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According to Marnon, Stillinger "gave a very close reading of a long Keats poem. The Eve of St. Agnes' in which he found multiple readings, multiple readers and in fact, multiple authors...
...through The Crimson's Commencement edition, I noticed an error which I'd like to correct! In Sarah Scrogin's story on Class Day ("Class Day Speeches Remember, Look Forward," news story, June 8, 1995), she makes reference to Clark Dean's address. She writes, "Dean referred to a poem by W.H. Auden titled 'Icarus' which he learned about in Gen Ed 105: The Literature of Social Reflection...
Actually, Clark was speaking of Auden's poem, 'Musee des Beaux Arts." "Icarus" is the title of the Breughel painting, the inspiration behind Auden's words. It's a wonderful poem. Christina S. Griffith Assistant Dean of Freshman and General Education 105 Teaching Assistant
...well-established poets like Sandra McPherson, Robert Bly and Adrienne Rich to such lesser-known practitioners as Daisy Zamora, Sekou Sundiata and Coleman Barks. But by ignoring specifics--by avoiding the poet's daily business of weighing word against word--he finally divorces most of the poets from their poems. Ideally, when the poet sits down to write he or she is claiming a kinship, however collateral, with Dickinson and Donne, Chaucer and Virgil. What Moyers too often gives us is the poem as self-therapy, and the poetry reading as a blend of A.A. meeting and encounter-group session...
...need not rage, rage against the dying of the light, we may indeed go gentle into that good night," Perkins said, alluding to a Dylan Thomas Poem...