Sign In
Categories
- Archival (32)
- Chronos: Arts & Culture (28)
- Chronos: Science, Technology & Ideas (29)
- Chronos: Social Change (29)
- Chronos: War, Politics, & Nature (28)
- CloseRead (40)
- Creative (39)
- Critical (36)
- Final Project (34)
- SnowDay (23)
- Uncategorized (53)
- Wildcard (17)
Tags
- change
- Claude McKay
- creative
- Dead Poet's Society
- DH CREATION PROJECT
- eliot
- Ezra Pound
- form
- Gertrude Stein
- H.D.
- Harryette Mullen
- HD Project
- imagination
- imitation
- Langston Hughes
- Late Modernism
- Mapping Modernism
- Marianne Moore
- Modern
- modernism
- modern poetry
- mullen
- poetics
- poetry
- poetry magazine
- quote
- reality
- Recyclopedia
- s*perm**k*t
- society
- Spring and All
- T.S. Eliot
- Thomas Hardy
- trimmings
- Truth
- Visualization
- Wallace Stevens
- Walt Whitman
- Whitman
- Wilfred Owen
- William Carlos Williams
- William Williams
- women's rights
- WWI
- Yeats
Author Archives: Brooke Fortune
Marriage and Death in “The Railing / The Loom”
In the poem, “The Railing/ The Loom,” Jeffrey Pethybridge focuses on the image of hands, and how the tasks hands fulfill play into life and death. The poem begins with the idea that “there is a formula for the earth … Continue reading
Posted in CloseRead
Comments Off on Marriage and Death in “The Railing / The Loom”
“Theme for English B” in Common Ground
Langston Hughes’s poem, “Theme for English B” from “Montage of a Dream Deferred” was published in an issue of Common Ground in September 1949. Interestingly enough, “Theme for English B” is only one of three poems in the entire issue, … Continue reading
Posted in Archival
Comments Off on “Theme for English B” in Common Ground
A Woodman in Spring Time
I really loved Robert Frost’s “Two Tramps in Mud Time,” and thought it offered a really lovely portrayal of the transitory nature of Spring time, and the contemplative beauty a simple task like wood cutting can hold. As I read … Continue reading
Posted in Creative
Comments Off on A Woodman in Spring Time
The Triumph of the Inhuman in “Hurt Hawks”
In his essay, “Violence, Violation, and the Limits of Ethics in Robinson Jeffers’ ‘Hurt Hawks,’” Jordan L. Green asserts that “Hurt Hawks” is a poem that is both “a harsh portrayal of an unforgiving wilderness” and a challenge “of the … Continue reading
Posted in Critical
Comments Off on The Triumph of the Inhuman in “Hurt Hawks”
Tracking 1924
Arts and Culture On February 12, George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue was performed for the first time at the Aeolian Hall in New York City. The composition combined elements of classical music with jazz and secured Gershwin’s a reputation as … Continue reading
Regionalism in Modern American Poetry
Project Description: Often, Modernism is perceived as a transnational, cosmopolitan literary movement. While that is true, it’s interesting to examine Modernity not on a continental scale, but through the more marginal perspectives: work that doesn’t seek to engage with the … Continue reading
Posted in Final Project
2 Comments
Common Grit in “The Wasteland”
One of the sequences I found most interesting in Eliot’s “The Wasteland” are lines 139-172 from A Game of Chess. The speaker of this section converses in a bar with a woman named Lil whose husband, Albert is returning from … Continue reading
Self-dependence in “Tea at the Palaz of Hoon”
In “Tea at the Palaz of Hoon,” Wallace Stevens uses the self and the mind as a point of stability in a world teeming with questions and uncertainty. The chaos of the post-war environment is left behind in favor of … Continue reading
From Publication to Destitution: Maxwell Bodenheim
William Carlos Williams’s “The Young Housewife” was published in December 1916 in the third volume of Others magazine. “The Young Housewife,” in addition to several other of Williams’s poems including “Danse Russe,” is sandwiched between chunks of poetry by Maxwell … Continue reading
“Sunday Morning” in Negation
I really loved the second stanza of Wallace Stevens’s “Sunday Morning.” It presents such a hopeful, Romantic outlook on the world, as opposed to the more pessimistic responses seen in poetry such as Eliot’s. That being said, I thought it … Continue reading