Word: thought
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Naked exulting in strength and life, They ran their race without thought of gain...
...from these two poems, and is at once raised to a higher level by the fact that it is not more playing with metrical forms, but an obviously sincere endeavor to express something. Despite its patent technical shortcomings, it succeeds in a degree sufficient to justify itself. Precisely what thought underlies its compressed and complex sympathetic imagery one would, it is true, hesitate, even after a considerate reading, to pronounce with much precision. But the purport is clear enough, the mood is undeniably poetic, and it touches the imagination. Like much modern poetry it has the virtue of bringing agreeable...
...risk of being thought an iconoclast in a community where traditions are all too few, the writer ventures a suggestion which may seem to many too radical for even a moment's consideration...
...considered second rate, as Achilles is not a very sympathetic hero; and were it not for his misery and repentance at the end, most readers would dislike him because of his arrogance and self-conceit. There are in the poem many inconsistencies, such as various descriptions which cannot be thought out, and similes which are not strictly applicable. In examining various instances of these inconsistencies the conclusion seems to be that the high poetic value of the Iliad must be considerably detracted from. We see many of the similes and descriptions taken over ready-made from order books or traditions...
...pulled together in athletics. We have too often used petty disagreements for wedges to force apart our common interests. Mr. Whitney attributes this lack of unity to the "adoration of the unbridled ego." Perhaps he is right, but we think it is rather the result of generations of individual thought and action which have made Harvard stand for what it does today. For the newspaper notoriety which our disagreements invariably gain, we are not to blame except as they originate from Harvard men, and renewed expressions of contempt in these cases are hardly necessary...