Category Archives: Creative

“Beelzebub’s Scaled Demon”   The pet endless with scale and skeleton   As if some troubled aristocratic Evil had kneaded and ground the beginning and end of Scheme into a heap of muscle   An epitome of skilled bones unwinged … Continue reading →

A day that was to be a day filled with ice with cold with snow, turned out to be another day of sun of shine of a sky a glow. I chose to imitate the style of E.E. comings because … Continue reading →

I used “The Snow Man” by Wallace Stevens for my imitation poem. I wanted to capture the physical imagery that is present in his poems. I was curious to see if the winter imagery and its sense of isolation would … Continue reading →

In this imitation of Carl Sandburg’s poem “Subway” I attempted to match his form, punctuation, and syllable count.  The original poem has a message that is both concise and precise.  With just six short lines Sandburg portrays the emotion of … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →