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...series of dramatically disparate moments.Moreover, the plot’s implications become exceedingly confusing, as the viewer simply cannot reconcile Brawne’s excessive declarations of love—at one point she compares her feelings when she is not with Keats to suffocation—with the poet??s apparent disinterest. Does Keats simply not feel the same way as Brawne? Does the poet??s loyalty or fiscal obligation to Brown simply supersede his love? Sadly, this confusion seems entirely unintentional.The film’s finale only exacerbates these narrative faults. After falling...
...sonnet, usually demarcating a turn in thought. And though a sestet can be any six-lined stanza or poem, with “Sestets,” the latest volume of poetry by Charles Wright, it is helpful to think of that one. As the 20th volume for the poet??a Pulitzer and Griffin Prize winner—“Sestets” marks a high point in the progress of a style of contemplation that Wright has made his own over the years.Although Wright has always shown a skill for distilling an experience and recording...
...like air.” Sylvia Plath’s strong voice projects from a black rectangular machine resting on a table. A dozen people sit in surrounding blue chairs, listening attentively. Some hold anthologies of Sylvia Plath’s poetry and follow along with the poet??s recorded voice. Others merely listen. On Friday afternoons in the George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room in Lamont Library, visitors gather to appreciate the recordings of prominent poets as part of REEL TIME, one of the new programs recently installed under the direction of new curator Christina S. Davis. Since...
...Oxbridge candidates,” they must face the reality of adulthood, while their flavorful, poetical English professor Mr. Hector fights to protect the boys’ playful youth.Ostensibly, Hector (Ilan J. Caplan ’10) parallels the Mr. Keating of “The Dead Poet??s Society.” But while Keating only provides literature, Hector offers illicit sexual encounters. His inability to distance himself emotionally enables “The History Boys” to dig deeper into the student-teacher relationship, divulging the unspoken sexual tensions that can develop when malleable adolescents...
...Chief among these is its unity of vision, its continual concern with the similarity of human life to animal life, of our continuity with our animal ancestors. Not only is this a unique and compelling theme for a book of poetry, it also provides a framework in which the poet??s less outlandish imagery can at times be evocative and startling. The collection’s most moving lines, from “Sympathetic Magic,” are an illustration of this: “We fell out below human range, / with a kitten?...