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...golden curls to satisfy his mother, still mourning the death in infancy of her first child. Impersonating his dead sister was the last role anybody ever imposed upon Rilke. At the age of ten he entered a military academy near Vienna. "Seize your sword," he wrote in a schoolboy poem. "Perish for your fatherland...
...court controversy is adding to what many see as a morbid carnival surrounding the death. The New York Post recounted Kennedy's recent dates and romantic interests and printed a poem reportedly written by him while in a drug-rehabilitation facility. In the Los Angeles Times last week, Diane Broughton, a writer and cable television talk-show host, felt compelled to correct the story that David Kennedy was alone in a hotel room 16 years ago when he saw his father's assassination on television. Broughton, then a campaign worker for Senator Kennedy, says that she was babysitting...
...proceeds with a chronological collection of anecdotes, poems and prose excerpts, lacing them with intermittent comments of historical or thematic relevance. There are many gems, such s the powerful, gruesome early Gaelic poem called "The Old Woman of Beare...
...apologize for regarding the self as one of the great human and poetic subjects," is a correct one. As Williamson points out, such poetry is less susceptible to vague abstraction since it less often presumes to make universal generalizations. He does not need to add that critiques of a poem's subject matter are often a substitute for proper scrutiny...
...told TIME Reporter Elaine Dutka, he had seen the play as two seemingly different entities. One was "a veritable encyclopedia of information about the man," which would permit actors and audiences alike to find their own sense of what moved him. The other was a kind of free-form poem, highly condensed emotionally and verbally, "a concentration through some kind of lens of my whole awareness of life up to that point." But here again, the problem of precise clarification was left up to performers and auditors. "What it 'means,' " said Miller, "depends on where on the face...