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An Introduction to the Life of William Everson (6134 words, 23 pages)

William Everson was born in 1912 in Sacramento, California, and grew up in the San Joaquin Valley. He attended Fresno State College for a term, where he discovered the work of Robinson Jeffers. During World War II he served as a conscientious objector, then returned to the Bay Area to ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island (263 words, 2 pages)

Brad GoochReading through the stack of poems later in his apartment on West Fourth Street, Kochcame across for the first time "A True Account of Talking to the Sun at FireIsland," a poem that was to become a favorite anthology piece, which O'Hara hadn'tshown to anyone while he was alive. ... Read More

An Analysis of a Poet’s Life in Sympathy (834 words, 4 pages)

Jean Wagner"Sympathy" is a heartfelt cry of a poet who finds himself imprisoned amidtraditions and prejudices he feels powerless to destroy . . . . from Black Poets of the United States, from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes. Urbana University of Illinois Press, 1973. Copyright 1973 by the Board ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of And As A Poet by Sylvia Plath (4476 words, 20 pages)

Ellin Sarot"And as a poet," Sylvia Plath was asked by an interviewer inOctober 1962, "do you have a great and keen sense of the historic?""I am not a historian," Plath replied, but I find myself being more and more fascinated by history and now I find myself reading more and ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of No Swan So Fine (5291 words, 21 pages)

Pamela White Hadas"No Swan So Fine" asserts that there is no live swan, "no swan, withswart blind look askance and gondoliering legs, so fine" as the china one among itsfinely sculptured and polished flowers in the Louis XV candelabrum. The last half-line ofthe poem reads, simply and abruptly, "The king ... Read More

An Introduction to the History of Gulag Archipelago (1180 words, 5 pages)

John BeecherGulag Archipelago is in every bookshop window across thecountry. How smugly we congratulate ourselves on our putative freedom of expressionwithout fear of a crushing totalitarian bureaucracy. But search these same bookshops forthe works of contemporary American poets. If you can find any such at all they will beburied in ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Stings (3197 words, 14 pages)

Jeannine DobbsIn "Stings" (Ariel), she identifies with both the drones andthe queen, and reveals the conflict between her domestic and her poetic--herqueenly--selves I stand in a column Of winged, unmiraculous women, Honey-drudgers. I am no drudge Though for years I have eaten dust And dried plates with my dense hair. ... Read More

An Analysis of the Themes in Bishop’s Filling Station (2167 words, 10 pages)

Mutlu Konuk Blasing (1987)In "The Map this disjunction or questionable relation exists withinlanguage itself does Bishop start by questioning the color differences on the map, or doalliteration and rhyme call "shallows" forth from "shadows" togenerate the questions? In "Filling Station," Bishop exploits this processwhereby words of similar sounds but different ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Lost Roads Press and The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You (482 words, 2 pages)

C.D. Wright As one of the publishers of the Lost Roads Press, Wright was responsible for seeing into print The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You, the long poem completed in 1974 by the legendary Arkansas poet Frank Stanford who killed himself at age 30 in 1978. In ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of By The Road (8410 words, 38 pages)

James E. BreslinThis poem does not simply describe the physical qualities in alandscape its center is an act of perception, "the stark dignity of entrance," the slow penetration of a desolate landscape by an awakening observer. Wefollow the thrust of his imagination downward, through obstacles, to a new union with ... Read More

A Comparison of Poems by Amy Lowell (3356 words, 15 pages)

Cary NelsonAmy Lowell's series of poems from 1919including"Decade," "Opal," "Madonna of the Evening Flowers," and"Venus Transiens"--are among the most elegantly passionate love poems in modernAmerican poetry. A reevaluation of her career might begin with a love poem like "TheWeather-Cock Points South" (1919), whose reordering of the natural world in layersaround ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Literature by Baraka (1487 words, 8 pages)

Jay R. Berry Baraka pays careful attention to rhythm, even in poems that do not employ or experimentwith traditional forms. "SOS," the opening poem on Black Art, containsshort, terse, telegraphic phrases that are reminiscent of a radio transmission Calling black people Calling all black people, man woman child Wherever you ... Read More

An Introduction to the Analysis of a Sonnet (941 words, 4 pages)

Chris BaldickSonnet a lyric poem comprising 14 rhyming lines of equal length iambicpentameters in English, alexandrines in French, hendecasyllables in Italian. The rhymeschemes of the sonnet follow two basic patterns. (1) The Italian sonnet (also called the Petrarchan sonnet after the most influential of the Italian sonneteers) comprises an 8-line ... Read More

An Introduction to Weldon Kees Performs Weldon Kees (3878 words, 16 pages)

Weldon Kees Performs Weldon Kees The Songs of 1953-1955 by Edward Brunnera review of Holiday Rag a CD from Badger Press, Pittsburgh, Pa.,distributed by Barry Thorpe, P.O. Box 888, Trinidad, CA 95570e-mail bthorperadc.comNOTE Throughout this review we haveprovided audio excerpts from the CD in RealAudio format.A RealAudio player is required. ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of The Dream Songs (806 words, 4 pages)

William J. MartzThe complexity of the problem of responding to "The Dream Songs" as a wholepoem inheres, finally, in the relationship between the conception of the character ofHenry and the degree of success of the individual Dream Song. It will be instructive toselect a fairly representative Dream Song from 77 ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Lowell’s Review of 77 Dream Songs (2263 words, 10 pages)

Robert Lowell Lowells review of 77 Dream Songs appeared in the prestigious (and newly-created) New York Review of Books. He concluded by quoting all of Dream Song 29 and adding these closing remarksThe voice of theman becomes one with the voice of the child here, as their combined rhythm sobs ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Berryman (442 words, 2 pages)

Jeffrey Alan TriggsThis is a subtly organized poem, whose theme is well realized in its language. Theincessant "ands," the persistent refusal of the syntax to come to rest, theliterate colloquial tone all contribute to the poem's feeling of restless dissatisfaction.Berryman satirizes in particular middle class ecstasy over the common functioning ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Sojourn in the Whale by Moore a Great Feminist (1885 words, 9 pages)

Margaret HollyProbably Moore's most overtly feminist poem is "Sojourn inthe Whale," a piece that was apparently composed around the time of the poet's firstserious literary foray to New York City. This trip in December of 1915, on which she metfuture friends and editors like Alfred Kreymborg and visited Alfred Stieglitz's ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Counting Small-Boned Bodies a Short Poem of Ten Lines (1232 words, 5 pages)

William HeyenThe lament of an efficiency expert, or of one of our generals, or of a Silas Marnerwhose gold coins are the corpses of men with black hair. . . . from The Far Point (1969)George S. Lensing and Ronald Moran"Counting Small-Boned Bodies" is a short poem of ten lines ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Lorde (1132 words, 5 pages)

Gloria T. HullHowever uneasy her identity may be, it is imperative for Lordethat she read the world as a meaningful text and not as a series of interesting andelusive propositions. For her, to "read" is (1) to decipher--like the musicianPrince--the signs of the times, (2) to decode--as the lesbiangay community ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Poetry by Amy Lowell (6413 words, 29 pages)

Annette KolodnyIn many ways, Amy Lowell anticipated the recent feminist critiqueof Bloomian poetics when, in 1925, she applied his question "For why do men writepoems?" to "we women who write poetry" Taking us by and large, we're a queer lot We women who write poetry. And when you think How ... Read More

The Relationship of a Rational Man and Irrational Nature in the Sheep Child by James Dickey (2363 words, 10 pages)

Joan BobbittIn "The Sheep Child," Dickey once again depicts the relationship betweenrational man and irrational nature through a bizarre image. Though Georgia farm boys admitthe masturbatory function of nature in their wild need "to couple with anything"(1.12), their fear of the product of complete irrationality in man, the sheep child,forces ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Georgia Douglas Johnson and Alice Dunbar-Nelson (470 words, 3 pages)

Mary LoeffelholzGeorgia Douglas Johnson and Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) werethe elder mentors mentors of the renaissance generation of black women poets. Wary ofcombining racial issues with poetry, Dunbar-Nelson wrote some of her best-known poemsprotesting other ills than racism "I Sit and Sew" is the dramatic monologue ofa woman stifled by the ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Song of Myself (1437 words, 6 pages)

James DoughertyThe 1855 "Song of Myself" had announced that the "word of themodern" was "a word en masse," and eventually Whitman would revise this1867 Inscription to affirm that "En-Masse" was also "the wordDemocratic." In a modern, democratic society, as Tocqueville had said, nointermediate allegiances stand between the individual citizen and ... Read More

An Introduction to the Literature by an American Poet Gary Snyder (5499 words, 25 pages)

Nick Selby Forthe American poet Gary Snyder the poem is a work-place. The idea of work, I shall arguethroughout this paper, is central to Snyder's ecological poetics because it allows him tothrow explicit attention on to the act of writing the land'. This is clear from hiswell- known environmental concerns, ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Mantis (5126 words, 21 pages)

"Mantis," like so much of Zukofskys work, bothreflects his tuition in the "school of Pound" and demonstrates the extent towhich he brings a self-consciousness beyond Pound's to that tradition. Like Pound's"Sestina Altaforte," "Mantis" is a sestina, a seven-stanza poem in aform invented by Dante's "miglior fabbro," the Troubadour Arnaut Daniel. ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Kenneth Rexroth (3231 words, 13 pages)

Sam Hamill and Elaine Laura KleinerBy turns revolutionary and conservative, simultaneously spiritualand worldly, Asian and Western, Kenneth Rexroth created what must surely be regarded asthe most original synthesis of transcendent metaphysical and erotic verse ever written byan American poet. A polyglot iconoclast, Rexroth was steeped in the world's spiritual andliterary ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Sestina (3539 words, 13 pages)

Definition of the SestinaSestina One of the most difficult and complex of the various French lyrical forms. Thesestina is a poem consisting of six six-line STANZAS and a three-line ENVOY. Itmakes no use of the REFRAIN. This form is usually unrimed, the effect of RIME being takenover by a fixed ... Read More

An Introduction to the Contemporary American Indian Writers (4427 words, 19 pages)

Contemporary American Indian writers are mediators. By that I donot mean that they are spokesmen or apologists for a cultural sphere, but rather that theyare participants in two cultural and literary traditions. Through their work, they expressamazing potential for synthesis and creation. They address two audiences -- white andIndian, or ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Ode to the Confederate Dad (3680 words, 15 pages)

Louis D. Rubin, Jr.That poem is 'about' solipsism, a philosophical doctrine which says that wecreate the world in the act of perceiving it or about Narcissism, or any other ism thatdenotes the failure of the human personality to function objectively in nature andsociety." That poem, as Tate goes on to ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013