Poetry for Students, Volume 31

and its appearance as a storm ends should be a sign of hope. In the operettaThe Mikado,by Gilbert and Sullivan, the happy ending ...

closing line of the poem as revealing that, as Ford puts it, there is a hierarchy of violence, with the sun victimizing the thun ...

Perhaps Bush and Mitchell are closest to the mark in their talk of slave heritage. Not that Toomer is celebrating slavery, but h ...

any comprehensive study of his poems. Yet it is, perhaps, through the lens of his poetry that we are provided the most revealing ...

Toomer’s ‘‘Five Vignettes’’ is a series of imagistic sketches modeled after Japanese haiku poetry. The first is a seascape portr ...

Here Toomer uses sounds and words from several languages, such as French (‘‘mon sa me’’ [‘‘mon sommeil’’], ‘‘vite,’’ ‘‘tas,’’ ‘‘ ...

smoke and music. Once stately Georgia pines have been reduced to smouldering sawdust piles; smoke spiraling toward heaven is the ...

intervention. The ‘‘knowledge of hunger’’ he fears is the failure of consciousness and of the creative impulse. Thus, he is relu ...

All at once within our imaginations we fin- ger the sharpness of a smooth pine needle, the hardness of a caked hoof-print in the ...

conceive the importance of both the sun and the clouds in the rich fertilization of the earth, and Toomer generates sensual imag ...

stories of ‘‘Fern,’’ ‘‘Carma,’’ and ‘‘Becky’’ and the poetic prose pieces ‘‘Nora’’ and ‘‘Seventh Street.’’ With the publication ...

imagination. Like the mystical South of ‘‘High- Priests... and a jujuman’’ the book transcends temporal dimensions. Source:Micha ...

A Tree Telling of Orpheus (by Denise Levertov)......... A TREE TELLING OF ORPHEUS was first published independently in 1968. It ...

Zalman, the founder of the mystical Chabad sect of Hasidic Judaism, and on her mother’s from Angell Jones, a leading figure in t ...

Greek mythology, his ability to cause trees to walk by the power of his song. Section 1 The poem begins with a brief introductor ...

Section 5 The brief fifth section (lines 63–71), concerns the transformation of the tree by Orpheus’s song. The subject of Orphe ...

then reports news of Orpheus that he has some- how learned (at a minimum this suggests that the transformation Orpheus effected ...

Orpheus’s four mythic themes, first, he is some- times accounted as the (human) inventor of song and is said to have been able t ...

empowered. The prototype occurs in Homer’s Odysseywhen Odysseus journeys to the world of the dead to ask the ghost of the prophe ...

Mountain Review, a journal to which Levertov occasionally contributed. The major influence of this school was to redefine poetic ...