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Author Archives: Patrick Walker
Striving to Imitate/Innovate
I realize now that when you write a poem in a calligram form in microsoft word and then try and copy/paste that poem into a blog post things don’t go so smoothly. Well this blog post is meant to be … Continue reading
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Poetry, 1951
In the February 1951 edition of Poetry Magazine there are numerous poems of varying quality. Some are translated works of poetry, including four poems of the French poet Apollinaire translated into English by Harry Duncan. Many of the poems written … Continue reading
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“Stevens, 2014”
The following poem is a response to Wallace Steven’s poem “Mozart, 1935.” It also incorporates Stevens’ decision to substitute religion and God with poetry and poet, hence the quote at the beginning of the response poem from the Adagia. In … Continue reading
Robinson Jeffers and the Transhuman
In his article “Violence, Violation, and the Limits of Ethics in Robinson Jeffers ‘Hurt Hawks,’” Jordan L. Green uses close reading as well a variety of sources on ethics and the literary idea of the sublime to demonstrate how, in … Continue reading
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Spring, the metro, and the east
This is a brief comparative look at Chinese, Japanese, and American Modernist Poetry in order to demonstrate the influence of China and Japan on Modernism, specifically William Carlos William’s Spring and All and Ezra Pound’s “In A Station of the … Continue reading
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Meanwhile, in 1923(land).
Arts and Culture On July thirteenth the Hollywood Sign is inaugurated in California. It originally read Hollywoodland and was erected as an advertisement for the land development known by the same name. After an extended period of dilapidation the … Continue reading
The Planted Seed Vs. The Weed (Close reading is a dangerous thing)
“Poem III” in Wallace Steven’s Spring and All depicts the farmer in the rain, walking through his empty fields and thinking about the upcoming harvest. (Citations with solitary numbers in the parentheses represent line numbers in the poem. Quotations with … Continue reading
Snow Day: Wallace Stevens drinks tea after making a snowman
Snow Day Poems on page 247 of our anthology. (2) In the Wallace Stevens poems we read for Wednesday–“The Snow Man” and “Tea at the Palaz of Hoon”–Stevens seems more successful than either Eliot or Pound in creating a sort of … Continue reading
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“Secrecy”: Safe in Anonymity
Patrick Walker The poem “Secrecy” by G.O. Warren appears in the March 1919 edition of Poetry Magazine. Judging by a quick google of G.O. Warren, he is not relevant to the current poetic canon. He is lost, despite Google’s … Continue reading
H.D.’s “Oread” and the Fragmentary Whole
R.P. Blackmur must have had Hilda Doolittle’s short poem “Oread” in mindwhen he declared her poetic style to be “cold, ‘Greek,’ fast, and enclosed” (ANTH 393). The title creates the addressee of the poem and sets up an apostrophe to … Continue reading