Colors of Life: Poems and Songs and SonnetsA.A. Knopf, 1918 - 129 pagina's |
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AMERICAN POETRY beauty blue BOBOLINK bold breast breath burning child colors CRAG EAGLE crimson dance dark death deed didst doth dreams earth Edgar Allan Poe egoism emotion essence eternal eyes feel flow forever free verse gleam hour infinite ISADORA DUNCAN laugh LEIF ERICSON liberty light limbs lips LITTLE BED lonely MAX EASTMAN meadow mind misty modern monotonous Montaigne mood moral morning motion move murmur nature never night object pale passion Plato Poe's poem poetry poets poured PREFACE primitive prose quiver rain rhyme rhythm rhythmic sacred sailor seemed shadow Shine ship silver sing soft sombre song sonnet soul Spinoza spirit stars stream sweet tender thee thing Thou dost THOUGHT OF PROTAGORAS THRUSH Thy dreams thy heart touch tranquil truth universal unto veins verbal melody vivid Walt Whitman Wang Wei wanly watch wild wind wing wonder word X RAYS yearning yellow
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Pagina 38 - RECONCILIATION WORD over all, beautiful as the sky, Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost, That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world; For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead, I look where he lies white-faced and still in the coffin — I draw near, Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.
Pagina 18 - Most writers — poets in especial — prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy — an ecstatic intuition — and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes...
Pagina 19 - The initial consideration was that of extent. If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely important effect derivable from unity of impression — for, if two sittings be required, the affairs of the world interfere, and everything like totality is at once destroyed.
Pagina 20 - My next thought concerned the choice of an impression, or effect to be conveyed : and here I may as well observe that, throughout the construction, I kept steadily in view the design of rendering the work universally appreciable. I should be carried...
Pagina 19 - I deemed not above the popular, while not below the critical, taste, I reached at once what I conceived the proper length for my intended poem — a length of about one hundred lines. It is, in fact, a hundred and eight.
Pagina 19 - Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem, per se, the circumstance — or say the necessity — which, in the first place, gave rise to the intention of composing a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste.
Pagina 19 - In general, suggestions, having arisen pell-mell, are pursued and forgotten in a similar manner. For my own part, I have neither sympathy with the repugnance alluded to, nor, at any time, the least difficulty in recalling to mind the progressive steps of any of my compositions; and, since the interest of an analysis, or...
Pagina 17 - ... the modern, the busy nineteenth century (as grandly poetic as any, only different) with steamships, railroads, factories, electric telegraphs, cylinder presses — to the thought of the solidarity of nations, the brotherhood and sisterhood of the entire earth...
Pagina 19 - I have considered a desideratum, is quite independent of any real or fancied interest in the thing analyzed, it will not be regarded as a breach of decorum on my part to show the modus operandi by which some one of my own works was put together. I select " The Raven
Pagina 15 - the time has arrived to essentially break down the barriers of form between Prose and Poetry...