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Too New to Handle?: What Is Poetry? / Closing comments
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Too New to Handle? A blog I'll be maintaining for the Goshen College Engl 210: Modern and Contemporary Poetry class, in which I tackle the complexities of works that can at times seem too new to handle. Sporadic ramblings and reflections may or may not ensue. Wednesday, April 27, 2011. This was the question asked of our English class. the following paper is both my final project and an attempt at an answer (how's that for alliteration? 8220;Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.“. This seemingly stra...
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Puzzling Over Pound: February 2011
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My attempts to make sense of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. Monday, February 28, 2011. Tennyson's Poetry is Music to My Ears! I first encountered Alfred Lord Tennyson last fall when my kind of embarrassing family band, 3 Skuzins and a Funkle, learned a rendition of his poem "Crossing the Bar.". PS I thought it would be fun to let you listen to our version of “Crossing the Bar” because I believe poetry can absolutely be enjoyed as music. Sunday, February 20, 2011. Poem for a Hurting World. Making Sense o...
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Introduction to Poetry: Another Simic Poem
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011. Memories of the Future. Also is from That Little Something. It portray images that Simic frequently uses: war and death. Charles Simic uses juxtapositions and opposites to make a contrast that burns an image into the readers mind. The feelings that Simic produces come from real experience, making his work that much more meaningful. This essay describes this poem a little deeper. Charles Simic’s “Memories of the Future”: The Inherent Destructiveness of Humanity. The title of the p...
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Introduction to Poetry: Thinking about "Cloud of Witnesses" by G.C. Waldrep
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Monday, April 4, 2011. Thinking about "Cloud of Witnesses" by G.C. Waldrep. In continuing to read Waldrep's poems in his collection titled Disclamor,. I took particular interest in the work " Cloud of Witnesses. While most of the poem responds to obscurities and symbolism, he sticks to a very modern approach to writing. There is also an interesting spacing and line-break arrangement. These examples are shown below. And I think the. Will ring. It always has. It is not ashamed of this, .". I agree with you...
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Too New to Handle?: March 2011
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Too New to Handle? A blog I'll be maintaining for the Goshen College Engl 210: Modern and Contemporary Poetry class, in which I tackle the complexities of works that can at times seem too new to handle. Sporadic ramblings and reflections may or may not ensue. Wednesday, March 30, 2011. GC Waldrep and "Battery Smith-Guthrie". Battery Smith-Guthrie" (link to Google Book; the poem can be read in its entirety in the preview). I just finished reading the better part of G.C. Waldrep's Disclamor,. Strand seemed...
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words to no wear: June 2012
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Words to no wear. Wash them, wade them, try them on. step in mud and purge the flood. stitch them finely and still you have the same words in different shades. WORDS NEVER WEAR THAT GO TO NO WHERE. Goshen College English 210] {. Sunday, June 10, 2012. What do you do. When you must protect. It it is hard. The light came into the darkness, but the darkness did not comprehend it,". Seek the good in me. You seek out the worst. Really, you just venture down paths. No one else does. Who sought to put pain.
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words to no wear: to be swatted.
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Words to no wear. Wash them, wade them, try them on. step in mud and purge the flood. stitch them finely and still you have the same words in different shades. WORDS NEVER WEAR THAT GO TO NO WHERE. Goshen College English 210] {. Tuesday, December 16, 2014. That's what I told myself. I will have you know,. I am not very good at listening to my own advice. Thinking of it now, the free-ness comes back. Oh, the ease of shoulders. That allowed me to "Ship" others people love. With a smile,. It was sweet, their.
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words to no wear: communion (the need of)
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Words to no wear. Wash them, wade them, try them on. step in mud and purge the flood. stitch them finely and still you have the same words in different shades. WORDS NEVER WEAR THAT GO TO NO WHERE. Goshen College English 210] {. Saturday, December 14, 2013. Communion (the need of). A life with you. Is a life alone. A wife with you. Is a wife alone. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Speak in freedom, do not speak freely {a reflectio. Communion (the need of). Words to no wear.
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Puzzling Over Pound: Wole Soyinka: An Author and Advocate
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My attempts to make sense of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. Tuesday, April 26, 2011. Wole Soyinka: An Author and Advocate. Here I invite you to explore with me the life of poet, playright, and novelist Wole Soyinka, and how he responded to apartheid in Nigeria with POETRY! I've done most of the work for you, and compiled it into a medium-sized paper.). Abou-bakr, Randa. "The Political Prisoner as Antihero: The Prison Poetry of Wole Soyinka and 'Ahmad Fu'ad Nigm." Comparative Literature Studies 4...Civil...
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Modern Poetry: Hotel d'Avignon - an analysis
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Monday, April 4, 2011. Hotel d'Avignon - an analysis. For our next assignment, we were told to deeply study another Waldrep poem that was not a Battery poem. I chose to look at Hotel d'Avignon because I felt a connection with the imagery and it was one of the poems in "Disclamor" that really captured my imagination. A few words I looked up or translated:. Patois - something like a regional dialect, or the jargon/slang of a particular region. And the persona's mother. 2nd line - "If I could find the porti...
