What is a Poem? Closing out National Poetry Month with a poetic...

Coast Weekly;  May 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......written and published today by America's poets is written in free (non-rhyming) verse. If a poem doesn't rhyme, you may ask, what makes it a poem? A poem is concentrated language that adds up to more than the sum of its parts. It's writing that...

Poem's curse takes hold as rival author says he's owning up

The Scotsman;  April 8, 1998 ;     429 words ......mystery surrounding a controversial wartime poem which described the island of Orkney as...stationed on the island in 1942. From the poem's opening line, This bloody town's a bloody...decided recently to own up to writing the poem. He said: "After all the awful things I...

Britain Buzzing Over Poem

AP Online;  April 12, 2002 ;     480 words ......orchestrated affair. But a simple anonymous poem that has been bouncing around the world...smile because she has lived, opens the poem, which was included in the program distributed...II chose the verse herself. He said the poem's theme _ giving thanks for a life rather...

The Constant Rediscovery of a Poem

Generations;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Crabbit Old Woman." "Open Your Eyes." This poem, which has several different titles, has...poems (Guardian, 1998). On its own, the poem might be considered remarkable enough to...is accompanied by the same account: The poem was found in the locker of a frail old...

Understanding "The Waste Land"; Why Eliot's famous poem resists easy...

The Washington Times;  April 17, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Eliot's The Waste Land, the mostfamous poem of the last century and only 17 years short...readers will have been first exposed to the poem in a classroom setting that sometimes encourages...really means. But it is inimical to the poem's ferocity, a word that Eliot used more...

A Poem of Pure Enjoyment

The Hudson Review;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...A Poem of Pure Enjoyment Two MAJOR AMERICAN POEMS...parody of it was born almost as soon as the poem. So is the other, and in its day, it was the...everyone thinks are the opening lines of the poem: By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining...

The Title to the Poem

Comparative Literature;  July 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...THE TITLE TO THE POEM. By Anne Ferry. Stanford. Stanford: Stanford...1996. 312 p. The title of The Title to the Poem might seem to suggest a topic of narrow...the few words that customarily precede a poem and signal the reader that he is about...

Coming the Jakarta: poetry, information, and disaster.(Peter Dale Scott's...

Chicago Review;  June 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ......essay on Bali cited so frequently in this poem. In order then to make time for things...three writer-academics who wrote on the poem for the 1990 issue of Agni Review (31/32...in Indonesian affairs as they read the poem. Robert Hass's review ends in fact with...

On Remembering Poetry.(poetry)(Poem)

World Literature Today;  January 1, 2008 ;     403 words ......matter what I do you won't remember this poem. No matter how witty or well crafted it is, no matter how sublime the poem may rhyme, the lines will inevitably go...matter what I do, you won't remember this poem, It'll just slip right by your long-term...

Plath's 'Daddy.' (interpretation of Sylvia Plath's poem)

The Explicator;  January 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Images of victimization in Sylvia Plath's poem Daddy - of Nazis, swastikas, barbed wire...frantic, imposing, and vituperative that the poem seems more out of control than it actually...to its many unexpected pauses, Plath's poem, indeed, seems like a runaway train barreling...

A FROST POEM FOR TODAY

The Boston Globe;  October 16, 2006 ;     417 words ...A NEW poem by Robert Frost has been found, a sign that sometimes a poem finds its readers at just the right moment. The discovery...Stilling found a letter referring to an unpublished poem that was handwritten inside a copy of the book "North...

Lennon poem peppered with f-word fetches 3,000 pounds

The Scotsman;  October 12, 1998 ;     317 words ...A PROFANE poem by John Lennon which mentions the f-word...Baker, when she asked him to send her a poem at the height of his fame in 1969. It contains...in the middle of the centre block. The poem and a letter were bought by an anonymous...

Laureate's poem

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  January 12, 2003 ;     574 words ...SHOWDOWN ON IRAQ Laureate's poem, questioning motives on Iraq, hits front...in the United Kingdom with a 30-word poem that calls into question the motives...causes, motives or pretexts of war," the poem appeared exclusively on the front page...

Muldoon, Paul. 2006. The End of the Poem. New York: Farrar, Straus and...

College Literature;  June 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ...At about the midpoint of The End of the Poem. Paul Muldoon cites the opinion of Octavio...They almost invariably use the foreign poem as a point of departure for their own...methodology of Paul Muldoon in The End of the Poem, a collection of fifteen lectures delivered...

Is Newly Discovered Poem Shakespeare's?

The Washington Post;  April 22, 1988 ;     700+ words ......Levi is ascribing to William Shakespeare a poem he located in a California library. The...Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif. The poem is cast as a celebration of an aristocratic...same seems certain to happen with Levi's poem, which begins, "As this is endless, endless...