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Koch found an interesting approach to the metaphor poems. He taught several different grades ranging from first through sixth. At first he inspired the kids by reading an adult poem--including D.H. Lawrence, Theodore Roethke, John Ashberry, and Dyland Thomas--but as his collection of kids' poems increased he would read in one class poems written in another. He noticed that P.S.61 was establishing its own literary tradition--an institutional salon of sorts. Thus a misspelled word triggered Koch's introduction to a metaphor. A child wrote "A swam of bees," instead of a "swarm." A first grader's poem...
...miserable, sloppy, hastily done record; and listening to it, I felt as if Dyland had gone out of his way to thumb his nose at everyone who bought his records on faith. He had put his name on a record and asked us to plunk down six dollars expecting maybe "Desolation Row" or "All Along the Watchtower" or at minimum, "Country Pie." But all we got was: "Ba-loo a-moon, you saw me standing a-lone...
...smooth rock and roll. In turn this configuration of words and music, I thing, determined Dylan's use of his voice on the album (which as everyone knows by now, is radically different from the grating, flaring voice we used to recognize as Dylan's.) I cannot imagine how Dyland could have conceivably sung this album's songs differently...
...Dyland Thomas...
David G. Aivaz '47 captured third prize, worth $100, for an essay on "Image and Theme in the Poetry of Dyland Thomas...
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