Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course the students didn't start out writing poems as evocative as this right away. Koch began with collaborative poems, all beginning with the idea, "I wish..." He de-emphasized spelling, grammar and punctuation because he saw them as barriers. He emphasized poem-ideas that were easy and natural for children to use, and that encouraged immediate responses. Often the children would make rules for the poem (i.e. it must include a color and a comic-strip character, or a city and a country, with "I wish" at the beginning). After the group poems his students went on to describing...
...Ideology." On the other hand, Auden's development can be neatly split into only two periods. At first he felt uncomfortable in his world, and rejected its economic organization, social structure, and sexual practices; even nature, things like landscape and weather, seemed sick and threatening. Auden himself, in a poem in this book called "Thanksgivings," takes a stab at explaining why he abandoned this radical alienation...
...English, he tells us in one of his "Shorts," "can very easily turn nouns, if we wish, into verbs." He proceeds to do so with gusto, not only to nouns but almost every unit of syntax he can get his hands on. Some examples from a single new poem, "Archeology:" "vacancied long ago," "man...has always graved his dead," "what disastered a city," "though gluttoned on sex/And blanded by flattery," "not that all rites should be equally fonded...
Sometimes a poet seems to outlive his greatness. Christopher Isherwood once claimed that you could give Auden a subject and a verse form and he'd bring you back a "perfect" poem in twenty-four hours. In his later years, Auden was no longer able to pour out great poetry effortlessly like this, but he could still write some excellent things, like "Epistle To A Godson." A poet of Auden's quality can never be "washed out;" for what it's worth, Auden was the greatest living English poet even in his decline. But it's still unfortunate...
...paged over sections and catalyzed rumors of its artistry, but they couldn't persuade her to publish. That would cut both an end from her existence--separating her from a "Kief, hashish, and opium pipe," a single staunch friend--and a beginning--because she filters her stories' "myth" and "poem" out of her diary's spreading tide. To Macmillan Co.'s rebuff of her novels as esoteric Nin counters: "An adolescent culture shows the adolescent incapacity to admire, to respect or to evaluate...