Word: poeticize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England, sturdy Kipling friends claim he never wrote and it is omitted from his Collected Works. A better reason and more probable for not making him Poet Laureate was that in such an official post it is safer for the United Kingdom to have someone who confines himself to "poetic themes" and does not lash out with infuriated honesty at Boches, the Yankees and the cinema...
...Swing," is to jazz what the poetic spirit is to poetry. Its exact definition, however, has given jazzmen many a troubled hour. Author Hugues Panassie of the classic Le Jazz Hot tentatively explains "swing" as "une sorte de balancement dans de rythme et la mélodic qui comporte toujours un grand dynamisme." To black Bandmaster Chick Webb of Harlem's Savoy Ballroom, swing "is like lovin' a special girl, and you don't see her for a year, and then she comes back it's somethin' inside...
...unity, are diverse. Some reveal their slavish adherence to a path which they have not enriched by plundering for old measures and pedantic allusions; others have stolen in order to bring to us something compounded, in the best classical manner of the past and the present as their poetic minds envision it, Hackneyed themes are abundant, much too abundant, one fears, for the future of collegiate verse in this country. Surely the University of Hard Knocks has gone farther than the two poetic stops of last century: love and nature? Practice among the undergraduate would seem to give a negative...
...conquest of space, is symbolized by quotations from the notes of the Wright brothers, by technical discussions of flight, by a glimpse of a young aviator awakening. These are contrasted, in a sequence whose pattern is not clear, with scenes of the horrors of modern society-a lynching, a poetic evocation of the trial of the Scottsboro Negroes. The mood of spiritual desolation expressed in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and echoed by a thousand imitators has no place or significance in this world. On the contrary, the poet gives an impression of eagerness and determination...
...South African notables of her day. THROUGH MY OPEN DOOR - Lucia Whitney-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Story of the ten-year illness of a well-known U. S. novelist who writes under a pseudonym, gives her impressions of the affairs of her friends as they appeared to an emotional, poetic, bedridden observer...