Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pomp and Circumstance Elgar *"The Bartered Bride," Overture Smetana "Whispering Flowers" Blon *"Aida," Fantasia Verdi *"Finlandia," Symphonic Poem Sibelius *Prelude to "The Deluge" Saint-Saens Violin Solo: J. Theodorowicz *"The Cid," Suite Massenet *Victor Herbert Favorites Arranged by Sanford *"Roses from the South," Waltz Strauss *Bacchanale, "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Saens...
Most of the poems which are presented after this introduction bear out Mr. Craig's assertion. One notable exception, however, is Ruben Darlo's "To Roosevelt". In this poem there is nothing unworldly: the poem starts with an expression of Latin-America's admiration for the driving energy of the United States, symbolized by Theodore Roosevelt, then bursts into a violently nationalistic denunciation of the United States' imperialistic aims...
...This poem is the exception rather than the rule, however. The majority deal with less purely materialistic subjects. Particularly interesting to Americans is the long series of "Poemas De Amor" (Poems of Love"), by Pablo Neruda. The influence of Walt Whitman's frank free-verse avowals of sensuality is here-shown by poems strikingly similiar both in form and content to those in "Leaves of Grass." Even Whitman's phrase "Song of the male and of the female" is here repeated...
...vividly descriptive "Sonfonia en Gris Mayor" (Symphony in Gray). In this is given a very real picture of the sea on a glassy calm day and of an old salt who sits at the sea's edge endlessly watching. Again, to show his versatile nature, Dario has written a poem called "Friso" (Frieze). Here classical images and classical scenes are handled in a manner reminiscent of Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn". Some of the best poems in the collection are by Ruben Dario...
EFFICIENCY EXPERT - Florence Converse-Day ($2.50). The blueprints on the office-wall, The graphs and the statistical Tables of averages, all Praised him mightily: , "Venite Exultemus." So Author Converse begins a poem on the Depression that might have turned out a satire if her Christian sympathy had not got the better of her partisan indignation. A 172-page narrative in various verses, Efficiency Expert is another indication that long poems are coming out of hiding, may once again come to be used effectively as satire, narrative or tract. Author Converse's poem is a tract in the form...