Poetry for Students, Volume 31

experiences or on a variety of philosophical questions. Trends in Translation Since the end of Soviet Communist rule in Poland, ...

presenting ‘‘the greatest challenge to a critic’’ and contends that this might explain ‘‘a relative dearth of studies about her ...

in her poem ‘‘Some People Like Poetry’’ with the poet’s more explicitly stated views as revealed in her 1996 Nobel Prize accepta ...

appreciated, or found to be valuable in some manner. The first stanza leads the reader to refine his or her ideas about how many ...

Szymborska in ‘‘Some People Like Poetry’’ is praising the value of questioning over answer- ing. As readers of the poem, we are ...

profession—poets prefer to use the general term ‘‘writer,’’ or to replace ‘‘poet’’ with the name of whatever job they do in addi ...

There aren’t many such people. Most of the earth’s inhabitants work to get by. They work because they have to. They didn’t pick ...

is, there is no such obvious world. Our astonish- ment exists per se, and it isn’t based on a compar- ison with something else. ...

to the more extensiveView with a Grain of Sand (Harcourt Brace, 1995), translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Claire Cavanagh, a ...

Yet her depictions of events such as war and other atrocities, often include an element of the absurd and the comic. ‘‘In every ...

while still a student. In her first two collections of poetry, published in the early 1950s, she suc- cumbed to the officially p ...

Source:Ewa Gajer, ‘‘Polish Poet Wislawa Szymborska,’’ inHecate, Vol. 23, No. 1, May 1997, pp. 140–42. SOURCES Brent, Frances Pad ...

Storm Ending ‘‘Storm Ending’’ is a short poem by Jean Toomer that first appeared in the literary magazineDouble Dealerin Septemb ...

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Jean Toomer was born Nathan Pinchback Toomer on December 26, 1894, in Washington, D.C. He was the grandson of P ...

of Gurdjieffian philosophical concepts, and he found publishers for very few of them. In 1931, Toomer married the writer Margery ...

role in ending the storm and not just appearing after it is over. The next line refers to rain for the first time, making one wo ...

beauty instead of warning the reader against it in the manner of Alfred Tennyson. Rather than paint a pleasing still life, Toome ...

comes a time to stop fleeing from what might actually be something positive. Or the message may be less judgmental and more an o ...

HISTORICAL CONTEXT The Harlem Renaissance Toomer is often described as an important figure in the movement known as the Harlem R ...

such as T. S. Eliot and James Joyce and with experiments in literary form, with breaking away from traditions and conventions, a ...