Category Archives: Critical

Haskell Springer, in his 1967 essay, “The Poetics of E.E. Cummings” (South Atlantic Bulletin), argues that Cummings is not revolutionizing subject matter in poetry, mostly running the gamut–sex, scathing critiques of society including science, philosophy, and theology, the idiocy of … Continue reading →

Marianne Moore While studying Marianne Moore’s poetry, it is often more effective to focus on the symbolism reflected in her poetry in order to apprehend the meanings.  Jerrald Ranta’s essay entitled “Marianne Moore’s Sea and the Sentence,” agrees that when … Continue reading →

Wilfred Owen’s poetry resonates with readers for depicting the dark actualities of war and its effect on soldiers and their loved ones. While his images are routinely morbid and somewhat disturbing, they are neatly juxtaposed with a sense of romanticism … Continue reading →

            In Daniel Pigg’s “Owen’s ‘Disabled’” he analyzes the impact Owen’s war participation had on his poetry. These experiences lead Owen to distancing himself from society and elicited images of estrangement. The author points to the … Continue reading →

  Randolph Chilton and Carol Gilbertson, both college professors whom are considered to be top Ezra Pound researchers, published the article “Pound’s “‘Metro’ Hokku”: The Evolution of an Image” in an attempt to understand the concise poem’s place within the … Continue reading →

In the article “Pound’s ‘Metro’ Hokku: The Evolution of an Image,”  Chilton Randolph and Carol Gilbertson argue for the subtle importance of Pound’s choice of punctuation in “In a Station of the Metro” in the context of Pound’s Imagiste and Vorticist … Continue reading →

In an article by Baron Wormser entitled “Robert Frost and the Drama of Encounter,” Wormser points out how “Frost prefers to present the situation, which is to say the drama of opposition or indifference” (Wormser). What he means by this … Continue reading →

Sumanyu Satpathy analyzes Ezra Pound’s In a Station of the Metro along side W.B. Yeats’ poem The Two Trees in his essay “’Concealing the debt’: A note on Ezra Pound’s ‘In a Station of the Metro’”. Satpathy argues that Pound … Continue reading →

A Brief and Critical  Look at “THE CONVERGENCE OF THE TWAIN: HARDY’S ALTERATION OF PLATO’S PARABLE”  by Ian Ousby In his essay “The Convergence of the Twain: Hardy’s Alteration of Plato’s Parable,” Ian Ousby establishes a paradigm in Hardy’s poem … Continue reading →