The Universal Hiawatha.(Critical Essay)

The American Indian Quarterly;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......conception. Relocating Hiawatha into an originating...diffuseness removes this poem from its questionable...produced Song of Hiawatha might either interrogate the poem's Americanness...culture lies in the poem's title. Longfellow...and substituted Hiawatha, an Iroquoian...

'Hiawatha' brought back to life

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  June 3, 2007 ;     645 words ......Longfellow's epic poem, "The Song of Hiawatha," was written 152 years...eight chapters of the poem. As he recited Hiawatha's eight-syllable lines...author of "Shades of Hiawatha." Maglaras maintains that the poem is a "great national...

Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Hiawatha

Monarch Notes;      621 words ......at least fiction. Hiawatha is a prime example of this. The poem is based on a tradition...underlying theme in Hiawatha is that the people of the poem are at the point of...an act of God. The poem ends then, with Hiawatha going to the great...

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...

LONGFELLOW'S 'HIAWATHA' COMING OUT IN 6-CD SET.(Living)

The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  May 28, 2007 ;     540 words ......Longfellow's epic poem, The Song of Hiawatha, was written 152 years...eight chapters of the poem. As he recited Hiawatha's eight-syllable lines...and the beauty of the poem alive. Although The Song of Hiawatha was a commercial success...

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...

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...

Discordant Notes: Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha, Community, Race, and...

The Journal of American Culture;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......performed the Song of Hiawatha Pageant to large...the scenes of the poem, the meters of which...prologue describing the poem's contents as the...singer who ... sang of Hiawatha, Sang the Song of...lines suggest, the poem collects and narrates...chronicling the life of Hiawatha from ...

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...

A NEW SONG FOR HIAWATHA ESO CONDUCTOR'S ODE TO OJIBWA LEADER DEBUTS THIS...

Courier News (Elgin, IL);  April 27, 2007 ;     538 words ......years, Longfellow's poem The Song of Hiawatha was required reading...on Longfellow's poem. The work was dedicated...George Grove. Since Hiawatha's tribe bore much...program, caused Hiawatha to "come to town...With Longfellow's poem for inspiration...produced Elgin's first ...

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...