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Poet Frost himself read this poem to a Russian audience in Moscow last week, was greeted with uncomprehending silence...
...Sarton, a well-known American poet and novelist, read selections from her latest volume of poetry, Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine, to a large audience in Allston Burr B last Wednesday afternoon. It was last session of the Wednesday soon Poetry Reading Series. Miss Sarton opened her program with "a poem about coming home" called "Aux Saisons aux Chateaux." She explained that she had just returned from a five-month journey to Japan, India, and Greece. Cambridge, where she spent much of her youth, is one of several places which she considers home...
...weather, one page to sports, another page to culture. Nikkei's art criticism is rated as the best of any newspaper in Japan. And it even finds room for those familiar staples of all Japanese newspapers : a serialized novel and an assortment of haiku, the classic three-line poem whose origins go back centuries...
...which claimed that a work of literature could best be understood by a detailed analysis of its language. Other critics have had profounder things to say about literature than Empson, but in line-by-line analysis no one can match him. One of the most labyrinthian explications of a poem on record is his 26-page analysis of Andrew Marvell's 72-line Thoughts in a Garden, in which, among other things, he lists every time the word green is used in Marvell's poetry. Green, he argued, meant hope and virginity to Marvell and "the humble, permanent...
...good place to scratch." By close analysis, Empson has washed away many misreadings of poetry; by showing how varied and inventive poets are, he has often made them more exciting. But he may also frighten off readers who translate his lesson as: if you think you understand a poem, there is something wrong with you−or the poem. As a result, many a reader has felt that poetry was less a pleasure than a test, and decided not to bother with...