Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...READ Margaret Atwood's own voice--as opposed to one of the many voices of her fictional and poetic personae--is to see the feminist motto "the personal is political" in a new light. Atwood once described herself in an interview as a "de facto feminist," taking the position that every intelligent woman is a feminist--but she can also argue from the standpoint of a crusader for women's rights, a poet, a novelist, a pioneering critic of Canadian literature, a Canadian nationalist, and an Amnesty International activist. The essays in Second Words emanate from all these Atwoods...
...immediately, because that argument has often been used as a basis for pot-shots at poets of all types. But Williamson sees no need to go on the defensive, and the assumption that underlies his refusal "to apologize for regarding the self as one of the great human and poetic subjects," is a correct one. As Williamson points out, such poetry is less susceptible to vague abstraction since it less often presumes to make universal generalizations. He does not need to add that critiques of a poem's subject matter are often a substitute for proper scrutiny...
...poet" is unlikely to be challenged by the volume's 14 linked poems (sample: "The wind grows louder about me, shrill with pain,/ And blows the petalled faces from my heart"). But scholarly assessments of the novelist are already being revised to include a deepened appreciation of the poetic influences on his prose style...
...American dream they have not quite assimilated. By touching this language with the accents of Brooklyn's old ethnic neighborhoods, this company simultaneously grounds the dialogue in the reality that formed Miller and his play, and grants his rhetoric, at last, the full weight, color and, yes, poetic power one sensed was waiting to be unlocked...
Kuralt's official destination that day was a one-man steam sawmill outside Onalaska, owned and operated by Gene Frase, 70, a laconic, down-to-earth man who turns downright poetic when he talks about his conflicting passions: the sweetly efficient steam engine and the lost stands of tall trees that the mill engines turned into lumber. The next day, Kuralt interviewed senior Elephant Keeper Roger Henneous at the Washington Park Zoo. In both cases, much of the filming had already been done by another crew before Kuralt arrived on the scene. His schedule these days, which also includes...