Word: stanzas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first two periods, with B.U. holding an edge in play. The Terriers looked especially strong after the 15-minute mark of each frame: they scored twice in the last three minutes of the first period to tie the score at 2-2; then at 17:21 of the next stanza to knot the contest...
...epitaph, she once wryly suggested "Excuse my dust." But she also wrote, in her "Epitaph for a Darling Lady," the sentimental last stanza...
...three Horatian poems, the version of the Cleopatra ode (Nuncest bibendum, nunc pede libero/ pulsanda tellus ...) seems the best. The first stanza is ecstatic...
...clear, and properly depressing. But the final poem, itself called "Near the Ocean," although it boasts an impressive technical display of straight rhymes, off-rhymes, and sight rhymes, and some extremely forceful language, is loosely constructed and lacks the clarity of the other pieces. The police in the last stanza of "The Opposite House, the lion and the kitten in "Central Park," the end of "Fourth of July" set in the firelight in the dead of winter--these are all memorable moments in this collection,and by no means all of them. The short poem "For Theodore Roethke...
...which the narrator is summoned to church by electric bells to hear the hymns which "sign of peace and preach despair. "Decline and the brink of despair, commonly held by those who spent their youth in the shadows of Domitian and Hitler, are powerfully communicated in this fine stanza...