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Burke's friend Taaka Awori also delivered a speech of her memories of the upstate New York native. Michelle Webb, another one of Burke's friends, read the poem "Slow me down, Lord!" by Gail Bishop...
Although Yevtushenko was branded a rebel in the late 1950s, he has since become an Establishment figure. This past September, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda printed a Yevtushenko poem, considered in step with Gorbachev's thinking, that attacked sluggish bureaucrats. In his address, Yevtushenko also condemned favors bestowed on the party elite. "Any form of closed food and commodity distribution is morally impermissible," he said, "including the special ration cards to visit souvenir booths that are in the pockets of all the delegates to this congress, myself included." He also indirectly denounced Stalin's reign of terror throughout the 1930s...
...last of the World War I poets, and the title poem of Over the Brazier (1916), his first book of verse, foresaw the Lost Generation: "What life to lead and where to go/ After the War, after the War?" Critics in the early 1920s classed and anthologized Graves as a Georgian poet. In the late 1920s, his close analysis of a Shakespeare sonnet impressed Critic William Empson and led, indirectly, to the textual scrutinies of the New Criticism of the 1940s...
...reading a poem similar to Old Man and the Sea," said Tom Malone '87 as he leafed through some of the Cliff's Notes which Store 24 has recently started to stock. "And now that I know these are here," he said of the student aids, "I'll frequent the store and browse through them...
ADAPTING ANY POEM for a dramatic presentation is a tall order, let alone wading through the murky images and innuendoes of one by T. S. Eliot. Call it dramatic suicide, but Director and Harkness Scholar Andrew Sullivan keeps Eliot's entire text of Four Quartets intact while lucidly portraying the poet's struggle with calendar and metaphysical time...