I Once Knew a Woman
Title: I Once Knew a Woman
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 939 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
I Once Knew a Woman
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 939 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
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…showed last 75 words of 939 total…just three months of each other. At the age of 27 he suffered several mental breakdowns and was hospitalized for three months. And once again just three years after this poem was published he was hospitalized for three months for the same reason. Theodore died at the age of 55 after receiving a Pulitzer Prize 11 years earlier. Roethke is now known today as one of the most distinguished and widely read American poets of the twentieth century.