Word: poem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Regarding the verse Sam Ervin quoted before the news conference: God, give us Men! [July 22]. The poem might have had more significance if it had been paraphrased to include the female half of the population. As it is, if the call for people of strong minds and great hearts is limited to men alone, the pickings will be slim indeed...
...included the four final lines of Josiah Gilbert Holland's poem, you might have affronted a quibbling press and that faultfinding, do-nothing Congress whose principal aim is to get reelected. I dare you to quote these lines, which apply to Democrats as well as to Republicans...
...large batch of welcome photographs, many of them done by LIFE'S Howard Sochurek during Frost's 1957 visit to England. The poet is elsewhere, though never so remote that he cannot inform anything that has been written about him. For example, these lines from his long poem on New Hampshire...
Most notable among those sentenced to death is Kim Chi Ha, 33, South Korea's best-known poet. Since the 1970 publication of his poem Five Bandits, a satirical portrait of official corruption, Kim has been one of Park's prime targets. He was arrested and brought to trial last April on charges that he had provided $5,400 to student antigovernment agitators. Actually, his prosecution probably stemmed as much from his barbed poetry as from his relatively innocuous actions against Park. A typical portion of his Five Bandits describes ministers and vice ministers: "They waddle from obesity...
Jaromil indeed becomes a poet. He tries to spy on the maid as she takes her bath, and fails, but produces a vivid poem about his "aquatic love." The genius of lyric poetry, Kundera observes, "is the genius of inexperience ... We can scoff at the poet's lack of maturity, but there is something amazing about him too. His words sparkle with droplets that come from the heart, and that gives his verse the luster of beauty. These magic dewdrops need not be stimulated by real life events. On the contrary, we suspect that the poet sometimes squeezes...