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...Epithalamion, 4 A.M.," Sandy's poem, sings softly but firmly of the love of a bride and bridegroom, of dawn, joy, time, life, and the fear of death or the end of a moment. That's a large demand to make of any poem, but Sandy succeeds. A few metaphoric rough spots briefly mar the first three stanzas, but the last four rise evenly to a climax of considerable force, thanks to careful variations of rhythm combined with a consistent metaphor...
...full title of Richard Sommer's poem is "To Speed and Greta: A Word About Your Friend, Dead in Ambush; Algeria, November 1, 1957." It is a kind and wise, but realistic "Word." Sommer talks in verse about the memory of a dead friend and troubling inadequacies of memory. The metaphor of "masks" and "manikin" creates a speculative whole that reveals with emotion the sense of emptiness a death creates. One or two lines are too harsh for the general tone of the poem, however...
Also especially worthy of mention is Thomas Whitbread's "The Noble Reader and the Sight of Words." Actually more a prose poem than anything else, it describes the distraction which the image of words on a page can offer in an attempt to find their sense. Lightly philosophic, it is easy to read, despite the myriad images...
...year of the first Yearbook. Although yearbooks have continued to be published up the present time, their form has changed considerably. The 1898 book was mainly composed of a very long poem, men tioning each girl in the class by name. It also contained a picture of the class officers...
Using the more complex machine for high-school and college level often requires a system called "vanishing." In learning a poem, for example, first certain insignificant letters are omitted, then important letters, then unimportant words, then more important words. After that a whole line is dropped out, then increasing numbers of lines, and in a surprisingly short time the student is able to repeat the whole verse without having made a wrong response...