Modern American Poetry

(^312) Katherine Kearns treacherously, to be flown against after sundown. Ousted from their safe perches in “The Thatch,” the bi ...

Lyricism: At the Back of the North Wind 313 imperatives of fall. Loud, he predicts the inevitable, and his “language” reflects t ...

(^314) Katherine Kearns his dualism its dubious palliative of self-referential irony. The lyric birds and the weary speakers tel ...

Lyricism: At the Back of the North Wind 315 is a portent. As such, they become inviting embodiments for the Platonic soul, which ...

(^316) Katherine Kearns who might be expected to hear a wilder, more natural song, imposes upon them a sad domestic metaphor, be ...

Lyricism: At the Back of the North Wind 317 safety well out of the lyric-inducing wind. The standard romantic metaphor for inspi ...

(^318) Katherine Kearns left of the window will not suffice to keep the wind at bay. It will enter the monklike “narrow stall” a ...

Lyricism: At the Back of the North Wind 319 may even signal a kind of licentiousness, suggested even in “To the Thawing Wind” by ...

(^320) Katherine Kearns cautionary, warning, “Let them think twice before they use their powers.” Like the birds that symbolize ...

Lyricism: At the Back of the North Wind 321 in the poetic version the speaker saves the entire town;^9 in both cases the virile ...

(^322) Katherine Kearns tree becomes insubstantial as it is made an external referent for the speaker: the tree outside his bedr ...

Lyricism: At the Back of the North Wind 323 consistency to be taken analogically, as rather obvious metaphors for the poet’s com ...

(^324) Katherine Kearns himself, who sees even his apprehension of Christ as infiltrated by an inescapable eroticism: You know P ...

Lyricism: At the Back of the North Wind 325 of irony or other rhetorical strategies is a form of unmanning, a masochism that bri ...

(^326) Katherine Kearns Ironically perceived, the poem could in fact be read as a veiled insult to another, unnamed poet making ...

Lyricism: At the Back of the North Wind 327 logos,competent to command, to discuss, and to persuade.^21 He does not use the word ...

(^328) Katherine Kearns “to noise abroad,” “to rumor,” or “to din.” Singing that is “bruited down” is at once drowned out by the ...

Lyricism: At the Back of the North Wind 329 to be freed /And sing the wild flowers up from root and seed.” For Frost poetry resi ...

(^330) Katherine Kearns disciplinarian relationship to the word rather than, like Keats, seeking to find the exact, lightly wove ...

Lyricism: At the Back of the North Wind 331 energy is not to become dissolute. Spatial dissipation is a moral slippage as well, ...