Word: stanzas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second half, the Crimson came alive. Wiley, who tossed for 312 yards in the first half alone, could pick up only 78 more in the second stanza...
...looks back, Wilbur acknowledges that he often worked at odds with evolving fashions. He did not pick up the rhythm of the Beats or the lacerating self-display of such confessional poets as Sylvia Plath. "It just comes naturally to me to work in meters, rhyme, stanza forms. There were times when it seemed dreadfully stuffy, in some sense reactionary, to write in that manner. I have no case against any other way of writing. I did what I could...
...that fourth period, the Crimson outscored the Rockets, 4-3. It was the biggest game in many of the Harvard players' lives, and that last stanza was, according to some players, a partial victory...
...give a public reading, I often choose Vachel Lindsay's "General William Booth Enters into Heaven," which is a poem of its own kind, and has | no mate in English literature. The first six stanzas are semiserious, semicomical, but I always read the last stanza with caution, in case my voice should break...
...shall trespass on the editor's hospitality with one more quotation. It is a stanza that I would have been proud to have written, and it states a profound truth about the human condition in the simplest of words. It is taken from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur, translated by Edward Fitzgerald...