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Category Archives: Critical
“The Convergence of the Twain”: Too Soon
Thomas Hardy’s poetic response to the 1912 Titanic disaster, “The Convergence of the Twain,” takes a contentious approach to the artistic treatment of a traumatic event—an approach the scholar Emerson Brown believes may warrant doubts of Hardy’s moral character. Brown … Continue reading
A Symbol of Love in Eliot’s “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
In an article published in The Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, John Hakac argues that the yellow fog in the first section of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a symbol for love itself, and … Continue reading
Society’s Imperfect Love Song: T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
In T. S. Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, society’s high standards of how one should be is the burden that is being expressed. Nathan A. Cervo’s article, “Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” delves … Continue reading
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Running from desire in Yeats’s ” The Lake Isle of Innisfree
When readers look at the early poem by William Butler Yeats entitled “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”, at first glance what is seen us a poem about a retreat. Inissfree is painted as a spot where he can go back … Continue reading
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Tell the Truth, but Not the Whole Truth…
Farnoosh Fathi, in an article titled ““Tell all the truth but tell it slant -”: Dickinson’s Poetics of Indirection in Contemporary Poetry,” uses Emily Dickinson’s poem “Tell all the truth” (#1129) to analyze two contemporary poets in their use of … Continue reading
Connecting the Individual and the Group: The Implications of Physical Arrangement in Whitman’s “Song of Myself”
In his article, Hair, Feet, Body and Connectedness in “Song of Myself”, Taylor Hagood1 examines Walt Whitman’s ideas of individuality and democracy throughout his poem Song of Myself. Hagood argues that Whitman “positions the individual as the predominant vehicle and … Continue reading
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