Author Archives: Katie B

Bad Modern Bitches

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Katie B

Click the picture of Edna St. Vincent Millay frolicking below to see our website! For our final project we decided to spin a twist on the research of modern female poets.  Reading boring biographies of female poets we liked and … Continue reading →

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Sunset on the Bridge

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Katie B

Although I was incredibly intrigued by all of the poems in Striven, The Bright Treatise by Jeffrey Pethybridge I would have to say the two I found most interesting visually were the pull out poem The Sad Tally on pages … Continue reading →

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Apathy in Negroes by Charles Reznikoff

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Katie B

The poem Negroes by Charles Reznikoff tells the tale of just one “negro,” rather than multiple as the title might suggest. However, upon reading the poem, it comes to realization that the title is plural because what happened to this … Continue reading →

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The Importance of Harriet Monroe

Posted on March 13, 2014 by Katie B

Along with being a poet, Harriet Monroe was an editor, literary critic, as well as founder of Poetry magazine.  Some of her poetry was published in this magazine in January of 1927, a year that we have briefly touched on … Continue reading →

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Women, Sarcasm, and Honesty

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Katie B

Although “Women” by Louise Bogan comes across as making women very inferior, it is quite noticeable that the poem is meant to be satirical.  Upon reading the poem the first time, I was somewhat taken aback and upset at the … Continue reading →

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Feminism in Modern Poetry

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Katie B

For the final project, Logan Berman and I were considering making an interactive website  tracing feminism in modern poetry.  We would create this website using a site builder like Wix.  The website would give biographies of different female poets who … Continue reading →

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William Carlos Williams’s Liberation within Spring and All

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Katie B

In George Hart’s essay, “‘The Power of Confusion’: Spring and All’s Prose, Poetry, and Poetics,” Hart is arguing the fact that the confusion in Williams’s Spring and All is an accurate portrayal of what modernist poetry is.  Hart argues that … Continue reading →

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Claude McKay vs. Langston Hughes

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Katie B

In comparing Langston Hughes’s poem to the poems we have read by Claude McKay so far, it is very easy to see a huge difference in not only the style of writing but the poetry’s main subject matter.  In Claude … Continue reading →

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Historical Happenings of 1920-1921

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Katie B

Arts & Culture The Summer Olympics open in Belgium, where the symbol of the five interlocking rings are first displayed.  The National Football League is formed in September of 1920, first called the American Professional Football Association.  The first domestic … Continue reading →

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The Harlem Dancer’s Secret

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Katie B

  Claude McKay’s The Harlem Dancer is a perfect example of poetry that creates incredibly vivid imagery.  This poem follows the form of the traditional Shakespearian sonnet, with a rhyme scheme of a-b-a-b-c-d-c-d-e-f-e-f-g-g.  The poem starts quite abruptly, setting up … Continue reading →

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