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An Introduction to the Effect of Certain Forms on Poems (1168 words, 4 pages)

A Note on Music and the MusicalCarl RakosiIn the course of tracing the effect of certain forms on my poems,I stumbled on to an interesting connection to music. Needless to say, certain forms weremore suitable to certain subject matter than others. The long line, for instance, wasobviously better suited to ... Read More

An Introduction to the Poems by Marilyn Chin (8700 words, 38 pages)

Marilyn Chin's "I" poems do not merely reflect the richand varied modes of Asian American feminist literary theory which predate her work, butare themselves acts of theorizing. By referring to Chin's poems as such, I intentionallyriff on the work of Barbara Christian, Katie King, and Lisa Lowe. In the influentialarticle ... Read More

An Introduction to the Analysis of the Variety of Diction and Tone in Poems (497 words, 2 pages)

Robert von HallbergThe variety of diction and tone in this particular poem results notjust from a freedom from any one stiff loyalty but more from an even-handedness that,given the circumstances, ought to be authoritative. The first line sets the casualness ofhis comrades (he once wrote "heaped," but "flung" better insists ... Read More

The Use of Iconoclastic Rejection in Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Poems (655 words, 3 pages)

Joshua EckhardtSeveral of Millays sonnets are characterized by aniconoclastic rejection of the common sense regarding so-called romanticinter-personal relationships. I, Being Born a Woman and Distresseddisassociates sex from commitment, whereas Love is not Blind separates sexualattractiveness from beauty. Similarly, the speaker of Well, I Have Lost Yourefuses to submit to the ... Read More

An Analysis of O’Hara’s Collected Poems (1467 words, 6 pages)

Mark DotyUrbane, ironic, sometimes genuinely celebratory and often wildly funny, O'Hara wouldallow a realm of material and associations alien to academic verse to pour into his poemsthe camp icons of movie stars of the twenties and thirties, the daily landscape of socialactivity in Manhattan, jazz music, telephone calls from friends ... Read More

An Analysis of the Life and Poems of Audre Lorde an American Poet (3115 words, 13 pages)

Beverly Threatt Kulii (BK), Ann E. Reuman (AR), and Ann Trapasso (AT)American writer Audre Lorde names herself as "a blackfeminist lesbian mother poet" because her identity is based on the relationship ofmany divergent perspectives once perceived as incompatible. Thematically, she expresses orexplores pride, love, anger, fear, racial and sexual oppression, ... Read More

An Analysis of Robert Hayden’s Poems and Poetic Writing (998 words, 5 pages)

Mark A. SandersRobert Hayden looms as one of the most technically gifted andconceptually expansive poets in American and African American letters. Attending to thespecificities of race and culture, Hayden's poetry takes up the sobering concerns ofAfrican American social and political plight yet his poetry posits race as a meansthrough which ... Read More

A Look at the Themes in Lawson Fusao Inada’s Poems (570 words, 3 pages)

Bob GrotjohnInada refuses to separate the internment from abroader American experience. In a poem that follows his "legends," Inadainsistently maps the internment onto the American landscape (here I think of recentefforts at turning the Manzanar camp into a national park). In "ConcentrationConstellation," he draws imaginary lines from point to point ... Read More

An Analysis of the Creative Value of the Alienated Intelligence in Ammons’s Poems (9305 words, 43 pages)

Bonnie CostelloIn his best poems Ammons demonstrates the creative value of thealienated intelligence. He turns his burden to a levity with a truly happy tolerancebetween precept and particular. One of Ammons's most famous poems, "Corsons Inlet" (Collected Poems 149-51),is constructed on just such a rhetorical model of appositional rather than ... Read More

The Image of American Women and Social Criticism in Dorothy Parker’s Poems (683 words, 3 pages)

Suzanne L. BunkersDorothy Parker was not only a wit also a chronicler and a harsh critic of 1920s-1930ssocial roles. Her poems and short stories are not simply "cute" or"funny" they also function as a vehicle for social criticism. Of particularimportance is Parker's use of stereotypical female characters to satirize, more ... Read More

An Introduction to the Analysis of American Indian Poems by Alexie (1923 words, 7 pages)

Alexie on his poetic inspiration"Alex Kuos poetry workshop was the first place I ever read contemporarypoems, especially contemporary American Indian poems. And I read one poem in particularthat was revolutionary and revelatory. The line was, Im in the resrvation ofmy mind. It was by Adrian Louis, a Paiute Indian poet. ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poems by Edward Estlin Cummings (411 words, 2 pages)

Rushworth M. Kidder (1979)..."Thy fingers make early flowers of," is justified forinclusion in the "Songs" sequence by a graceful lyricism built from theliterary counterparts of musical devices. Theme and variation...refrain...and a carefulattention to rhyme mark the piece as more song than statement. Employing a free-versecadence within a rather tight structure, ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poems by Sarah Moore Grimke (489 words, 3 pages)

Gloria T. HullGrimk's poetry accords very closely with her theoretical description of how shewrites. Being expressions of the moment, her poems are usually brief. They present thescene or thought as swiftly as possible in sharp, concrete images, and then abandon it.This trait causes critics (like Robert Kerlin, for example) to ... Read More

An Analysis of the Topic of Alexie’s Poems and Stories in First Indian on the Moon (1076 words, 5 pages)

Susan Berry Brill de RamirezAlexies poems and stories in First Indian on the Moon embrace bothdiscursive and conversive styles in a conjunction that is inevitably disjunctive,disconcerting, and effective in communicating his worlds and words. Alexie . . . writes ina powerful voice that speaks of the realities of worlds that ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poems by Thylias Moss, an American Poet (3554 words, 13 pages)

Louis Pasteur Elementary School was one of the kiosks of paradise in which I soughtrefuge. It was the place that offered me the profundity I craved, each semester expandingconcentrically, the universe enlarging as my mind did, so that my knowledge of it neveractually increased in fact, its expansion rendered me ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Oppen on His Poems an Interview with L. S. Dembo (3312 words, 15 pages)

George Oppenfrom "Oppen on His Poems," An Interview with L.S. DemboD. The "Image of the Engine" seemed to me to be a very charming poem, thefirst section in any case. "Likely as not a ruined head gasketSpitting at everypower stroke, if not a crank shaft." And you talk about the ... Read More

An Overview of the Poems by Suzanne Juhasz (1122 words, 5 pages)

Suzanne JuhaszThe "superior objectivist poem," her "AnEgyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish," is a poemappreciating art itself according to criteria that can be applied easily to herown poetry. Uncharacteristically, she begins not with the physical details ofthe fish-bottle but with the practical and moral situation that ... Read More

An Analysis of John Crowe Ransom’s Poems “Dead Boy” and “Janet Waking” (1208 words, 6 pages)

Vivienne Koch (1950)Ransom begins to take possession of another order of the fabulous. This is the fable ofchildhood, childhood viewed asinnocence, as a necessary condition to knowledge which corrupts, and which is difficultand tragic in its essence. The ultimate,permissive grace given to this kind of knowledge is most luminous in ... Read More

An Analysis on William Stafford’s Poems (1223 words, 6 pages)

Leonard NathanThe poem never alludes directly to its subject except in the title. Theawful potential is seen through the anticipatory behavior of the lizard, and describedwith understated detachment. Direct treatment of such subjects tends to be shrilly trite,hysterically accusing, and sometimes merely self-pitying, as though, in search of termscongruent with ... Read More

An Overview of the Speak by Philip Levine and his Last Volume of Poems (699 words, 3 pages)

William H. PritchardThe most memorable speaker in Philip Levine's last volume of poems wasa pig, who, being led to market, contemplates himself with some admiration "It'swonderful how I jog on four honed-down ivory toes my massive buttocks slipping likeoiled parts with each light step." Haughtily determined to see it through, ... Read More

An Analysis of the Topic of the Interesting Aspects and the Homoeritic Poems (512 words, 2 pages)

James SmethurstOne of the most interesting aspects of many of these openly homoerotic poems is thelinking of explicit homoeroticism with a miscegenation of black and white. PerhapsCullen's purpose in making the couples inter-racial was to heighten a sense oftransgressive sex that also obscured something of the nature of the real ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem Mill Doors from Chicago Poems (1993 words, 13 pages)

from Chicago Poems (1916)MILL-DOORS You never come back.I say good-by when I see you going in the doors,The hopeless open doors that call and waitAnd take you then for--how many cents a day?How many cents for the sleepy eyes and fingers?I say good-by because I know they tap your wrists,In ... Read More

An Analysis of Some Poems from Enough Rope (2305 words, 20 pages)

Threnody Lilacs blossom just as sweet Now my heart is shattered. If I bowled it down the street, Who's to say it mattered? If there's one that rode away What would I be missing? Lips that taste of tears, they say, Are the best for kissing. Eyes that watch the ... Read More

A Discussion of Language and Composition of Poems (1494 words, 7 pages)

Susan HoweLanguage is a wild interioriy. I am lost in the refuge of its dark life.Poets are always beginning again. They sail away to a place they hope they can name.Linguistic nature is always foreign. Grammar bales the darkness open. Only a few strikehome. They remember and acknowledge each other.. ... Read More

An Introduction to the Literary Analysis of the Poems by Dickinson (5568 words, 22 pages)

Gerhard FriedrichThis poem seems to present two major problems to the interpreter.First, what is the significance of the buzzing fly in relation to the dying person, andsecond, what is the meaning of the double use of "see" in the last line? Ananalysis of the context helps to clear up these ... Read More

An Analysis of the Topic of the Three Poems by Emily Dickinson (8059 words, 30 pages)

YVOR WINTERSThe three poems which combine Emily Dickinson's greatest power with her finestexecution are strangely on much the same theme, both as regards the idea embodied and asregards the allegorical embodiment 293. They deal with the inexplicable fact of change,of the absolute cleavage between successive states of being, and it ... Read More

An Analysis of the Lesbian Poems The Center of The Dream of a Common Language by Judith McDaniel (6691 words, 28 pages)

Judith McDanielThe center of The Dream of a Common Language is a group of lesbian love poems,originally published as a separate booklet. . . . In these poems Rich shows us a glimpseof the power generated by love, specifically the love of women for women You've kissed my hair to ... Read More

A Discussion of the Poems Drifters and Homosuburbiensis by Bruce Dawe (700 words, 1 pages)

Discuss 2 of Dawe's poems which illustrates his belief that ordinary things in life are a good subject for poetry.Bruce Dawe poems illustrate his version of "ordinary". The poems I have studied of his work have been about life and how people deal with everyday living. Such poems as Drifters ... Read More

An Overview of the Concept of Poems and an Analysis of the Poem The World is Too Much With us by William Wordsworth (576 words, 1 pages)

Poems are a particular way an author shows to the reader of what he feels and thinks about the actions of the world. In the poems The World is Too Much With us and The Chimney Sweeper both poets make the reader feel piety and disgust of human Nature. They ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poems of William Wordsworth, an English Poet (975 words, 2 pages)

William Wordsworths description of his poetry in Preface to Lyrical Ballads gives the impression that it feel much like a modern newspaper to a reader basic and with wide appeal. He emphasizes the idea of simplicity and familiarity of both topic and language, arguing the superiority of a poem that ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013