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An Introduction to the History of American Poetry (420 words, 2 pages)

William Rose Bent"Lola Ridge 1883-1941"Americanpoetry has had of late years among its major figures a number of greatly gifted women--thelate Elinor Wylie, Amy Lowell, and Anna Hempstead Branch, the living Edna St. VincentMillay, Lonie Adams, and others. LolaRidge stood a little apart from the rest, with what it is not ... Read More

An Introduction to the Poetry of Kazuko Shiraishi (344 words, 2 pages)

Eliot WeinbergerHe translated two anthologies of Chinese and Japanese womenpoets edited and translated the contemporary Japanese woman poet Kazuko Shiraishiandhis finest translationthe Sung Dynasty poet Li Ch'ing-chao and he inventeda young Japanese poet named Marichiko, a woman in Kyoto, and wrote her poems in Japaneseand English. The Marichiko poems are ... Read More

A Discussion on the Effects of Poetry (7204 words, 28 pages)

ExcerptsOn What Poetry DoesA poem does invite, it does require. What does it invite? A poem invites you to feel.More than that it invites you to respond. And better than that a poem invites a totalresponse.This response is total, but it is reached through the emotions. A fine poem will ... Read More

An Analysis of the Topic of the Asian American Poets and the Role of Inada’s Poetry (2043 words, 9 pages)

Juliana ChangWhile jazz and blues rhythms and aesthetics have beenused by a number of Asian American poets, Inada's poetry stands out in its consistency anddepth of engagement with jazz. Inada himself cites jazz as the strongest influence on hiswriting. His collection Before the War Poems as They Happened (1971) begins ... Read More

An Interview with Jimmy Santiago Baca on Poetry (11330 words, 40 pages)

Originally published in Callaloo--A Journal ofAfrican-American and African Arts and Letters, Winter 1994, Volume 17, Number 1"POETRY IS WHAT WE SPEAK TO EACH OTHER"An Interview With Jimmy Santiago BacaBy John KeeneThis interview was conducted by telephone from Charlottesville, Virginia, on August2, 2993.KEENE Mr. Baca, in your book of essays, Working ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poetry of Martin Espada (2473 words, 10 pages)

Steven RatinerHunched over the podium, Martin Espada is an imposing presence, a grizzly bear of a manwith dark eyes that devour the page. His poems are, by turns, ferocious, tender, ardentlypolitical, or touchingly biographical. But in between the poems, when he tells storiesabout his writing and his life, the audience ... Read More

An Essay on Contemporary Native American Poetry (3214 words, 13 pages)

from Tamaqua A resident of the Mesquakie (Red Earth) Tribal Settlement near Tama, Iowa, Ray A. Young Bear has been a frequent contributor to the field and study of contemporary Native American poetry since the early seventies. His poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, and in his two ... Read More

A Discussion of the Journal of Black Poetry (1739 words, 7 pages)

from Journal of Black Poetry (1972)JBP Last night, when we were talking, you said you were hunting for averb. What kind of verb are you looking for?WS Hunting for a verb -- I was actually talking about a predicate asit functions in a sentence. You know, one of our problems. ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poetry and Work by Susan Howe, an American Scholar and a Poet (1427 words, 5 pages)

Bruce CampbellSusan Howe is a kind of post-structuralist visionary. This means that, while attuned toa transcendental possibility, she is fully aware of how mediated both language andconsciousness are. This awareness leads her to acknowledge and investigate history, but,recognizing, as she does, the "infinite miscalculation of history," she can notaccept history ... Read More

An Introduction to the History of African American Poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks (7150 words, 29 pages)

The time cracks into furious flower. Lifts its face all unashamed. And sways in wicked grace. -Gwendolyn Brooks African American poetry is the aesthetic chronicle of a race, as Gwendolyn Brooksexpresses it, struggling to lift "its face all unashamed" in an alien land. Fromthe earliest attempts of African American poets ... Read More

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

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

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 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 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

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

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