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Eminent literary critic M.H. Abrams ’34 addressed a rapt crowd in Lamont Library yesterday, emphasizing the value of appreciating poetry by reading it out loud. The bespectacled scholar spoke to an overflowing crowd in a lecture entitled “On Reading Poems Aloud” in the library’s Forum Room. “Read the lines aloud so as to savor the enunciation of the sweet sound,” he instructed his audience. “Can you taste the consonants? You should,” he added, after the crowd?...
...emblematic moment from Tracy Chevalier’s latest novel “Burning Bright,” two children read together the richly indeterminate opening lines to William Blake’s poem “The Tyger”: “Tyger tyger, burning bright / In the forests of the night / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”“What’s ‘symmetry’?” questions one Jem Kellaway, replicating in microcosm the now well-established project of each Chevalier novel...
...even if it may be painful. “You have a choice in workshop to make changes or not.” says Boudreau. “Sometimes I don’t agree with what a person says at all. But if they get that from my poem, then maybe I should think about what I want it to convey.”PRIDE AND PREJUDICEThe difficulties faced by students regarding creative writing workshops pales in comparison with the challenge of achieving the elusive holy grail of Harvard creative writing: the creative thesis. Spots are even harder...
...first few pages of its coursepack—a full $15 binder—shock readers with repetitive mention of the word “cunt,” sketches of vaginas, and of course, a Sappho poem. While women are making headway in society, the workplace and politics, FemSex’s claims that, on the cultural liberation front, women and their sexuality have been left behind. But while the class provides a useful outlet for some repressed souls on campus, the irony of its mission eclipses its value...
...Trachtenberg uses him as a launching point from which he examines the various artistic representations of the bridge throughout the first half of the 20th century and addresses the question of why the bridge recurs so often in American art and literature. Hart Crane’s 1930 epic poem “The Bridge” is beautifully interwoven with thoughts on the bridge’s multiplicity in perception and representation.Trachtenberg’s array of facts, names, and tidbits is what makes his writing simultaneously insightful and difficult to read. Each of Trachtenberg?...