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Category Archives: CloseRead
That Good Ole’ Southern Road
“Southern Road” by Sterling Brown consists of seven stanzas and forty lines of entertaining, sometimes hard to understand, vernacular of the Southern negro during the time of slavery. Being a slave in the South during this time was a life … Continue reading
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Tagged punctuation, repetition, Southern Road, Sterling A. Brown, word choice
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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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Der Blinde Post
In Mina Loy’s poem entitled “Der Blinde Junge,” she focuses on and delves deep into an image of a blind man playing a mouth harp on a street corner in Vienna. Although this at first appears a simple image, Loy … Continue reading
Reap Me: A Close Read of “Reapers”
The 1923 prose poem, “Reapers” by Jean Toomer possesses great technical skill in rhyme, meter, sounds, and the narrative arc. The poem is a simple picture of somebody chopping down weeds with their scythe and a machine mowing weeds down. … Continue reading
XI: Williams’s Poetic Realization of Confusion,Isolation, Separation, Liberation
In William Carlos Williams’s poem entitled “XI” in his anthology “Spring and All” he presents a picture of disparate elements, where each snippet of a seemingly objectified image is presented in concise two-line stanzas. He begins the poem with a … Continue reading
Men are More Useful
In her poem Women, Louise Bogan characterizes women by highlighting their distinctions from men. Though she does not directly compare women to men, Bogan uses the characteristics of men to describe the qualities women do not posses. In her description, … Continue reading
The Planted Seed Vs. The Weed (Close reading is a dangerous thing)
“Poem III” in Wallace Steven’s Spring and All depicts the farmer in the rain, walking through his empty fields and thinking about the upcoming harvest. (Citations with solitary numbers in the parentheses represent line numbers in the poem. Quotations with … Continue reading
A new Meaning of Spring in William Williams’s “Spring and All”
William Williams’s poem “Spring and All” entails his own image of what Spring really is. For most people, Spring time is a time that new life is born and the weather is warmer. To Williams, Spring is not an instant … Continue reading
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Tagged change, doctor, nature, Spring and All, weather, William Williams
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Common Grit in “The Wasteland”
One of the sequences I found most interesting in Eliot’s “The Wasteland” are lines 139-172 from A Game of Chess. The speaker of this section converses in a bar with a woman named Lil whose husband, Albert is returning from … Continue reading
History Told Through a Black Man’s Blood
Langston Hughes is known as one of the most renowned Harlem Renaissance writers in his day and even into the present. His poem called “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”, published in 1926, illustrates the lengthy history of blacks that are … Continue reading
