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Puzzling Over Pound: February 2011
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My attempts to make sense of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. Monday, February 28, 2011. Tennyson's Poetry is Music to My Ears! I first encountered Alfred Lord Tennyson last fall when my kind of embarrassing family band, 3 Skuzins and a Funkle, learned a rendition of his poem "Crossing the Bar.". PS I thought it would be fun to let you listen to our version of “Crossing the Bar” because I believe poetry can absolutely be enjoyed as music. Sunday, February 20, 2011. Poem for a Hurting World. Making Sense o...
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Too New to Handle?: March 2011
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Too New to Handle? A blog I'll be maintaining for the Goshen College Engl 210: Modern and Contemporary Poetry class, in which I tackle the complexities of works that can at times seem too new to handle. Sporadic ramblings and reflections may or may not ensue. Wednesday, March 30, 2011. GC Waldrep and "Battery Smith-Guthrie". Battery Smith-Guthrie" (link to Google Book; the poem can be read in its entirety in the preview). I just finished reading the better part of G.C. Waldrep's Disclamor,. Strand seemed...
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Puzzling Over Pound: Wole Soyinka: An Author and Advocate
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My attempts to make sense of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. Tuesday, April 26, 2011. Wole Soyinka: An Author and Advocate. Here I invite you to explore with me the life of poet, playright, and novelist Wole Soyinka, and how he responded to apartheid in Nigeria with POETRY! I've done most of the work for you, and compiled it into a medium-sized paper.). Abou-bakr, Randa. "The Political Prisoner as Antihero: The Prison Poetry of Wole Soyinka and 'Ahmad Fu'ad Nigm." Comparative Literature Studies 4...Civil...
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Too New to Handle?: Concept or construction?
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Too New to Handle? A blog I'll be maintaining for the Goshen College Engl 210: Modern and Contemporary Poetry class, in which I tackle the complexities of works that can at times seem too new to handle. Sporadic ramblings and reflections may or may not ensue. Thursday, April 7, 2011. Fair warning: those "sporadic ramblings" I allude to in the blog header? Here they come.). What makes it "good" or respectable or legitimate? I know that when I first approached Hejinian's My Life,. I did so before doing bac...
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Puzzling Over Pound: April 2011
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My attempts to make sense of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. Wednesday, April 27, 2011. Why We Read. Poetry. People come in many colors, shapes, and sizes. They have adapted to radically different climates, unique political situations, and clashing worldviews. Therefore, it is always startling when some incident comes along and reveals that we are not so different after all. He expressed concern about the way some poets mask their messages “through a language that deliberately confuses and blurs me...
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Puzzling Over Pound: Poetry Inspired by the Mennonite Experience
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My attempts to make sense of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. Tuesday, April 26, 2011. Poetry Inspired by the Mennonite Experience. After reading the compelling and poignant poems in A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry. I have written three poems of my own that in one way or another tie into my own experience growing up in the Mennonite faith. Enjoy! What I Learned from My High School Choir Director. After a poem by Julia Kasdorf. I learned from my high school choir director how to laugh. Will never le...
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The Poetry Party: What Is Poetry?
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An exploration of modern and contemporary poetry. Tuesday, April 26, 2011. At long last I am posting my final paper for ENGL 210. It has been a wild ride. Such a historic and diverse art as poetry often shuns definition. With so many subjects addressed and styles used over time, it is imprudent to attempt to constrain the meaning of poetry with broad and overarching rules of what it must be. As illustrated by the numerous poetic revolutions over time, poetry is an art that continually changes. While obvi...
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The Poetry Party: Lyn Hejinian - My Life
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An exploration of modern and contemporary poetry. Sunday, April 10, 2011. Lyn Hejinian - My Life. The most recent work we've been assigned in English 210 is My Life. By Lyn Hejinian. It is an autobiographical work of prose that abstractly describes Hejinian's life. Described on the back cover of the book as "a poetic autobiography, a personal narrative, a woman's fiction, and an ongoing dialogue with the poet and her experience," My Life. Often scattered and similar to the style of My Life. I agree with ...
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Puzzling Over Pound: Sonar Comes from Airbags
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My attempts to make sense of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. Sunday, April 10, 2011. Sonar Comes from Airbags. Last week I learned about N 7 poems, which hijack poems that have already been written and replace each noun with the seventh noun following it in the dictionary. For example, "wood" becomes "word" and "sigh" becomes "sigmoidoscope"(which, for future reference, is an instrument inserted in people's rectums to look around and inspect, diagnose, etc! Two robbers diverged in a yellow word,. Somewhe...
