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Whose “Red Wheelbarrow” Was it?

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Beau

In Sergio Rizzo’s evaluation of William Carlos Williams “The Red Wheelbarrow” he labels it as one of the most debated poems to come out of the modernist movement. Rizzo examines the emotional agenda behind the poem by revealing two articles … Continue reading →

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Women, Sarcasm, and Honesty

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Katie B

Although “Women” by Louise Bogan comes across as making women very inferior, it is quite noticeable that the poem is meant to be satirical.  Upon reading the poem the first time, I was somewhat taken aback and upset at the … Continue reading →

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Millay: Feminism and Social Politics

Posted on February 27, 2014 by BrittenyR

  John Timberman Newcomb’s article, titled “The Woman as Political Poet: Edna St. Vincent Millay and the Mid-Century Canon,” discusses Millay’s preoccupation toward social discourse, as well as her shift from feminist love poetry to a focus on “progressive political … Continue reading →

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“Spring and All” [By the road to the contagious hospital]

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Logan B

In Joshua Schuster’s critical analysis of William Carlos Williams, “Spring and All” [By the road to the contagious hospital], Shuster proposes that Carlos implements styles of his predecessors, such as the Futurists, Vorticists, and Dadaists. This is interpreted through the … Continue reading →

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From the Depression to WWI, and From Jazz to Swing

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Beau

Arts and culture: The smooth jazz tunes of the 1920’s begin to evolve into faster more consistent sounds labeled as swing music. A continued widespread use of the radio worldwide provided an original form of mass media. A huge variety of … Continue reading →

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1923 a Continuation of the World’s “Spring”

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Connor F

The world was still dealing with the heavy hand that came down upon it during World War I. there were many changes taking place that moved the world closer to what we see today. Everything from politics, to medicine to … Continue reading →

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A critical view of the Wasteland

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Victoria C.

After reading The Wasteland you would notice that Eliot’s main theme here is the psychological state of the twentieth century.  According to Michael Levenson, Eliot uses a distinctive, syntactic pattern in the first opening lines in the Norton Anthology: “April … Continue reading →

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Snow Day: “What is that noise?” Conversation in Eliot’s “The Waste Land”

Posted on February 16, 2014 by matthew.horton

“The Waste Land” is a fitting title for Eliot’s seminal piece, as the poem is a wilderness of allusions and footnotes; not only this, the poetry depicts the state of society as a wasteland, making the title both ambiguous and … Continue reading →

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Stevens and Subjectivity

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Ellen Butler

With “The Snow Man” Wallace Stevens presents a bleak landscape that deliberately evokes forlorn, hopeless feelings. Yet alongside the presentation of such images, Stevens offers a decidedly content, if not tranquil commentary. His opening lines “One must have a mind … Continue reading →

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Claude McKay vs. Langston Hughes

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Katie B

In comparing Langston Hughes’s poem to the poems we have read by Claude McKay so far, it is very easy to see a huge difference in not only the style of writing but the poetry’s main subject matter.  In Claude … Continue reading →

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