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...called Street of the Cross. Today a garden city with many parks and chestnut trees, Kiev draws tourists to the gold-domed St. Sophia Cathedral, one of the great masterpieces of Russian architecture, and to the nearby ravine of Babi Yar, the infamous spot commemorated in Evtushenko's poem, where some 200,000 Jews and Soviet prisoners were exterminated during the German occupation...
This theme runs through all his work but achieves its greatest expression in Pale Fire. The novel has two parts: a morbid autobiographical poem written by John Shade, and a dotty commentary by an admirer, Charles Kinbote. But is that really all there is to it? No, argues Field, who suggests that not only the poem but the commentary are Shade's work: he has absorbed Kinbote's theories and has fashioned the commentary as an extravagant coda to his own poem. This kind of argument about a possible fiction within a fiction -essentially, the was-Hamlet-reallymad...
...easily re-elected the following year. A moderate Republican, he often joined Massachusetts' Joe Martin and New York's Hamilton Fish in heckling Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. Roosevelt retaliated massively during his 1940 bid for a third term. Borrowing the rhythm of the nursery-book poem, Wynken, Blynken and Nod, F.D.R. delighted audiences with his jocular condemnation of "Martin, Barton and Fish...
...Deum for J. Alfred Prufrock is British Poet Paul Roche's cheerful reply to T. S. Eliot's despair over the barrenness of modern life in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. British Actress Pat Gilbert-Read and the author read the poem...
...duty to country and universal conscription were far from "gentlemen scholars." William H. Meeker, who had been the President of the CRIMSON during that year, died the following September, 1917, at Pau, France. Like many who were absent at graduation, the Class Poet William Wilcox '17, mailed in his poem from the Newport News aviation camp. There was no Ivy Oration; the Orator, Henry Wentworth, was away in training camp...