Word: poems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assembled Seniors and their guests will also hear the Class Poem of Erich W. Segal. The Class Ode, written by L. John Felstiner will be sung by Chorister Frederick Brozer...
...meaning of such a picture-poem is destroyed by literal description. Complete abstraction wreaks equal damage. The two questions--what it contains, and what it means--cannot be isolated. To discuss symbols is also to treat works of art. The goal should be to re-enter the picture via its images--to enhance and enrich the meaning of the work by carefully treating all facets of symbolical connotation...
...Advocate's April issue contains one poem which is not merely an experiment, but is also a poem-for-readers. Richard Sommer's "Three Legends for Fishes" is the finished product of a competent craftsman, and makes the rest of the issue seem unusually amateurish. Although "Legends" would not deserve the American Academy Poetry Prize which Sommer has won in his second year of graduate school, the poem nevertheless shows a consideration for the reader which is conspicuously absent from the work of most younger writers, including the other three contributors to this issue...
...poet such activity may be inevitable, and for Robert Johnston it is not completely fatal. The major function remaining to contemporary poets after the depredations of fiction, history, and science, seems to be the destruction of cliches. The struggles with words which characterize Johnston's newest poem may well be a significant poetic achievement...
...quality of stories and poems in The Editor is not at all high, though there are some welcome pieces from the extremely able pen of Arthur Freeman, who in two poems shows his customary grace and imagination with words. Ruth Whitman, too, has contributed an excellent short poem entitled "Aubade." And Robert Johnson, another gifted poet, appears with "A Poem Baltazar Zevakin," which is both funny and visionary...