Word: meters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After trading first place finishes, the Crimson picked up some hetty points when its divers led by sophomore. All American Dan Watson, swept both the one and three-meter events...
While making his move from fourth to third place in the 1000-meter race, sophomore John Perkins threw his shoe. Despite the setback, Perkins finished the race and even managed to finish third...
...meet was still within reach with just the 3000-meter race and two relays left to run. Harvard had to prevent Army from taking anything but third in the 3000 and winning both relays, but unfortunately Peter Inshofedged out freshman Paul Compares to take second behind Paul McNulty in the 3000. Army iced its victory by taking both relays...
...easier to understand Lowell's break with strict meter when Hamilton includes an excerpt from his Life Studies and describes the conflict many mid-20th century poets faced. The dissolution of conventional poetic form and style following World War I was perhaps the single greatest phenomenon in modern literature. It posed a critical problem for poets like Lowell: whether to jump into the newly opened vista by discarding form, carrying T.S. Eliot's innovations one more step, or to make poetry more powerful by struggling with a fixed meter. Lowell, who had trained himself to write in regular meter, finally...
rhyme and meter were for him very close to being the "natural speech" that William Carlos Williams and his followers were always calling for. The iambic pentameter was not an external, imposed literary method; after three books, it had become compulsive utterance. And it was probably harder for Lowell to discard rhymes than to invent them. Williams, he felt, was unique, but "dangerous and difficult to imitate...