Word: poetics
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...knowledge whose impious sense of humor makes his testimony even more telling when that humor disappears for a description of the horrors of the United States air war on Vietnam. Sloyan slipped on a few lines in the first-night performance, but he never dropped his role as the poetic activist guiding an adamant but occasionally confused group of Christian radicals through the United States judicial system...
...poetic genius who originally shaped Beowulf around the monster and the Geatish champion was busy trying to blend heroism and history, pagan myth and Christian message. He had no time to empathize with the devil's henchman. So Beowulf's Grendel is beastly, God-cursed, a conventional scourge to man. Gardner's Grendel may look like a lump of earth with a hairy pelt, but (conveniently, yet convincingly) he throbs with primal rage, despair, collegiate idealism and existential inquiry. Gardner has also given him a gnawing sense of humor. "I have eaten several priests," Grendel reports. "They...
...poison; then it was well again." As usual in an Ibsen scene, opera glasses are not needed to recognize the symbolism. Tiny, armored, venomous, Ibsen was an ailing spirit whose dramas stung the 19th century's conscience and gave European theater a new seriousness. After launching into poetic tragedy (Brand, Peer Gynt), Ibsen imported social realism from the novel and invented modern prose drama (A Doll's House, Ghosts). Then he passed on to the great pagan passion plays of his old age (The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, Little Eyolf...
...understand the work much better in English. Given a point to make, Rosenzweig often runs with it as if he were a kind of Wilhelm Jennings Bryan, piling peroration on peroration in order to close all avenues of intellectual escape. But he can also, by turns, be incisive, poetic, and even now controversial. At its best, the book remains precisely what Rosenzweig intended it to be-the centerpiece of his life and of his lifelong search...
...Satchmo, will you get to Heaven?/I doubt it," said Soviet Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenlco in a poetic tribute to the late Louis Armstrong. "But if you do,/Do as you did in the past./And play./Cheer up the state of the angels." The outspoken Yevtushenko has bothered Russia's bosses for years, blessing and blaming with small regard to the Communist Party line. And he has not changed. In one part of his Armstrong's Trumpet he says, "A poet and a great jazzman are equal brothers in what they give the world." Soviet leaders, who frown...