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...such spooky things as a postcard from him with Oscar Wilde's famous line "For each man kills the thing he loves," the girl sensibly fled to England and finally emigrated to California. Apollinaire in turn sat down to write La Chanson du Mal-Aimé, a long poem that swings between lyrical passion and harsh, direct descriptive talk in a way which was to put a lasting mark on modern French poetry. The nights in Paris all drink gin And fall asleep with their streetlights on. Trolley cars are mad machines To make green sparks and scream like...
...Poem or Muck? Swedish newspapers, in recent weeks, have printed more than 200 articles debating whether Bergman's film is art or pornography, whether it is "his strongest poem" or simply "muck." Letter-writing men are more shocked than women. Swedish teenagers, usually celebrated for their easygoing physical outlook, are offended. "Right now I don't want to see any more Bergman films," said one girl last week. "The sex scenes were almost animalistic, and I was shocked...
...poem "Don Quixote," which separates the two parts of the journal, best reveals the author's descriptive ability. Combining simple statements and rolling Biblical tones, he paints that "great and gaunt ascetic" as a symbol of his country...
Although a sanchoesque realism dominates some of his descriptions, Kazantzakis himself seems to share the goal his poem attributes to Don Quixote...
...bittersweet reminiscence that prefaces his autobiographical novel, Agee wrote: "We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child." Thus the tone is set for a love poem embracing five generations of Follets, seen circa 1915 through the lens-sharp perceptions of Jay's son Rufus. There are moments when the film seems about to capture this elusive poetic mood: Jay and Rufus at the picture show laughing at Charlie Chaplin, then moseying home after dark; a visit to Rufus' great-great-grandmother...