Word: poem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first poem, "The Red Path", a narrative poem somewhat after the earlier manner of Mr. Masefield, does not measure up to Mr. Freeman's best work, One is discomfitted by lines such...
...Wounded Bird", however, is the very stuff and fabric of a dream. It is a lovely thing. The closing lines breathe the spirit of the whole poem...
...poem that one goes back to--a mysterious poem full of echoing cadences and subtly turning, twisting, rhythms, a poem that breathes the unquiet beauty of recollected dreams...
...Schonberg Sextette is an exceedingly interesting work although it fares better perhaps in its original form than as arranged for string orchestra. It, too, could well stand cutting in half. This music to Dehmel's erotic poem is morbid and depressing, like a sombre engraving of dark greys and blacks which has only two flashes of white to relieve the monotony. These flashes occur, one in the middle in F sharp major and at the end in D major, when a sound like the rustling of wings comes from the violins. We cannot overlook the finished playing of the orchestra...
...view, as it were. No interpretation can ever rob the legend of its unfairness and its pettiness, and those who accept it must do so with blinded or winking eyes. Mr. McLane is the first to reject it openly and convincingly, but of course the logical answer to his poem is that the legend from its very incompatibility is patently a lie, and reproach should be directed not against the victim but against the fabricators of it. As a piece of art, however, the poem is smoothy done, and, like the "Cassandra", remarkably well contained. The verse-form-irregularly rhymed...