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An Introduction to the History of the Fugitive a Poetry Magazine Published in Nashville (793 words, 4 pages)

The Fugitive was a poetry magazine published in Nashville, Tennessee from April 1922 to December 1925, a total of nineteen issues. Its editors and several frequent contributors became known as "the Fugitives" Donald Davidson, James Marshall Frank, Sidney Mttron Hirsch, Stanley Johnson, John Crowe Ransom, Alec B. Stevenson, Allen Tate, ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Patriarchal Poetry by Stein (9177 words, 37 pages)

Though Stein's extensive writings on art and composition issue anelaborate poetic theory, the task of reading a Stein poem remains formidable. Heraesthetic of excess, which renders most of the poems long and difficult, places heavydemands on the reader. An example of the kind of writing Stein's theories produce is thecrucial ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poetry of Theodore Roethke (634 words, 3 pages)

Karl MalkoffTHE FLIGHT. It is, in Roethke's words, "a terrified running away -with alternate periods of hallucinatory waiting . . . the protagonist . . . is huntinglike a primitive, for some animistic suggestion, some clue to existence from thesub-human." Fishing in "an old wound," the repository of mental scars, ... Read More

A Research on Anthology of Modern American Poetry in Twentieth Century (611 words, 4 pages)

Dr. Norman Finkelstein, Xavier UniversityTextsNelson, ed., Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford UP)Accompanying website for Modern American Poetry www.english.uiuc.edumapsCourse handouts and texts on e-reserveModern American Poetry Rupture and ContinuityThe first half of the 20th century, especially the years around WorldWar I, witnessed unprecedented changes in literature, as well as in ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Poetry of Advocacy by Martin Espada (788 words, 4 pages)

Ryan CullMartin Espada has sought to write a "poetryof advocacy" for "those who do not get the chance to speak." In describingsuch a poetic project that inherently suggests an inseparable intertwining of hisaesthetics and politics, Espada has explained that I see not only history but personal experience as . . ... Read More

An Overview of the Poetry of James Dickey (5571 words, 22 pages)

Laurence LiebermanOne of Dickey's most sustaining and pervasive faiths is his absolutebelief that the human imagination can save us from anything. No human disaster or tragedyis too large for the imagination to encompass or too crushing for imagination to convertit into lifesavingness. This credo reaches its culmination, and its apotheosis, ... 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

An Overview of The Extraordinary Hoof by Thylia Moss, an American Poet (5245 words, 24 pages)

The Extraordinary Hoofby Thylias MossThere are certain marvelous coincidences, for instance, that myordinarily inconsequential toes, inconsequential not to bipedalism, but to what ismomentarily more essential to me, endeavors that take place especially and no place but inthe mindwhere I've just become aware of being an admirer of hooves, less the ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Negro’s Creative Genius the Book of African American Poetry (1318 words, 5 pages)

Countee CullenIt is now five years since James Weldon Johnson edited with abrilliant essay on "The Negro's Creative Genius" The Book of American NegroPoetry, four years since the publication of Robert T. Kerlins Negro Poets andTheir Poems, and three years since from the Trinity College Press in Durham, NorthCarolina, came ... Read More

An Overview of Poetry as Labor and Privilege, The Writings of W. S. Merwin (779 words, 3 pages)

Cary NelsonThe final poem in the book, which is also the title poem, is anirrevocable perspective on his work to that point. An empty iron furnace rusts in atrash-ridden gully by a poisonous creek, until a derelict decides to make it his "badcastle." He brings his bottle, bolts the door ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem One Art by Elizabeth Bishop, an American Poet (3798 words, 16 pages)

Brett Candlish Millier. . . There is no doubt that the crisis behind this poem was the apparent loss toBishop of Alice Methfessel, the companion, caretaker, secretary, and great love of thelast eight years of her life. Although its method is the description of the accumulationof losses in the poet's ... Read More

An Analysis of the Musial Element in J. Paul Hunter’s Poem “The Norton Introduction to Poetry” (2435 words, 10 pages)

J. Paul HunterAs the title implies, this poem is a kind of musical lament, in this case for a certainsort of businessman who took a lot of chances and saw his investments and life go down thedrain in the depression of the early thirties. Reading this poem aloud is a ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the African American Poetry by Brooks (408 words, 2 pages)

John F. CallahanCertainly,she writes many of her powerful post-1967 poems in a voice resonant with a new sense thateach member of her audience is "essentially and essential African." The word-play of Brooks's phrase directs usto ancestral presences and questions of being she is now conscious of and inspired by asshe ... 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 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 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

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

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

An Outline of the Works of Poet Marianne Moore (619 words, 4 pages)

Darlene Williams Erickson1887 Born 15 November in Kirkwood, Missouri1894 Family moves to Carlisle, Pennsylvania (age 7)1896 Begins preparatory education at Metzger Institute, Carlisle (age8)1905 Finishes high school enters Bryn Mawr College (age 17)1909 Receives A.B. enrolls at Carlisle Commercial College (age 21)1910 Completes commercial courses (age 22)1911 First visits with ... 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 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

A Literary Analysis of the Poetry by Randall Jarrell (10982 words, 39 pages)

Randall JarrellThe poem's first sentence, "He saw her from the bottom ofthe stairs Before she saw him," implies what the poem very soon states that,knowing herself seen, she would have acted differentlyshe has two sorts of behavior,behavior for him to observe and spontaneous immediate behavior "She was startingdown, Looking back ... Read More

An Introduction to the Narratives of 20th Century American Poetry in the 21st Century (1247 words, 8 pages)

Marsha Bryant, University of FloridaE-mail mbryantenglish.ufl.eduMy Homepage www.clas.ufl.eduusersmbryantMAPS site www.english.uiuc.edumapsDESCRIPTIONThis course will assess the competing narratives and cultural constructs that frame 20thcentury American poetry in the 21st century. Besides asking what makes a poem,we will also ask how poetry has been used in American culture during the last hundredyears. Our ... Read More

An Introduction to the Literary Analysis of from Modern to Contemporary: American Poetry by James E. Breslin (4922 words, 20 pages)

Reprinted from the book, FROM MODERN TO CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY 1945-1965 by James E. Breslin published by the University of Chicago Press, copyright 1983, 1994 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. This text may be used and shared in accordance with the fair use provisions of US and ... Read More

Life of Walt Whitman as One of America’s Most Influential Poet (10227 words, 39 pages)

Note This biographical essay is excerpted from a longer essay included in The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive at httpjefferson.village.virginia.eduwhitman It is copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 by Kenneth M. Price and Ed Folsom.Family OriginsWalt Whitman, arguably Americas most influential and innovativepoet, was born into a working class family in West ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Poetry by Adrienne Rich a Poet and Theorist (1382 words, 6 pages)

Deborah PopeThere is no writer of comparable influence and achievement in somany areas of the contemporary women's movement as the poet and theorist Adrienne Rich.Over the years, hers has become one of the most eloquent, provocative voices on thepolitics of sexuality, race, language, power, and women's culture. There is scarcely ... Read More

An Analysis of the Topic of the Poet Out of Pioneer (1980 words, 8 pages)

Poet Out of PioneerMy mother and father were the two most remarkable young people ina very small Western town my mother, a pioneer extravert, a hardworking, high-handed,generous, and handsome girl. She never set limits to what she could do. She believed inmiracles made by her own hands. When my father ... Read More

The Formal Qualities of Bishop’s Poetry in The Armadillo (2550 words, 11 pages)

Penelope LaurensA well-modulated lyric like "The Armadillo"demonstrates how the formal qualities of Bishop's poetry help to hold the reader'semotional response in check. "The Armadillo" meditates on the Brazilian customof floating celebratory fire balloons on saints' days and festival days. It depicts thealmost unearthly beauty of these fragile, dangerous objects which ... Read More

The Correlation of Law and Poetry (1772 words, 8 pages)

MARKANDERSON Tell me about the connections for you between the law and poetry.What's yourlegal background?You write oflegal language often being used "not to clarify but to control." That would be,from most people's perspective, the definition of all legal language. Look at PresidentClinton's recent testimony the epitome of evasion.What are theproblems ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013