Let’s Analyze Modernist Themes in the Poetry of Langston Hughes
In the pursuit of a university degree in English, I took a course in American Poetry. One of the questions I was begged to ask for one given assignment was this: Is Langston Hughes a modernist poet? Even at the tender, and still somewhat impressionable age of nineteen, I disliked the idea of labeling a […]
Palmer vs Levine: Poetry vs Prose
When you consider it briefly, you realize that prose writers and poetry writers are very much the same.
The Genius of Emily Dickinson and Her Idiosyncrasies
Emily Dickinson’s poetry is full of hyphens and capitalized words. Are these idiosyncrasies in her poetry a sign of her poetic genius?
Bishop VS Creeley – Maximum VS Minimum Detail in Poetry
When it comes to using detail in poetry, you perhaps cannot find more contrasting poets than Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Creeley. Bishop is very precise, and Creeley is fundamentally more vague. Creeley implies far more than he actually writes, whereas Bishop is careful not to leave anything out. Then again, what you leave out in […]