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...Poetry is the bride of science" was the expression used by Edwin Markham, famous American poet and lecturer, in a recent interview for the CRIMSON. Mr. Markham is one of our leading poets today. His well-known poem, "The Man With the Hoe", has been hailed by many as the "battlecry of the next thousand years...
...first question asked Mr. Markham was what qualities he thought constituted a real poet. "A real poet must first of all be a real man, he must be a man with ideals, noble emotions, and sensitive organisms which respond quickly to the beauties and wonders of the world. He must have a profound mind, so that he has a big philosophy of life; for every great poet is also a great philosopher, and yet he does not put his philosophy before us in the form of a Kant, a William James, or a Josiah Royce. For these men deal largely...
...analyzing the relation of poetry to science. Mr. Markham said. "There are two halves to the human personality; one is the intellect and the other the emotions. The intellect finds its chief expression in what is known as science and philosophy, and the emotions find a large expression through various arts with poetry standing at the head. But after man has explored the world in terms of the intellect, after he has mapped out life on the great pages of science and philosophy, still the heart of man remains unsatisfied. So man cries out, what does all this revelation...
Concerning the tendencies of modern poetry. Mr. Markham was optimistic. "The tendencies are all away form the pure fantastic and unreal in romanticism to what is vivid and vital in the common human life around us. The poets are taking deeper hold upon reality. Old romantic poets went to the distant and dead to find their strange beauty, but the new find a strange beauty and a tragic terror in the familiar lives of men and women in our workaday world. This might be called strong tendencies towards the democratic in literature. So strong is this tendency that I doubt...
...next question was what Mr. Markham's opinion of new verse was. "I welcome new verse," he replied emphatically, "because I always try to keep an open mind and to stand with hands open and receptive to the gifts of the future; and I welcome the new verse because it offers a new form to help us to a broader and freer expression. This new verse will never supplant the old forms, however, for those old forms contain many musical and rhetorical possibilities necessary for the expression of the deeper melodies of the spirit. But I have a grievance against...