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Author Archives: Ellen Butler
Imitation of Mullen’s Prose Poetry Style
I decided to try my hand at an imitation of Mullen’s social-commentary-infused and linguistically rich prose poetry. With her heavy use of alliteration, rolling rhythms, dynamic turns, and subtle, insightful humor, I found Mullen’s poetry fascinating and wanted to try … Continue reading
“Scene with no Subject”: an imitation of “Landscape With the Fall of Icarus”
I attempted an imitation of Williams’s “Landscape With the Fall of Icarus” with an ekphrastic poem of my own that mimics Williams’s style and tone. I’ve used a piece of modern art by Kandinsky entitled “Reiter (Lyrishes)” to write of. … Continue reading
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Brooklyn Bridge: A Symbol of Integration for a Social Outsider
In his investigation of Hart Crane’s poetry through in the context of his homosexuality, his social identity as an outsider, Thomas Yingling writes in ” Hart Crane and the Homosexual Text: New Thresholds, New Anatomies” of Crane’s “Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge” by … Continue reading
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The Roaring Twenties
Arts & Culture: In February of 1924, George Gershwin’s acclaimed musical composition Rhapsody in Blue premiered in the concert “An Experiment in Modern Music” at Aeolian Hall in New York. Written for a jazz band and solo piano, Gershwin’s piece combined … Continue reading
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XI: Williams’s Poetic Realization of Confusion,Isolation, Separation, Liberation
In William Carlos Williams’s poem entitled “XI” in his anthology “Spring and All” he presents a picture of disparate elements, where each snippet of a seemingly objectified image is presented in concise two-line stanzas. He begins the poem with a … Continue reading
DH Creation Project Proposal: Modernist Female Poets and the Feminine Archetype–revised
Mythology has played a significant and traceable role in the history of Western literature. The divine narratives of antiquity have allowed poets and authors across the Western canon to conceive of contemporary experience in terms of a culturally, historically, and personally integrated mythology. At the … Continue reading
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Stevens and Subjectivity
With “The Snow Man” Wallace Stevens presents a bleak landscape that deliberately evokes forlorn, hopeless feelings. Yet alongside the presentation of such images, Stevens offers a decidedly content, if not tranquil commentary. His opening lines “One must have a mind … Continue reading
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“The Wasteland” and its Cultural Context
T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” was originally published in October 1922 in the first volume of the English literary magazine “The Criterion,” which Eliot himself started and edited. It appeared in the US only weeks later in the American literary … Continue reading
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“Six Ways of Listening to Silence”: A Stevens Imitation
I used Wallace Steven’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” as a model for an imitative poem. I focused on the way in which Stevens used different aspects of an objective image to present a subjective understanding of it … Continue reading
Hinging on a Semi-colon: Pound’s Deliberate Punctuation
In the article “Pound’s ‘Metro’ Hokku: The Evolution of an Image,” Chilton Randolph and Carol Gilbertson argue for the subtle importance of Pound’s choice of punctuation in “In a Station of the Metro” in the context of Pound’s Imagiste and Vorticist … Continue reading