Word: poems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ruled despotically for 14 years, survived repeated rebellions, and liked to behead his numerous enemies in public. No one is quite sure why Sallal was plotting against the Imam, but one theory is that Sallal is a Nasser sympathizer and Nasser hated the Imam for a rude poem he had once written about Arab socialism...
...teacher of English and literature at the University of California, Associate Professor Ostroff, 38, at first appears to be merely an observer, setting his view of things in an orderly, formal verse that is metered, rhymed and spare. But with the resolution of each poem, it becomes evident that he is above all an epistemologist, tirelessly examining the nature of understanding, endlessly checking the value of knowledge. In The Lady and the Physician, Ostroff has his doctor, who writes a prescription for a case of cosmic loneliness, muse on the nature of blunt science...
Poet Frost himself read this poem to a Russian audience in Moscow last week, was greeted with uncomprehending silence...
...Sarton, a well-known American poet and novelist, read selections from her latest volume of poetry, Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine, to a large audience in Allston Burr B last Wednesday afternoon. It was last session of the Wednesday soon Poetry Reading Series. Miss Sarton opened her program with "a poem about coming home" called "Aux Saisons aux Chateaux." She explained that she had just returned from a five-month journey to Japan, India, and Greece. Cambridge, where she spent much of her youth, is one of several places which she considers home...
...good place to scratch." By close analysis, Empson has washed away many misreadings of poetry; by showing how varied and inventive poets are, he has often made them more exciting. But he may also frighten off readers who translate his lesson as: if you think you understand a poem, there is something wrong with you−or the poem. As a result, many a reader has felt that poetry was less a pleasure than a test, and decided not to bother with...