with the cap gun snapping of wet towels. under the steel ribbed cages of bare bulbs, in some such setting of thick basement pipes. and janitorial realities. boys for the first time frankly eye each other, inspect each others’ bodies at close range, and what they see is not so much another. I the coltish horseplay of the locker room, moist with the steam of the tiled shower stalls, with shameless blends of civet, musk and sweat, loud with the cap gun snapping of wet towels under the steel ribbed cages of bare bulbs, in some such setting of thick basement pipes and janitorial realities boys for the first time frankly eye each other, inspect each others’ bodies at.

The Feast Of Stephen The coltish horseplay of the locke… moist with the steam of the tiled… with shameless blends of civet, mu… loud with the cap gun snapping of… under the steel ribbed cages of ba…. The feast of stephen by anthony evan hecht. poets; poems; sign up; login; poet's page; poems; anthony evan hecht. 16 january 1923 20 october 2004 new york. Analysis (ai): in "the feast of stephen," anthony hecht explores the complexities of male identity and camaraderie through the lens of a locker room setting. the poem's initial stanzas depict the horseplay and physicality of the locker room as a form of self exploration, where boys confront and celebrate their own bodies in the presence of others. If ‘a voice at a séance’ gives the impression that hecht is a ‘straight’ poet who deals only in seriousness and graveness, this poem – one of his most widely anthologised, and definitely his most controversial – reminds us, as christopher ricks has pointed out, that hecht is far from po faced (elsewhere, in ‘the feast of stephen.

Opossum Screed The Feast Of Stephen Analysis (ai): in "the feast of stephen," anthony hecht explores the complexities of male identity and camaraderie through the lens of a locker room setting. the poem's initial stanzas depict the horseplay and physicality of the locker room as a form of self exploration, where boys confront and celebrate their own bodies in the presence of others. If ‘a voice at a séance’ gives the impression that hecht is a ‘straight’ poet who deals only in seriousness and graveness, this poem – one of his most widely anthologised, and definitely his most controversial – reminds us, as christopher ricks has pointed out, that hecht is far from po faced (elsewhere, in ‘the feast of stephen. • poems • anthony hecht • the feast of stephen. the feast of stephen. t. by . anthony hecht. i. the coltish horseplay of the locker room, moist with the steam. I . the coltish horseplay of the locker room, moist with the steam of the tiled shower stalls, with shameless blends of civet, musk and sweat, loud with the cap gun snapping of wet towels.