Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This ghostliness is what, if anything, marks Poet Robinson's limitation. He has written exquisitely of high romance. His lines, flexibly austere, trace out the action sharply and whip passion to its perfect pitch. But then, often, the simple words are tortured and strained deviously to sustain ecstasy, in bodiless comparative discussions of ecstasy itself. Then the lines ache like tendons not strong enough to keep a soaring hawk aloft, needing a gust of action, a wingbeat of refreshed emotion to lift the poem again...
...very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. . . ." This line of Hamlet--or rather its general content, for an exact quotation would be a bit much to ask from one who has never taken English 2--occurred to the Vagabond yesterday as he looked at some drawings, illustrations for the Book of Job, Dante's "Divine Comedy" and others, by William Blake...
...Germany, not the Emperor, desired or brought about the War, but Frenchmen's desire for revenge, Russia's passion for power and England's mercantile selfishness. I recommend to you the books of Professor Barnes of Northampton, Mass., the speeches of La-Follette, of Senator Owen and many others...
Throughout his speech, Mr. Darrow showed that he was not dealing with crimes of passion and in closing, be stated that no machinery of law would ever be able to stop them. The natural conclusion as to whether capital punishment should be enforced or not was left to the listener
...uses a large number of feminine endings with a very special effect, his verse is never monotonous, and its melody with a peculiar, slightly remote, cadence of its own, is nearly always delightful. "Tristram" possesses these qualities and many others. And, if the characters are not individuals, this passion that transforms them is cunningly and movingly described; the poem is admirable in construction and expression. No one but Mr. Robertson could have written it. And that is high praise