How Long to Read What Must Happen

How Long Does it Take to Read What Must Happen?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 40 minutes to read What Must Happen by Jeffrey Wainwright

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

What Must Happen is Jeffrey Wainwright's most intimate and elegiac collection of poems to date, recalling lost parents, relations and friends. Shared childhood memories, and the history of hometown Stoke-on-Trent, connect Wainwright's personal themes to wider historical subjects. A sequence of contemporary hymns to Roman gods depicts Jupiter, 'elbows on the bar, nursing a beer', while a homage to twentieth-century Italian painter Ottone Rosai asks, twenty times, 'What is there to an empty street?' One answer: 'the simply sunlit, / the clearly pure, / the assent to less'. Another: 'plums / so prolifific they colour out / the leaves'. Rather than polarising the playful and the solemn, Wainwright's poems examine their complex interactions. Though composed primarily in free verse, symmetries and refrains span the collection as a whole, imparting a tight, vibrant clarity. The poems in What Must Happen are painted with a hair-fine brush, swiftft and precise, unwilling to rest at an adequate fifiction as long as an inadequate truth remains in reach. 'There are these things and sometimes the shadow of these things / but they will not be seen apart.'

How long is What Must Happen?

What Must Happen by Jeffrey Wainwright is 100 pages long, and a total of 25,000 words.

This makes it 34% the length of the average book. It also has 31% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read What Must Happen Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 16 minutes to read What Must Happen aloud.

What Reading Level is What Must Happen?

What Must Happen is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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