Word: poeticizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since Mrs. Suzman and many other Verwoerd opponents are Jews, Nationalist backbenchers shifted from white supremacy to antiSemitism, shouting: "Go to Israel!" One Nationalist M.P. was more poetic. He told Mrs. Suzman, "You are a finch chirping on a thorn tree...
Taken alone, deceptively simple poems like this seem to lack substance. But like the threads of a spider web, a garland of such verse woven together creates a captivating world. Its charm, perhaps, is that it seems oldfashioned. Ransom's courtly poetic rhetoric seems antique to the ear of an age that banned charm and rhetoric from poetry in order to come to grips with life. Newcomers wandering in Ransom's poetic kingdom are likely to bark a shin on such arch words as "pernoctated," or be mildly astonished at the poet's unfashionable fondness for bucolic...
...kiss, The pieces kiss again, no end to this ... Equilibrists lie here; stranger, tread light; Close, but untouching in each other's sight; Mouldered the lips and ashy the tall skull. Let them lie perilous and beautiful. Full of tart paradox and sweet passion, Ransom is himself a poetic equilibrist of rare skill. Girded against sentiment with irony, against dullness with wit and cerebral learning, he yet manages to convey the flavor of an innocent past when poetry was thought to treat directly of such things as Truth and Beauty. When he accepted the 1964 award, with typical courtesy...
DYLAN. A legendary actor, Alec Guin ness, plays a legendary poet, Dylan Thom as, during his punishing reading tours of the U.S. The drama is sustained by Dylan's sly humor, poetic insights, self-abrasive remorse and fierce, hurting battles with his wife...
DYLAN. A legendary actor, Alec Guinness, plays a legendary poet, Dylan Thomas, during his punishing reading tours of the U.S. The drama is sustained by Dylan's sly humor, poetic insights, self-abrasive remorse, and fierce, hurting battles with his wife...