Poetry for Students, Volume 35

grown tall and a traveler like his father, speaks another language and views his father with dis- dain. The Oedipal worry of the ...

imagery of the sea only intensifies Aeneas’ tempo- rary immobility: his tunic is like a sea that has stopped its continuous moti ...

sacrifice. Such sacrifice also entails the idea that the hero (or the poet) acts alone. The rewards for what the Russians callpo ...

because of your forgetful mind, the same sorrow he himself received. The situation presented is proleptic. The sor- row of the s ...

of these lines deserves explication. Initially, the word ‘‘monster’’ appears in Russian as ‘‘chudo- vishe,’’ which is a neutral ...

mask that initially seemed innocuous to Soviet censorship concerned mainly with more aggres- sive, explicit outbursts of disside ...

brown clay has been crammed down my larynx,/ only gratitude will be gushing from it.’’ When my own gratitude gushes daily, it is ...

Of Modern Poetry Wallace Stevens often created dialogues between the figures in his poems as they wrestled with intri- cate phil ...

result in understanding and a sense of contentment, which, he insists, must become the ultimate goals of modern poetry. Author B ...

act of finding something significant is never completed or the significance found is never per- manent. Since the first line doe ...

plays in this process. Stevens focuses on the act of the mind as it creates a poem that will suffice. The focus on the creation ...

becomes an active part in this process as it listens to or reads the whispered words, bringing its own imaginative response into ...

that ‘‘Stevens’s poetry, both in theory and in actual practice, is a poetry of evanescence—brief glimpses of something that vani ...

Christian Wiman, in his comments of Stevens for theAtlantic Monthly, claimed that scholars have appreciated Stevens’s poetry mor ...

relationship between thepoem and its reader. Clip- pinger, for example, finds the poem to be ‘‘the poeticpinnacleofParts of a Wo ...

The poetry of the past fails to be relevant to the modern reader, the speaker insists, because it has become like a script or a ...

simultaneously unites poet and world and audi- ence in a moment of shared being. Modernism in the first half of the twentieth ce ...

Using theater as a metaphor for poetry has several advantages. Theater implies a perform- ance, a live action, rather than an in ...

and miraculously, the listeners will find what they need; they will find themselves in the words as they are spoken out, as thou ...

Siobhan Phillips In the following essay, Phillips asserts that daily routine and ordinary patterns were important to Wallace Ste ...