Word: poems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...portmanteau word, combining snake and shark, invented by Lewis Carroll for the ineluctable prey of his poem, "The Hunting of the Snark." One variety-the Boojum-had the power to make its hunter "softly and suddenly vanish away...
This is less a book than a Christmas card. With the help of some singularly uninspiring illustrations, the publishers have contrived to stretch the American edition of T. S. Eliot's first poem since Four Quartets-all of 34 lines long-into a book of ten pages. Eliot at Christmastime, as might be expected, is no Dickens. He opens magisterially: "There are several attitudes towards Christmas''-and proceeds to plead for the child's attitude. He cannot, of course, help noticing the cosmic worm in the plum pudding ("The awareness of death, the consciousness of failure...
...works. The club was perfectly still in its awe as Capote began, "Grass." The poet waited several minutes, then said, "Green grass." The audience was thrilled. Capote caught their fever, "Green grass growing." Rapport was complete, reader and audience were exhausted with the beauty and strength of the poem, but Capote gathered himself for a final burst, "Blades of green grass growing in a meadow...
...Scholarship announced yesterday that the lota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Radcliffe will award five prizes of $25.00 each this Spring. Three of these prizes will be for original compositions in the fields of Science, Fiction and Social Studies. The remaining two will be for the best original poem and musical composition...
...inspiration for another poem, Provide, Provide was a strike of the University's scrubbing staff. The work begins, "The witch that came (the withered hag) to wash the steps with pail...