Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such movers and shapers of modern verse as Rilke, Valéry, Eliot and Yeats. There is a family resemblance linking Pasternak to these Western poets, but it is that of a distant cousin, not a brother. An occasional image carries the haunting echo of kinship. For example, one poem of Pasternak's begins...
...handwriting on God's wall, or at least as the outward sign of an unseen and perhaps mystical order of things. And with the romantics, Boris Pasternak shares the belief that the creative imagination is itself divine, sharing in God's own creativity. A famed and difficult poem of Pasternak's, called The Racing Stars, illuminates both style and substance and also reveals that rigid economy of means that sometimes masks Pasternak's difficult meanings...
David Landon's Six Poems have for the most part neither the virtue of pleasing sound nor coherent sense. One piece, called Heat Lightning begins with the truly incredible line, "The city has a thousand elbows" and goes on to picture men pacing "like armor" with each one carrying a building on his back. The carelessness in this poem is evident to a greater or lesser degree in all of the others. They read as though the poet had chosen his theme, the depiction of a certain impotence, a certain deficiency in communication, and attacked it again and again, rapidly...
...inspiration for Beatnik Gregory Corso's poem Bomb [Sept. 7] might well have been the oft-chanted Episcopal (Book of Common Prayer) Benedicite, omnia opera Domini...
...show them that he is convinced, and indeed this is all he has to do. And beyond this he has to impress people with his own life, with what he is as an individual, what he says, and what he thinks, the way he drinks beer or reads a poem. Those who like him for what he is can always say he would be the same in any event, that Catholicism has made not the slightest difference except to get him up earlier on Sundays. They can say this, but in most cases it will not be what they think...