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Maxine Kumin

Statistics

Counts

Total Pages: 1.84
Total Words: 460
Total Characters: 2320
Number of Sentences: 29

Averages

Words per Sentences: 15.86
Characters per Words: 5.04

Readability

Flesch Reading Ease: 64.39
Fog Scale Level: 11.65
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 8.22

Maxine Kumin

     Maxine Kumin, who experienced many different views of the world through
travel, feels the most comfortable in New Hampshire, her rural home. In any area
that she travels, she always makes a similarity to her home, as expressed in her
poems.
     In her poem, “The Long Approach”, she is driving in her Saab hatchback
from Scranton to her farm in New Hampshire.  She also discusses her plane ride
back from Orlando to New Hampshire the week before. Throughout the poem she
makes references back to the animals she cares for and comes in contact with on
the farm. Her knowledge of rural life is shown, by describing details of
animals; such as, “eel-thin belly”, “life as loose as frogs”, “slag heaps stand
like sentries shot dead”, and “I'm going home with the light hand on the reins”.
     Next in her poem, “How It is”, she puts on a blue jacket that belonged
to her recently deceased friend, whom played a major role in her life. By
putting on the jacket, she tries to relive the past by, “...unwind(ing) it,
paste it together in a different collage...”. In this poem, Maxine Kumin, uses
plants to describe her feelings, as in; “scatter like milkweed” and “pods of the
soul”. These similes show what she sees and feels.
     “The Longing to be Saved”, is a dream, where her barn catches fire. “In
and out of dreams as thin as acetate.”  She visualizes herself getting the
horses out, but they “...

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