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As the father works the rivers as an odd-job man, the son himself plies the shallows and the woods, the fairground and the campground. As he wanders, he concocts an entire vocabulary, one that mixes southern dialect and smatterings of Japanese with his own inventions. Riley works often in the prose-poem form, yet the improvised vocabulary always provides musical force. Take, for example, the.
Here is a primer on the history of poetry Features of Modernism To varying extents, writing of the Modernist period exhibits these features: 1. experimentation.
This concludes with an analysis of Christian imagery in Three Poems and Auden’s The Orators, with reference to Franz Kafka’s permutational style. The permutation-as-form is a key type of prose poetry; it has its roots in the experimental prose of Kafka and Beckett, culminating in the process of turning a public speech, a philosophical investigation or a guide book into a work of poetry.
The second attempt to analyse the poetic imagination is Wallace Stevens’ first and finest essay, The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words (1942). Stevens had proposed the establishment of a Chair in the Imagination at Harvard and this was his first attempt to persuade academics and administrators of its necessity. The project failed and, reading the essay, it is not difficult to see why. It is.
Prominent writers had praised Jones’s epic prose poem in fulsome terms, including W H Auden (whose portrait Peake also drew in the late 30s), Graham Greene (who selected Titus Groan for publication by Eyre and Spottiswoode), and Herbert Read, the theorist of surrealism and a veteran of the Great War like Jones himself, whose work Peake must have known well as a professional artist and.
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Contemporary Literature in English. STUDY. PLAY. Seamus Heaney: Glanmore Revisited 5 (Lustral Sonnet) Breaking and entering: from early on, Words that thrilled me far more than they scared me— And still did, when I came into my own Masquerade as a man of property. Even then, my first impulse was never To double-bar a door or lock a gate; And fitted blinds and curtains drawn over Seemed far.