Author Archives: Sydney Beckner

A Fat Woman in the Attic with Nothing to Hide: Amy Lowell Slammed Against the Great Wall of Modernism

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Sydney Beckner

For my final project, I decided on taking a poet out of the dustbin of Modernism and examining her life as equated to her poetic works. Amy Lowell, a once revered and popular imagist poet who wrote along side people … Continue reading →

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Harryette Mullen Inspired Prose Poem

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Sydney Beckner

I decided on trying to imitate Mullen’s style of prose poetry while maintaining her use of clothing and material things to suggest something larger about my life. It was hard to come up with something even close to what Mullen … Continue reading →

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Maybe She’s Born With It: intentions behind “The Silken Tent”

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Sydney Beckner

Robert Frost’s poem “The Silken Tent” is in all ways very “Frost-y”, if you will. It is calm and collected, relying heavily on imagery to convey meaning. However, this sonnet, seems to offer something different. In comparison to other modernist … Continue reading →

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Sydney Beckner’s Revised and Revamped Proposal

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Sydney Beckner

After some further thought and organization, I have come to the realization that a research paper would be best suited for my endeavors with imagist poet Amy Lowell. In this essay, I aim to give a detailed timeline of Lowell’s … Continue reading →

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[I, Being Born a Woman and Pissed Off] : Imitation of Millay

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Sydney Beckner

[I, Being Born a Woman and Pissed Off] I, being born a woman and pissed off By all the needs and notions of your kind, Am urged by your close proximity to find your person distasteful, and feel a certain … Continue reading →

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Descendance: James E. Breslin on “Spring and All”

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Sydney Beckner

Focusing on the first stanza of “Spring and All”, which begins with “By the road to the contagious hospital”, James E. Breslin discusses the movement of the poem as it descends not only with images but also on a thematic … Continue reading →

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This Little Light of Mine: Wallace Stevens in the Midst of Darkness

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Sydney Beckner

Wallace Steven’s poems “The Snow Man” and “Tea at the Palaz of Hoon” each present little moments of satisfaction and palpable images for the reader to chew on. What is special about these poems is the historical context they were … Continue reading →

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Progress?: Racial Stagnancy and “The Lynching”

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Sydney Beckner

Claude McKay, a canonized and widely appreciated African American poet, is known most for his poetic commentary on racism and African American lifestyle in relation to the white world he was born into. Living in a post-civil war era, McKay … Continue reading →

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A Dark Sense: H.D. in Comparison to Others in “Some Imagist Poets”

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Sydney Beckner

H. D., renowned female imagist poet, was once featured in literary magazine Some Imagist Anthology’s special editions of Some Imagist Poets in 1917. There she stood against big time imagists like Amy Lowell, Richard Aldington, and D.H. Lawrence; each of them trying to produce the … Continue reading →

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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: Poetic Esteem vs. Humility of the Soul

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Sydney Beckner

James Weldon Johnson’s poem “O Black and Unknown Bards” is not only a popular poem of its time, but a commentary and criticism of typical “turn-of-the-century” poems and poets. “O Black and Unknown Bards” is written in iambic pentameter and … Continue reading →

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