Word: poems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Massachusetts family of Life With Father dad, harried mom, newly-wed daughter, boobish son-in-law. Nothing too new there, admittedly, but then mom gets pregnant. And dad gets the gags. Mem: Aren't you excited? happy? [or words to that effect] Doesn't it remind you of a poem? Dad (de-spondently): I shot an arrow into...
Except for a terrified and confusing depiction of Harlem Negroes as Congolese savage-Chiefs, Blood Wedding is Garcia Lorca's most fantastic poem, and his most intense effort to draw dramatic situations from people's most primitive conflicts. Everything is straight and crude: the wedding brings together the son of a powerful widow (who wants him to produce more sons to carry on a family vendetta that killed her husband) and the daughter of a grasping landowner (who wants to grasp more land...
Scholar of Education. In this tradition, the dean of deans has long been William DeVane. In a poem for a 1960 Yale Daily News banquet honoring DeVane, former Harvard Dean McGeorge Bundy (now a White House janizary) described...
Frost's readings, together with his examinations and asides, drew a standing ovation from the audience. He read some of his most famous poems, including "Birches," and some recent works, including "Gift Outright," the poem he wrote for President Kennedy's inauguration...
...group of readings on the "historical problem of Joan of Arc" will be added to "I and E," while a section entitled "What is the Meaning of Keat's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'?" will be cut and replaced by a discussion of a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins...