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Someone in the Kitchen I know…

Harryette Mullen’s poetry emblematizes the representation of a woman: her clothes, her accessories, and all the different facets that may compose what comes to mind when we think of femininity, or what constitutes a woman. Mullen’s prose poems thrive off … Continue reading

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Unsettling Femininity: An Imitation of Mullen’s Prose Poem

For this imitation, I wanted to capture Mullen’s ability to contrast a simple image with an unsettling or controversial topic, especially in regard to female sexuality and the effects of commercialism. In one of her poems from Trimmings, which begins “Becoming, … Continue reading

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Why I Don’t Like Puns: Response to Haryette Mullen’s Recylcopedia

When I think of puns I immediately think of a socially inept individual who knows no other way to break the ice during an event with strangers other than to suddenly exclaim, “You know what the worst part about these … Continue reading

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Frost’s Thirteenth Line

     Albert von Frank analyzes a line from Frost’s “The Gift Outright”. His focus is on the thirteenth line of the poem and he chooses to frame it as a separate entity from the rest of the poem. He … Continue reading

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Apathy in Negroes by Charles Reznikoff

The poem Negroes by Charles Reznikoff tells the tale of just one “negro,” rather than multiple as the title might suggest. However, upon reading the poem, it comes to realization that the title is plural because what happened to this … Continue reading

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’39 Big Things Lead to Big Bombs A Way

1939… marks the year World War II began.  Leading up to the start of the war, many interesting events surrounding it included the ways in which modern society responded and interacted with the Second World War. Arts & Culture Professor … Continue reading

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Countee Cullen: Should we marvel or scorn?

Cullen’s poem “Yet I Do Marvel” (ANTH 727) is an incredibly well-polished sonnet. Whether or not you feel that Cullen should have been attempting to emulate “white” forms of poetry during the Harlem Renaissance is an entirely different story, and … Continue reading

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Contrasts and Metaphors: An Imitation of Angelina Weld Grimke’s “Tenebris”

In the following poem, I endeavored to imitate Angelina Grimke’s haunting poem “Tenebris,” which contrasts light and darkness as well as blackness and whiteness through the metaphor of a tree scratching against the side of a house. The poem uses … Continue reading

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Imitation Originals

Northrop Frye said that “no poet sits down with a pencil and some blank paper and eventually produces a new poem in a special act of creation ex nihilo.” That is, no poet produces a poem completely independent of poetic … Continue reading

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Imagination Station – Final Project

William Carlos Williams is the man of the hour and Spring and All is the name of our game. Critics say, “it is necessary, in fairness and in simple courtesy, to ask what kind of poet William Carlos Wil- liams … Continue reading

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