Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poetry in the Commencement issue seems largely designed to prove the esoteric leanings of Advocate contributors, for three of the poems have works of art as their subjects. Jennifer MacLeish (no relation) is the most successful, possibly because her poem about the mystic love of St. Francis is simple in conception, which allows a great deal of lyric beauty. Her rhythm comes in soft waves, like the gliding of the proverbial spiritual dove, and she implements it by her visual construction, which gives the impression of ascension. While Derry Griscom's more complex poem about the sculpted figure...
Allen Grossman treats a more perennial problem than current cultural insanity in his poem about isolated man searching for a lasting love. Although the meaning of some of Grossman's lines is not quite clear, the poem is rich and provocative. Peter Junger's two poems are much less fertile, being didactic poems, each with one precisely defined idea which never really develops after the first line. Sallie Bingham tries to develop the one idea in her poem, unfortunately not by looking at it in several lights, but by immersing herself in a stew of moralizing...
Romeo and Juliet. Never has Shakespeare's love poem been so splendidly set-among the Renaissance remains of Venice, Verona, Siena (TIME...
Within four days, Goodie called the honeymoon off, raced back to the convention. "I hardly saw him at all," lamented the bride. But Virginia Knight recovered in time to compose a poem, which Goodie used as a campaign song...
Humphrey J. Fisher '55 has been awarded the John Osborne Sergeant prize for the best metrical transmissions of a lyric poem of Korea. The announcement of the $200 award was made by Sergent Kennedy '25, secretary of the faculty of Arts and Sciences...