Word: meaningless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...soul, allowing and providing for necessities, still makes its only aim union with the infinite. A poem, to be understood and appreciated, must have one central theme; in the same way life must have its one great purpose and aim or the whole is meaningless and confused...
...beauty or strength to save it. "At a House Party," by Clarence Britten is an attempt to tell one of the author's too-subtle, evanescent short stories in verse; it does not "get there" enough to make it quite worth while. Mr. Thayer's "Adieu" is graceful and meaningless; the "Thoreau" of Rollo Britten is the best verse in the paper. It says something with force and phrasing. Paul Marriet's "Crepuscule" moves those who knew him, if only by the memories it evokes...