WEEK 9: American Poetry
Poetry at Mid Century
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Poetry at mid-century reflects the modernist
period, a time in which writers experimented in form and style, individualizing
their writing without reference, in part, to the conventions of any particular
movement. Each writer developed both a style and treatment of subject
matter that found no references in past art and literature. New terms
like "expressionism," "surrealism," and "modernism" came to reflect art forms
that rejected the necessities of "realism," and in some cases, the artistic
creation became simply inexplicable, a thing with value for its own sake.
At the same time, African-American writing found new voices, growing from
the energies of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's.
Textual Readings:
Wallace Stevens
"Peter Quince at the Clavier"
"Disillusionment
of Ten O'Clock"
"The
Deat of a Soldier"
A
High-Toned Old Christian Woman"
"Of
Modern Poetry
"Final
Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"
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William Carlos Williams
"Con
Brio"
"The
Young Housewife"
"Spring
and All"
"The
Red Wheelbarrow"
"Landscape
with the Fall of Icarus"
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Marianne Moore
"To
a Steam Roller"
"The
Fish"
"Poetry"
"The
Mind is an Enchanting Thing"
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Langston Hughes
"The
Negro Speaks of Rivers"
"The
Weary Blues"
"Young
Gal Blues"
"I,
Too"
"Dream
Boogie"
"Harlem"
"On
the Road"
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Theodore Roethke
"Dolor"
"Open
House"
"Cuttings"
"I
Knew a Woman"
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Randall Jarrell
"The
Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
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Elizabeth Bishop
"A
Miracle for Breakfast"
"Fish"
"Visits
to the Elizabeths"
"The
Armadillo"
Robert Lowell
"The
Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket"
"For
the Union Dead"
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