Eden And My Generation Analysis

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The overall nature of the term place plays an important role throughout the poems written by Carrie Fountain given the dynamics and ambiguity of the term itself and what it represents. In the article, "Eden and My Generation," Larry Levis discusses that poets are not simply describing a geographical place in their poetry, but also a sense of embodiment and spirituality. In this way, it seems as though Fountain attempts to describe her own spiritual embodiments throughout her various poems. However, according to Levis, what is unique about these places is that we can never revisit them except in the words written by the poet.
When it comes to the 'places' describes by Fountain in her poems, many seem to involved isolated man-made locations