Word: poems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With that one-liner, a new young folk singer named Biff Rose begins his lead-in to a song extolling Salinger's conquer or, George Murphy, the actor-hoofer who is now the junior Senator from California. He then goes on to recite a poem about the days of the whaling ships, supplying the sound of the anchors schlurping up from the bottom and the howls of storms at sea. His hero, Captain Medford, was a big man in New Bedford, he explains, in an era when there were 700 whaling ships "and only about 200 whales...
...Gone was the photo of the bald head, the round face unsmiling above the five medals, the six-line biography describing his rise to Chairman of the Council of Ministers and First Party Secretary. Even the fellow's inspirational quote on the back gave way to an anonymous poem praising party modesty. Thus, by having his birthday wiped from the state calendar, did Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev become an "unperson...
...poetic public was taken aback by Ash-Wednesday, his first published poem in five years. Subdued and introspective, it was also religious to the point of being liturgical...
...long-standing directions, his ashes are to be placed in the parish church at East Coker, the Somersetshire village from which, in the 17th century, his ancestor Andrew Eliot had set out for America. East Coker is also the title Eliot gave to one of the Four Quartets; the poem's first line...
Interesting as he was as a playwright, influential as he was as a critic, yet it is his poetry, finally, that will survive. In five lines of the poem Whispers of Immortality he really said more about Donne than in all of his famous essay on the metaphysical poets...