Iraqi Arab poet Nazik al-Mala'ika is a popular figure in Arab literature not just because of his use of creative, experimental poetry. She has also been known for her systematic critiques and her ideas about the artistic, linguistic and intellectual issues regarding modern Arabic literature. However, it is unfortunate that her translated poems are often those which reflect her sadness, pessimism and confusion. It must be noted that some of her poems are patriotic, optimistic and defiant.
Naomi Shihab Nye writes the kind of clear, sharp, telling poetry that gets people named poet laureate. Her poems are accessible and understandable the touching ones, the funny ones, the wrenching ones -- all the ones. However, she probably won't be poet laureate, not in the United States, or in Texas, where she lives, because of her "dangerous poems" -- the Palestinian ones.
...I think of it as noisy confusion," she said, which isn't her style at all. "That's...
Yet her reputation was also bad, as the Literary Digest noted: "Few poets in American letters made so sudden and sensational a success as she did with her initial volume, 'Poems of Passion,' and most persons to whom such luck befell would not have had the staying power to pass through nearly a generation of more or less kindly treatment as a joke" ("Current Poetry" 38) . Since the advent of modernism, her work has survived as a negative - a ghostly reference point for moderns from Harriet Monroe to S. J. Perelman, marking what American poetry is not or what it should not be. [...] she marked the shift from Judeo-Christian morality to marketplace amorality, a change that affected the implied function of popular poetry because, instead of acting as moral exemplars, poems were now expect...
... Robert (I will use first names to avoid confusion) misreads Ella. But Ella doggedly corrects him, as...
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...The book's 21 poems make up a series of reflections on the poet's rela... resulting in a momentary stay against confusion, as Frost put it. The poems in "Anxious Music" are...
Two roads diverged in a yetlow wood," [Robert Frost]'s famous poem begins. [Jay Parini] interjected to explain that many of Frost's poems "are about the process of being in the goddamned woods." It is amid the confusion and myopia figuratively represented in "The Road Not Taken" that choices must be made, Parini noted. "We're always in the woods," he told the class. "If you're a teen, you're especially in the woods.
For Thomas, God was a deus absconditus, a God who had not only hidden himself from men, but a God who could only be known through the presence of His absence, His absent "presence" - an absence and, therefore, by default, a "presence" that, for Thomas, was as long-standing as the history of Christianity, an absent presence that was a constant theme throughout his poetry, as it no doubt was in his life.\n It is not surprising, however, to see why Thomas was drawn to Jeffers and to this poem, and why he chose to include this particular poem in his anthology.
... they took in their lives, and in their poems, and they could be contentious in doing so. They w... a spate of commentary and considerable confusion - pantheistically as the "recognition of [a] trans...
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... would end with nothing but a cloud of confusion in her sinuses and one of her daylong migraines. H... the wine at Cicarlau, and sent metaphysical poems to the Poetry and the Unemployed Festival in Targu...
Ashbery's wry, introspective aestheticism and Rich's fierce moral and political urgency define polar extremes in contemporary poetry. What might have been a thoroughly conventional pastoral love lyric takes on a beguiling waywardness through a series of subtle touches, starting with the title, whose slippery qualifier "Some" marks the beginning of Ashbery's lifelong love affair with the pleasures of indeterminacy. Of these, "The Prisoners" bears special comparison with "Some Trees": Enclosed in this disturbing mutual wood, Wounded alike by thorns of the same tree, We seek in hopeless war each others' blood Though suffering in one identity.
...Ashbery published several poems in the Advocate, including a skillful Auden pastic... water: "Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.") In place of Frost's pastoral eloquence and that...
[Janet Holmes]' use of word play, her awareness of sound and her forays into the nascent and wide-open dialect of text-messaging are the leaven that lightens her potentially weighty subject matter. For example, in the poem "Lake," the phrase "point of view" echoes from "love you" to "if you," revealing the music of spoken language, as well as its potential for distortion. "Glassicaglia" (formed from "passacaglia," the Baroque dance, and the Biblical quote, "through a glass darkly") exemplifies Holmes' ample ability to play with hybrid and fragmented words. The recurring, shifting significance of the letter E (as in E-mail, Eros, Eurydice, etc.), as well as the works' varied voices and dialogic forms, give evidence of a poet skilled in the medium and implication of her craft.
FACE VALUE. Poems by Boise State professor explore intimacy, technol... pages, which initially caused me some confusion as to where poems ended. Issues of layout aside, h...
Lulu Hawkes only recently discovered the power of her voice. She knew she had ideas and emotions to share. She had been crafting them into poems reflecting her African heritage and interest in social and political issues since she was an eighth- grader.
...Interrupted by the cocky confusion of a Caucasian. "If you don't speak English,. you ...
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