Help me identify a poem in a specific introduction to a specific copy of Kate Chopin's The Awakening.

October 31, 2009 10:46 AM

Help me identify a poem in a specific introduction to a specific copy of Kate Chopin's The Awakening.

A couple of years ago I read The Awakening and remember being particularly struck by a poem in the introduction. I do not remember who wrote the poem, nor the introduction (two different people), but I do remember that the poem had to do with the sentiment of no matter how close we can get to another human being, we are fundamentally alone and separate. The person who wrote the introduction, I remember, was discussing another author, I can't remember the gender, who had influenced Chopin, or perhaps not Chopin, but the movement of women in writing at that time.

I realize that this is all very vague, but I know someone must have read the same copy that I did. It was a fairly recent copy as well, perhaps just a few years old.

Thank you!

posted by DeltaForce to writing & language (3 comments total)

Can you describe the cover of the edition?
posted by stresstwig at 11:25 AM on October 31

Rainer Maria Rilke: "Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."
posted by zadcat at 11:44 AM on October 31

Ah, thanks guys. Unfortunately I can't remember what the cover looks like. Seems I will have to go to the source, my old high school library and see if they still have the copy.

Thanks again!
posted by DeltaForce at 5:24 AM on November 2