A History of American Literature

Making It New: 1900–1945 387 in black and white: and one in red and white says Danger. The steeple-jack may be dressed in a flam ...

388 Making It New: 1900–1945 example, Moore first insists on the bird’s remoteness from man, “a less / limber animal.” It has be ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 389 iconoclasm, a positive desire to offend bourgeois sensibilities and mock bourgeois morality, with a ...

390 Making It New: 1900–1945 “ terrible horse” is used to dramatize and objectify the attraction, and the fear, of desire. In “S ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 391 actually alive,” experiencing everything with a “unique dimension of intensity”; and you could begi ...

392 Making It New: 1900–1945 people who prefer to lose their identity in some anonymous nationalistic mass rather than discover ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 393 is determinedly modernist, using a free verse line, allusive imagery, disruptive syntax and grammar ...

394 Making It New: 1900–1945 lamenting this unreal world we now inhabit, “World, not yet one ... / ... / A world of the shadow a ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 395 articulation,” as he put it, “of contemporary human consciousness sub specie aeternitas.” Poems cou ...

396 Making It New: 1900–1945 As Crane indicates here, his long poem “For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen” grew directly out of ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 397 poem in the sequence, the poet beseeches Brooklyn Bridge to act as a mediator between the actual an ...

398 Making It New: 1900–1945 committed to experiment and inquiry, and in particular to asking fundamental questions about the re ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 399 recourse to “remembering.” “By a continuously moving picture of any one there is no memory of any o ...

400 Making It New: 1900–1945 completely caressed and addressed the noun” here, she later explained, so as to take the reader awa ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 401 “The Old Order” in Collected Stories (1965). Miranda Rhea, the central character in “The Old Order” ...

402 Making It New: 1900–1945 report, but the book is much more than a tough account of life among the rural poor. “I began to th ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 403 of night, war, and contemporary culture whose alcoholic, melancholic, and apocalyptic meditations h ...

404 Making It New: 1900–1945 the Jazz Age; his Tales of the Jazz Age was published in 1922. “I wanted to be the historian of tha ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 405 the first time in his career between the two sides of his character. The idealist, the romantic who ...

406 Making It New: 1900–1945 sequence is the Valley of Ashes, a waste land that embodies “the foul dust floating in the wake of ...