Let’s keep adding to this list! Langston Hughes, “I, Too” Ezra Pound, Evil Godfather of Modernism, “A Pact” Allen Ginsberg, “A Supermarket in California” Sharon Olds, “Nurse Whitman” Sharon Olds. “The Language of the Brag” Larry Levis, “Whitman” (I do
The true nectar and other ramblings
Hi friends! So something I’ve been thinking about after reading Emerson is that the poet is supposed to be a “pure and simple soul in a clean and chaste body”. They’re supposed to ignore any substitutes of “the true nectar”,
And off we go…
Beyond the fact that some of my favorite human beings are in this class or teaching it (<3), I am SO excited for this class. It’s my last semester at UMW, and I really wanted to make it special. Poetry
Vanessa’s CS for January 28th
Ralph Waldo Emerson, a major contributor to the Transcendentalist Movement in American literature during the mid-1800s, deifies the role of the poet in his essays “The Poet” and “The American Scholar,” thus developing a most interesting relationship between the poet
Camerado, I give you my hand!
Both Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson believed in the written word not just as an articulation of one’s inner thoughts but, fundamentally, as a way to reach and even touch other people. They lived in an era that saw the