By David Galens
This sequence is designed in particular to fulfill the curricular wishes of highschool and undergraduate students learning poetry. a brief yet information-rich reference resource, each one quantity of "Poetry for college students presents research of roughly 20 poems that lecturers and librarians have pointed out because the most often studied in literature classes.
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Thus, the concerns of Kumin as a person become central to the concerns of any twentieth-century of the world: how can we survive the autumn, the “fall,” of our misused earth? In “Grappling in the Central Blue” Kumin offers this ongoing theme in her poetry: Let us eat of the inland oyster. Let its fragrance intoxicate us into almost believing that staying on is possible again this year in benevolent blue October. Over the years some of Kumin’s best poems have concerned her children and her Demeter-like role, grieving the loss of them as they grow up, but what is most compelling is that she never accepts the impossibility of return, even if it be through magic or metaphysics.
Today: A recent public opinion poll, conducted by the People for the American Way Foundation, finds that most Americans want Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution taught in public schools and reject the notion that the evolution versus creationism debate is an “either-or” choice for educators. Only 20 percent think that evolution alone should be taught, and only 16 percent favor teaching creationism only. though she consistently pays attention to the minute details of everyday life, from human idiosyncrasies to animal behavior, to the glory of plants and vegetables, she is not just a nature poet.
There is many a passage in Rabindranath when you might call the roll, and, if one of these were present, all the rest would click their heels and answer. Here, in the supreme inspiration of Urbasi, they are transfigured into unsurpassable loveliness, which no criticism can touch. Yet, as the flawless Idea which lives in God’s presence suffers loss with the judgment of us mortals for the faulty embodiments of that perfection which we see and have made, so even on the best of the poems of his early period some shadow falls from memory of the many passages which have their accidents without their essential of inspiration.