Auden (1907-1973)`s The Sea and the Mirror raises questions about the value of art in the context of Auden`s Christian beliefs and Kierkegaard`s Christian existentialist philosophy It considers whether art has a moral responsibility or it is a play In this article I trace Auden`s view of art within the context of The Sea and the Mirror and weigh the critics` comments rega..
Through his poetry and prose, William Carlos Williams incessantly shows that his life and literature are closely related to Spanish heritage The names William and Carlos reflect his mixed bloodline of British and Spanish They lead Williams toward much more multi-faceted literary writings In a sense, Williams` Spanish half, signifying his private and covert life, plays ..
In his youth, Derek Walcott was interested in James Joyce so much that he acted the same way as Joyce`s hero, Stephen Dedalus, when a Catholic archbishop criticized his debut poem, The Voice of St Lucia Thus, the poet`s biographical experience may influence the reader`s perception of the poem as an imitation of Joyce`s novel However, despite the biographical sympathy betw..
The structurally self-reflexive poetry may hold local meanings but does not allow them to be synthesized into an overarching meaning, conceptual or perceptual it lacks any necessary integrating rule The parts are organized so that they have multiple and undeterminable relationships with each other This state or compositional principle can be described as the multiple and ..
During his lifetime, Robert Lowell was willing to publicize and poeticize his liberalism in his activities and poems, where he often identifies himself with the socially marginalized Lowell`s expression of his political stance in close association with his personal life deserves our attention, for many so-called canonical poets are politically conservative or hesitant to..
Lowell was such a confessional poet to speak about his own and familial experiences, while not so solipsistic as to hide himself from the world His impersonal personalism, which synthesizes the inclination to personalism and consciousness building of the nineteenth century with the elaborate masking techniques and objectifications of the twentieth, reaches the climax when..