Word: poem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edsall's Poem Notable...
Sometimes the poem, submitting too much to manner, misses the rhythm which its theme imposes; equally often it rises, with an orchestration of dark vowel music, thrusting cadences, rich rhymes dexterously jarring, to utterance that will stamp Mr. MacLeish, young Boston Irishman, as an important poet to all those who attach importance to perfection of expression...
...oppressive. "Knowledge is the basis of education" he explained. "Memory is the key to knowledge. My course on the poet Omar is the sine quo non of an education because it develops brain capacity. It is my practice to confront the Satellites with a brief quotation from some obscure poem. I then require them to cite chapter, verse, page and line, and to quote what precedes and follows, omitting every other word. None but the finest memory can do that." It was pitiful to see the four...
...astonishing doggerel. He writes that "A fragile boy as thickhipped Distaffina sung and skipped" and chronicled the actions of the other members of the cast in a similar manager. He spends more time, however, in a description of one of the club's annual celebrations and ends his poem as follows...
...country where the undergraduate was given into the improving hands of a minister for a few months. Lowell himself, in 1838, was rusticated, though many of his biographers neglect to mention it. His stay in the country coincided with Class Day and he was forced to allow his class poem to be read by a friend...