Author Archives: Taylor Dixon

What the Heck is Trimmings?

For my wildcard post, I was interested in how the academic world responded to the publishing of Trimmings by Harryette Mullen. Gertrude Stein, the poet whom Mullen drew much inspiration from, was a controversial figure in her own right, and I … Continue reading

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That Good Ole’ Southern Road

“Southern Road” by Sterling Brown consists of seven stanzas and forty lines of entertaining, sometimes hard to understand, vernacular of the Southern negro during the time of slavery. Being a slave in the South during this time was a life … Continue reading

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Spring and All the Rest

Spring and All by William Carlos William was a groundbreaking work that is typically described as a manifesto to the imagination. Containing alternating sections of prose and poetry, Williams maintains the idea of the capability for imagination to transform a … Continue reading

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Day at the College of Charleston

Not less because from Georgia I ascended The Charleston day through what you called The balmiest air, not less was I myself.   What was the laughter ringing in the halls? What were the oak trees that crept before my … Continue reading

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Understanding Marianne Moore’s Sea: As Seen in “The Fish”

In Jerrald Ranta’s article, “Marianne Moore’s Sea and the Sentence,” Moore’s “sea-poems” are broken down both formally and in terms of content. Ranta proposes, “Marianne Moore’s poetic depiction of the sea offers special challenges to her readers”(245). She describes the … Continue reading

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Meanwhile, in 1912…

Lover of Picasso and other cubist painters, twentieth-century poet, Gertrude Stein, sought to “rediscover what lies behind nouns” (Ramazani 177). This desire heavily resonates in her poetry, including “A carafe, that is a blind glass.“Never before had a carafe, a … Continue reading

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The Faltering Voice of Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was a highly influential English poet who was deeply influenced by the great poets of the Romantic era, such as William Wordsworth. Hardy did not begin as a poet and trained as an arcitect in Dorchester before moving to … Continue reading

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