Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...extraordinary that this war has produced so many poets," said Mr. Cecil Roberts, the English poet in a recent interview for the CRIMSON on the relation between the world war and poetry. "Every young man could, if he would, write verse, but heretofore he has been ashamed of it. The poet has been considered too aesthetic and not in keeping with the spirit of healthy athleticism. But the world has changed affairs considerably. Usually before a man went into battle he wrote a semi-hysterical 'death-letter' to send away. But he also wrote a letter to himself,--a sort...
...relief from the tremendous strains of battle, many men began to write poetry. The average of this poetry was not very high, although it was above that of the works of the young poets in normal times. This fact may be attributed to the reason that, whereas the young poets had previously treated light, inconsequential subjects, in this case they were brought face to face with the fundamental questions of life and death. Men who had never written before took it up and some remarkable poets have come as a result. The war was merely an excuse for printing poetry...
...interest in the second act centers about Don Santiago, the poor harrassed governor who, trying to write an official communication to Madrid, finds that all his secretaries are employed by his wife preparing for a fireworks celebration. When finally he gets started he is continually interrupted by arriving guests, and is further discomfited by twice having to contradict an official order at the request of his persuasive wife. In the third act, much amusement is again found in the plight of the governor, who for the first time in his life presides at a bull-fight, and is quite unable...
...glad, intensely glad that you live; glad of the power which you possess; deeply heartened to have you do what our souls would have us do. As I listened to you at the Harvard Union, above all I felt your living faith in your message. I am writing you because I believe that the hardest thing which our generation must bear is the mocking, bitter fact that human nature is utterly unable to comprehend that which is distant from it, or is inevitably forgetful of that which one was reality. You will be strong, indeed if you can leave America...
...prolonged production. The only real discrepancies are to be found in Act III where Mrs. Higgens, an English Lady, the mother of an English son, has an "at home" and receives guests without serving tea. And again, what English lady--or any other-would busily continue to write notes in the presence of her guests...