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...Tannhauser" Wagner Overture to "Poet and Peasant" Supre Prelude in C-sharp minor Rachmaninov Fantasia, "Aida" Verdi Suite, "Sigurd Jersaliar" Grieg a. In the Hall of the King b. Festival Marea Saeterjentens Sondag (Solitude on the Mountain) Bull Svendsell Swedish Wedding March Soderman Second Norwegian Rhapsody Svendsen Finlandia, Symphonic Poem Sibelius Humeresque Tehaikovsky-Jacchia Waltz "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" Strauss
Those are just a few favorite examples, but the correspondences continue. With a little punctuation and some conjunctions, one high school’s AP review list of allusions and terms turns into a weird poem on current events: “A dramatic monologue: a soliloquy. Subjectivity, objectivity, and euphemism. Conceit: hyperbole. Inversion and irony… the tragic flaw. Protagonist or antihero? Point of view! Epic elements, oxymoronic furies, paradoxical fates. Icarus and Daedalus, or Tantalus and Sisyphus? Or Pandora...
...Yeats forty years ago, Vendler was disturbed by a trend in Yeatsian scholarship that continues to this day. “A lot of the work that had been done at the time on Yeats was biographical and historical, and not enough attention had been paid to the poems,” Vendler recalls. Nowhere in many of the most thorough studies of Yeats’ career, Vendler laments, does it mention the poetic structure of his work. “The poets take a lot of pain in not writing prose, so if you ignore the pains they have...
...with Grolier, Harvard itself has a special duty. When a beloved pub closes, it is heart wrenching but divorced from the University’s core mission. Poems, far more than pubs, are central to Harvard’s hopes for the promotion of education and culture. The value of a poem cannot be measured in dollars and cents. Harvard needs poetry—the Square needs poetry—and in this particular case poetry needs Harvard. We strongly encourage Harvard to investigate how to guarantee that Grolier stay afloat. If Harvard...
...every Athena production, on the night of the last dress rehearsal, I write a really dumb poem about the production and send it to the cast/crew lists in order to psych people up for the show. Then, while the cast is warming up at every performance, I give “symbolic gifts”—usually really cheap stuff I buy at CVS that has to do with the show in some way. I guess this has very little to do with the “creative process,” but it gets people excited about...