Modern American Poetry

(^152) Robert Langbaum the Quester inasmuch as he moves through the episodes of the poem to arrive at the Perilous Chapel. But i ...

New Modes of Characterization in The Waste Land 153 But the poet’s consciousness is itself an aspect of the age’s. We get the ov ...

(^154) Robert Langbaum And when we were children, staying at the arch-duke’s, My cousin’s, he took me out on a sled, And I was f ...

New Modes of Characterization in The Waste Land 155 Nothing?’”—the protagonist answers: “I remember/ [The hyacinth garden.] Thos ...

(^156) Robert Langbaum Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell And the profit and loss, we are justified in connecting c ...

New Modes of Characterization in The Waste Land 157 Ariel’s. Thus Eliot does in The Waste Landwhat he has not done in “Dans le R ...

(^158) Robert Langbaum It is in Part Vthat the Grail legend becomes most explicit, and explicit in its Christian interpretation. ...

New Modes of Characterization in The Waste Land 159 Once we see that The Waste Landdramatizes the making of an identity, that th ...

(^160) Robert Langbaum In all these instances from “Preludes,” there is a minimum of that distinction between perceiver and perc ...

New Modes of Characterization in The Waste Land 161 That are raising dingy shades In a thousand furnished rooms. In “Preludes” I ...

(^162) Robert Langbaum way,” says Eliot in explaining Bradley, “to speak of myexperience, since the I is a construction out of e ...

New Modes of Characterization in The Waste Land 163 Having dissolved the distinction between subject and object, Bradley himself ...

(^164) Robert Langbaum But this isolation is counteracted by the ability of the speaker in “Preludes” and the protagonist in The ...

New Modes of Characterization in The Waste Land 165 of feeling. The vision encountered and lost of the hyacinth girl leads to a ...

(^166) Robert Langbaum apparition of Jesus born of the disciples’ grief over the Crucifixion. In both cases the apparition was d ...

167 Frost’s poetry of “home” is a dramatization of the human costs and human benefits of decorum. As a reader becomes more intim ...

(^168) Richard Poirier for the later ones, the Taconic Mountains around Shaftesbury and the Green Mountains around Ripton in cen ...

Soundings for Home 169 (without all kinds of subtle vernacular modulations and deflations) the sustained rhetorical eloquence he ...

(^170) Richard Poirier each of the poems. Thus, despite the absence of characterizing detail, the speaker in “The Wood-Pile” sha ...

Soundings for Home 171 chancing by, becomes the motive for metaphor: the bird is endowed with the characteristics being displaye ...