Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trucks. Any scheme to employ planes on such a grand scale is as heroic in composition as a Beethoven symphony, as knotty in detail as differential calculus. It is a task for poetic imagination far grander than Tennyson's in Locksley Hall, which 100 years ago "saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales. . . ." And it is an even greater practical task. But the argosies are being planned. The Army says that by the end of this summer cargo cartage by air will be the biggest single...
...besieged the city. Nine miles south of Sevastopol is the town of Balaklava, where the Light Brigade's 600 rode against the Russian batteries. Last week many times 600 Nazis died near Balaklava, but the Russians called their defensive maze of gunpits and tank traps nothing so poetic as "the valley of death." They called it "the meat grinder." Jaws of the grinder were two stony heights, Fediukhiny to the south and Mekenzevy to the east. Guns emplaced on these slopes commanded all the land approaches to Sevastopol. Below them, and between them and the city, was an unbroken...
...padded. The lyrics, excepting an occasional piece like "Come In" or "A Young Wretch," seem minor, and occasionally trite. Emphasizing the short line and two-syllable rhyme, poems like "A Considerable Speck" are characterized by occasional flashes of epigrammatic brilliance which, though causing a quick chortle, tend to destroy poetic unity and completeness. In extended form these epigrams frequently become rapid-fire social commentary, and here Frost seems beyond his depth. Knowing the farms and people of New England, he is lost when he strays into the maze of an international industrial society; and the bewildered fear that creeps into...
What is called poetic justice was meted out in large measure yesterday, when the compulsory athletic program claimed as its first victims, two directors of the conditioning classes, Norman Fradd and Al McCoy...
...Verdigris River. The birds had come; they flopped their ungainly wings, carrying new twigs to the slovenly nests where they have lived for generations. In river-bottom gumbo fields, farm boys trotted behind the plows, picking up angle worms from the fresh furrows. Old William Allen White waxed poetic in his Emporia Gazette over the first yellow crocuses on the Y.W.C.A. lawn. Emporia farmers noted with satisfaction that the first pig litters averaged three more than last year...