1. Corn Maze
By: Justin Long

2. Biographical Information:
David Barber is the author of two collections of poems published by Northwestern University Press: Wonder Cabinet (2006) and The Spirit Level (1995), the winner of the Terrence Des Pres Prize. He is poetry editor of The Atlantic, where he has been a staff editor since 1994.
His poems and reviews have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, New England Review, Poetry, Paris Review, The New Republic, Parnassus, The New Criterion, Slate, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many other places.
Barber has taught writing and literature at Middlebury College, the Harvard Writing Program, MIT’s Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, and the Emerson College graduate writing program. He has also been writer-in-residence at Cornell University, Northwestern University, and Lynchburg College. He has appeared as a guest editor at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference since 2006, and currently serves as a final judge for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize. He also writes on natural history, music, and art.

3. Stanza 1 Here is where You can get nowhere Faster than ever
Referring to the corn maze.
Here is where
You can get nowhere
Faster than ever
As you go under
Deeper and deeper
The poet creates imagery in this poem:
He creates an image of a corn maze, and how it feels to be in a corn maze.

4. Stanza 2 In the fertile smother Of another acre Like any other
You can’t peer over
And then another
End Rhyme
This means that every corn maze seems to be the same

5. Stanza 3 And everywhere You veer or hare There you are
Farther and farther
Afield than before
Imagery- This creates a picture of the corn being so tall that you cant see over it.

6. Stanza 4 But on you blunder In the verdant meander As if the answer
To looking for cover
Were to bewilder

7. Stanza 5 Your inner minotaur And near and far were
Neither here nor there
And where you are
Is where you were
This means that it all looks the same everywhere in the corn maze. It always looks like you are in the same place.

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9. Structure of the Poem
Here is where
You can get nowhere
Faster than ever
As you go under
Deeper and deeper
In the fertile smother
Of another acre
Like any other
You can’t peer over
And then another
And everywhere
You veer or hare
There you are
Farther and farther
Afield than before
But on you blunder
In the verdant meander
As if   the answer
To looking for cover
Were to bewilder
Your inner minotaur
And near and far were
Neither here nor there
And where you are
Is where you were
David Barber arranged this poem ”Corn Maze” to have:
5 stanzas
25 lines
5 lines per stanza
The poet uses imagery throughout the whole poem to create a picture in your head.