Poetry for Students

222 Poetry for Students Santos spans the short, four-letter word “holy” across the break between lines 34 and 35. This sty- list ...

Volume 24 223 And a cognate, terra-cotta dust over everything, with the on-tiptoe atmosphere of a boule-de-neigebefore it’s shak ...

224 Poetry for Students Nor is there any in what is unquestionably San- tos’s finest poetic achievement to date, “Elegy for My S ...

any of those moments individually. This provides, I hope, the illusion both of time past and of time in the process of passing, ...

226 Poetry for Students You’re speaking of course about the last two books, and again the subject of those poems dic- tated the ...

Volume 24 227 Not only has the mainstream begun to open its doors to a widening range of marginalized poets, but the last two de ...

228 Poetry for Students writing, and a second glance at Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice,James Joyce’s Ulysses,F. Scott Fitzgerald’ ...

Volume 24 229 Now anchored to the earth, it founders in the slipstream of a mild, inverted sea, and labors toward it still, its ...

230 Poetry for Students nonlinearly elliptical, relying on image and metaphor to engage the reader. Santos’s basic tone is at on ...

Volume 24 231 Review of The City of Women: A Sequence of Prose and Poems, in Publishers Weekly, Vol. 240, No. 9, March 1, 1993, ...

The Room Conrad Aiken’s “The Room,” collected in John Deth and Other Poemsand published in 1930, sym- bolically remembers and tr ...

Volume 24 233 sent to Massachusetts to live with his father’s sis- ter’s family. When Aiken entered Harvard in 1907, he had alre ...

234 Poetry for Students having potential: order might come into existence “if chaos wished.” Lines 6–11 In this section, the spe ...

Volume 24 235 he has accomplished. “Remember,” he says to him- self, “how chaos died / To shape the shining leaf.” Repression In ...

236 Poetry for Students The poem arises in the speaker’s mind in the same way from its terrible source. The painful, destruc- ti ...

Volume 24 237 matter, briefly and sharply defined through appro- priate corresponding images and plain language. Aiken, along wi ...

238 Poetry for Students consequently, to the psyche of the writer. The lit- erature produced was less concerned with logical for ...

Volume 24 239 complete competence.” Yet Aiken is more esteemed by poets and critics than he is popular among read- ers. As Seige ...

240 Poetry for Students poem on the page) and exclude from consideration the person and the personal (the poet’s biography) or a ...

Volume 24 241 Readers, too, can be deprived of experiencing highly charged, humanly grounded emotions that elate, purge, and enl ...