Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occupies several pages in this Advocate and most of it is good if not exceptional. David Chandler's Sonnet achieves a poignant, sustained effect from a careful control of visual images and brilliantly worded passages. Neither the cadence, sound, nor form interfere with his feelings on growing up. The poem advances smoothly and communicates directly. Southampton Beach, by Charles Neuhauser, relies more on sense impressions and reflections inspired by them. In places, the impressions seem redundant, yet the transitions to reflection are expertly handled. It is sometimes difficult to know exactly what Neuhauser is saying, however, because he uses...
...control some highly imaginative metaphors. What Winifred Hare means to imply in her caption, Song for Two People on Three Instruments, I will not venture to guess. Regardless of what she refers to, her piece creates a pleasant, colorful mood in fresh medieval tone. Considering her intent, this poem is the brightest...
...current issue of the Lampoon has touches of pathos, murkiness, and banality; everything, in fact, except humor. Except for the traditional introductory poem there is almost nothing in the issue written with a gloss of genuine with, a bad state of affairs for what is ostensibly a humour magazine. Perhaps its crusading editors, saddened by the results of the recent elections, decided that frivolity would be out of place in the November issue; at any rate the whole magazine has a decidedly sombre tone...
...afore-mentioned introductory poem by Harry Ziegler is followed by a long, exaggerated satire on the admissions policy of the Harvard Hygiene department. Charles Osborne is one of the magazine's best writers, and when one of the characters remarks, "We here at Hygiene are dedicated to the belief that medicine, since the eighteenth century, has gone soft--needs a shot in the arm," his satire is effective. Most of the story, however, is too grossly ludicrous to have much impact...
Another short poem by Ziegler--who does very well at this--and a well-written but tedious account of a fox hunt from the fox's eyes lead the reader to the last two stories, both of which are rather mis-begotten efforts. One is about a dour Maine lobsterman who waits patiently for his father's death to be willed his fishing boat only to have the will leave the boat's engine to his uncle. This is hardly an intrinsically amusing situation...