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An Introduction to All My Pretty Ones Which Opens on the Truth the Dead Know (854 words, 4 pages)

J. D. McClatchyAll My Pretty Ones opens on "The Truth the Dead Know," which is theirabsolute isolation, against which the poet fights to save both herself and her deadparents. Her father's death, three months after her mother's, intervened not only betweenthe different concerns of these first two books but also ... Read More

An Analysis of Emily Dickinson’s Volcanic Punctuation (431 words, 2 pages)

Kamilla DenmanUnlike the exclamation mark, the dash that dominates the prolificperiod is a horizontal stroke, on the level of this world. It both reaches out and holdsat bay. Its origins in ellipsis connect it semantically to planets and cycles (rather thanlinear time and sequential grammatical progression), as well as to ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Poem about a Dove by Steve Garrison (3348 words, 13 pages)

Steve GarrisonThe title poem of the volume deals with the difficulty of finding theright path. The poem's speaker stops his car to push a recently killed doe off themountain road, where the carcass is a driving hazard, into a canyon. Her belly is stillwarm the doe is pregnant, and the ... Read More

The Motif and Meaning of Power in the Poetry Muriel Rukeyser (2315 words, 11 pages)

Louise KerteszWe are meant to hold these clusters of meaning in the mind as they reveal the fullnessof reality. Some of the meanings the poet is allowing to expand into their conteallationsare these in "Power" death is both finality and source of power but in anothersense, one cannot say that ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Black Dada Nilismus by Baraka (487 words, 2 pages)

M. L. RosenthalIndeed, American sensibility has in the past decade suffered a renewed exposure toviolence in ways we did not expect and hardly yet realize. One poetic result is a morbid,sickened assimilation of the shock into the language of feeling generally. . . . Aninstance of what I am talking ... Read More

An Introduction to the History and the Literature of Native American Writers (1121 words, 5 pages)

Robin Riley FastFor many Native American writers, issues of audience and community are vexed by thequestion of "What is ethical to tell?" Can tradition be offered as a means tocommonality with an eclectic audience? These writers might, for example, honor traditionby acknowledging in their writing the stories that are their ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Jazz Vocalist in a Poem by Kaufman (1401 words, 6 pages)

Stephen E. HendersonKaufmans poem suggests the scatting of the jazz vocalist,and if its form, including the length of the lines, were determined by music, one wouldprobably be justified in calling it a song, or simply a musical composition with a minimaltone range (see Kostelanetz, The End of Intelligent Writing 373). ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Lola Ridge’s Poetry (5356 words, 30 pages)

F. Hackett"Lola Ridge's Poetry" One ofthe hardest things in life, especially literary life, is to admit one's significantemotions. Appropriate emotions are quite adifferent story. Almost everyone, fromPresident Wilson down to the cheapest writer of advertising copy, has had practice inmeeting circumstance with just the right kind of propitiatory words. But ... Read More

An Introduction to the Reasons for Reading Poetry (11202 words, 40 pages)

WHY WE SHOULD READ POETRYWHY should one read Poetry? That seems to me a good deal likeasking Why should one eat? One eats because one has to, to support life, but every timeone sits down to dinner one does not say, I must eat this meal so that I may ... Read More

An Analysis of Thomas McGrath’s “Crash Report” (1155 words, 5 pages)

John MarshWhat makes Thomas McGraths "Crash Report" so immediately intriguing isthe decidedly anti-populistfor this famously populist poetlast stanza. McGrathchallenges his readers to "examine a case on record," to make sense of theapparent contradiction between calling two grossly unequal deathsone"real" (going "down over Paramashiru"), the other "phony"(the result of "joy-riding"equally heroic. ... Read More

An Analysis of Crane Crosby’s “Shadows of the Sun” (262 words, 2 pages)

Sy KahnOn Crosby and CraneCrosbys own books of poetry and his diaries, Shadowsof the Sun, testify that he apprehended and rendered reality in much the same way asCrane. For example, both shared an enthusiasm for the technology of the century and saw inthe symbol of the machine a dynamic expression ... Read More

A Review of the Bettsy Erkkira’s “A Word Out of the Sea” (10011 words, 43 pages)

Helen E. PriceOne day, in 1858, I think, Whitman came to see us, and after talking awhile onvarious matters, he announced, a little diffidently I thought, that he had written a newpiece. In answer to our inquiries, he said it was about a mocking bird, and was founded ona real ... Read More

An In-depth Analysis of the Poem Richard Cory (4142 words, 17 pages)

Lloyd MorrisThe dramatist sets in operation a chain of circumstances in which his characters areunconsciously brought to book by their own past. The method of the naturalistic novelistis quite different absolved of the necessity of a demonstration, he tends to be less andless concerned with incident and to become preoccupied ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Coon Song by A. R. Ammons (1732 words, 8 pages)

Thomas Dilworth"Coon Song" by A. R. Ammons is a remarkably metamorphic literary experience.It seems to deconstruct itself by denying its opening narrative descriptionabout araccoon surrounded by hunting dogsin order to express something beyond the range ofnarration and description. The narrative is broken off by the poet's direct address to thereader, ... Read More

An Analysis of the Topic of the Joruney of Tai-me (2385 words, 11 pages)

Kenneth M. RoemerMomaday's Major WorksThe Journey of Tai-me. Santa Barbara Privately Printed, 1967.House Made of Dawn. New York Harper Row, 1968.The Way to Rainy Mountain. Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press, 1969.Angle of Geese and Other Poems. Boston Godine, 1974.The Gourd Dancer. New York Harper Row, 1976.The Names A Memoir. ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of John Coltrane a Saxophonist and a Composer (3275 words, 14 pages)

James C. HallCOLTRANE, JOHN (1926-1967), saxophonist, composer, and iconicfigure. John Coltrane's immersion in modern jazz took place in bands led by Eddie Vinson,Dizzy Gillespie, and Johnny Hodges. In 1955 he joined the Miles Davis quintet and was soonidentified as one of the most talented tenor saxophonists of the era. The ... Read More

How Adrian Louis’s “A Colossal American Copulation” Borrows from Walt Whitman (724 words, 3 pages)

John MarshAdrian Louis's "A Colossal American Copulation" borrows heavily from WaltWhitman, whose poetics have been central to much of the American poetry that would follow.Louis, though, appropriates (as Ginsberg's poetry does) the free verse and culturalcatalogues that Whitman used to celebrate and cohere a mid-nineteenth century America forits own later ... Read More

An Introduction to the History of the Participants in Cary Nelson’s Fall 2001 in Contemporary American Poetry (8037 words, 33 pages)

This dialogue took place online among the participants in Cary Nelson's fall 2001 graduate seminar in contemporary American poetry. Ed Brunner, compiler of the notes to Tolson's LIBRETTO, joined us from Southern Illinois University.Entry 1 Ryan CullTolson's "Libretto" and the Good Gray BardThough Tolson himself identified T. S. Eliot and ... Read More

The Cynical Assessment of Modern Romance in Dorothy Parker’s Poem “Unfortunate Coincidence” (869 words, 4 pages)

Rhonda PettitMany of Dorothy Parker's poems are remembered for their cynical assessment of modernromance, and "Unfortunate Coincidence" is no exception. This six-line poemoffers a poetic syllogism in which the first two lines state one condition (a woman'spassionate declaration of love), the next two lines state a second condition (a man'spassionate ... Read More

An Introduction to the Literary Analysis of the Literature by Black American Poets (581 words, 3 pages)

Sagri Dhairyam"Coal" . . . was, and is, widely read to be affirmingan unself-conscious Black essence. . . . The controlling metaphor of coal, staple fuel,celebrates "the total black, being spokenFrom the earth's inside," whichbecomes in its idealized form, the jewel, diamond. In the this reading, the poem's finalvisionary lines ... Read More

The Admonition in The Clerks Reveal a Permanent Attitude (779 words, 4 pages)

Ellsworth BarnardThis harmony and proportion are found most often, in Robinson's view, in lives that areotherwise undistinguished. The admonition in The Clerks reveals a permanentattitude, although in later life he would probably not have stated it so directly And you that ache so much to be sublime, And you that ... Read More

An Analysis of the Feminist, Lesbian Poetry of Judy Grahn (2008 words, 8 pages)

Linda GarberIn the shorter poems, Grahn often explores love and romance in relation to perceptionsof women's beauty. As in all else, Grahn has the capacity to be humorous, if"macabre" (Martinez 49), when approaching "the problem for a lesbianfeminist of writing about women's beauty without fetishizing it" (Montefiore 83). "I have ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Emily Dickinson’s Letter to Colonel Higginson (3015 words, 13 pages)

CIRCUMFERENCE"My business is circumference."Emily Dickinson in a letter to Colonel Higginson, July 1862.For some centuries English critics have been at work to revise orapply the term metaphysical given John Donne and his school. The word does verywell, I think, if we use it of poetry, to describe a state of ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Work by Claude McKay (398 words, 4 pages)

1889 Claude McKay born September 15.1896 Goes to live with brother in asmall town near Montego Bay, Jamaica.1907 Assigned as apprentice towheelwright. Meets first significant patron, Walter Jekyll.1911 Joins constabulary in SpanishTown, Jamaica.1912 Publishes Songs of Jamaicaand Constab Ballads. Comes to United States and enrolls at Tuskegee Institute inAlabama.1913-1914 Attends ... Read More

An Timeline of the Life and Works of Countee Cullen an American Poet (358 words, 3 pages)

1903 Countee Cullen born in Louisville, Kentucky,according to Mrs. Ida Mae Cullen, his widow. (Cullen sometimes claimed New York as hisbirthplace still other testimony had it as Baltimore.)1918 Adopted by the Reverend and Mrs. Frederick A.Cullen of the Salem Methodist Episcopal Church in Harlem, New York City. Enters DeWittClinton High ... Read More

An Introduction to the Literature by Marcello Mastroiani (1627 words, 8 pages)

Charredfrom small press review28.7-8 (JulyAugust 1998)Love After the Riots.By Juan Felipe Herrera1996 62pp Pa Curbstone Press,321 Jackson Street, Willimantic, CT 06226.10.95. Sesshu FosterThe poet as Marcello Mastroiani, and Fellini back with us directing,shooting the movie of the L.A. riots of 1992 (the sure aftermath of La Dolce Vita, in theAmerican ... Read More

Literary Analysis of the Poem “Cassandra” by Louise Bogan (1149 words, 5 pages)

Elizabeth Frank"Cassandra" is . . . an impassioned outburst by the woman whofeels the terrible burden of her gift of poetic speech. The mode is emblematic orquasi-allegorical, as it had been in "Stanza" ("No longer burn the handsthat seized"), as if the poem were inscribed or engraved as a motto ... Read More

An Introduction to the Essay on the Topic of the Spokane Tribe’s Casino (1137 words, 7 pages)

Love, hunger, money... and other not-so-facetious reasons why the Spokane Indians want to bet oncasinosby Sherman AlexieI've just returned from the Spokane Tribe'scasino-and-gambling mecca at the western edge of our reservation, and I may have to enterthe federal Witness Relocation Program because I have seen and know too much. I ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Poem a Stared Story by William Stafford (1979 words, 8 pages)

Kenneth C. Mason"Carriers of the Dream Wheel" defines better than any poem Iknow the spirit of the oral tradition. William Stafford, in his poem, "A StaredStory," addresses the Indian "survivors" of the twentieth century, who are"slung here in our cynical constellation." These people must now "live byimagination." Momaday's poem shows ... Read More

An Analysis of the Topic of Anne Sexton’s Poetry (3710 words, 14 pages)

Diana Hume GeorgeAnne Sexton's poetry tells stories that are immenselysignificant to mid-twentieth-century artistic and psychic life. Sexton understood herculture's malaise through her own, and her skill enabled her to deploy metaphoricalstructures at once synthetic and analytic, In other words, she assimilated thesuperficially opposing but deeply similar ways of thinking represented ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013