𝑨𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒍 | 𝗮 𝗽𝗼𝗲𝗺 𝗕𝘆 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗱𝗼𝗻 𝗞𝗲𝗲𝘀

Weldon Kees was born in Beatrice, Nebraska in 1914. He was presumed dead in 1955 when he took his sleeping bag and book, emptied out his bank account, and disappeared. He attended Doane College, University of Missouri, and University of Nebraska (poetry foundation). Poetry was only one of his great loves; he enjoyed painting and films as well. Unfortunately, Kees suffered from depression, presumably due to the fact that his parents forced religion up him and his siblings. Leaving him feeling deprived. “After the trial” was composed in 1941. It was during that time that the attack on Pearl Harbor, The Great Depression, and the Cold War were happening. People of that time turned to religion because they had nothing else. “After the Trial” contains multiple themes throughout the poem. One theme conveyed throughout the poem is a theme based of the basic premise of Christianity; all men are guilty of sin. This could possibly be Weldon Kees’ expressing feelings he has from his childhood.
This poem in particular was written in a verse form, sestina style (Boland and Strand). A sestina is blank verse lines of unequal feet with repetition of end words in a sequence through six sextets, ending in a tercet which contains all six end words, in this case (but not always) in medial and end line positions.

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