To aid direct searches for applicable criticism, all of the currently available criticism is listed below with the associated poet, poem, criticism type, and tags, as applicable. Criticism can also be filtered by these criteria using the sidebar on the right.
Title | Poet | Poem | Criticism Type | Tags |
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Christopher J. MacGowan: On "The Great Figure" | William Carlos Williams | The Great Figure | Poem Criticism | Irony; Art; Numerical Symbols; Color; Allusion |
Richard F. Dietrich: On "Space being (don't forget to remember) Curved" | E. E. Cummings | Space being (don't forget to remember) Curved | Poem Criticism | Irony; Satire; Sarcasm; Science; Images |
Katherine Kearns: On "The Road Not Taken" | Robert Frost | The Road Not Taken | Poem Criticism | Irony; Friendship; Sentimental; Tricky; Transformation; Roads; Complex |
Katherine Kearns: On "Mending Wall" | Robert Frost | Mending Wall | Poem Criticism | Determination; labor; Irony; habit; hypocrite |
Mark Richardson: On "Mending Wall" | Robert Frost | Mending Wall | Poem Criticism | Nature; Allies; Irony; competition |
George Montiero: On "After Apple-Picking" | Robert Frost | After Apple-Picking | Poem Criticism | Adam; Eve; Dreams; labor; Irony; Genesis; Religion |
Alan Williamson on: "Memories of West Street and Lepke" | Robert Lowell | Memories of West Street and Lepke | Poem Criticism | children; Irony; appearances; connections; heart; Paradox |
Memories of West Street | Memories of West Street | Poem Criticism | relativism; imagery; clothing; absorption; confident; penetration; mature; Irony; manacle; instincts; depersonalization; Identity; book-worming; confession; authority | |
Fred M. Fetrow On "A Letter from Phyllis Wheatley | Robert Hayden | Poem Criticism | psychogram; American black poet; England; Orbour Tanner; Irony; ocean crossing; westward crossing; slave; British Chimney Sweep | |
David Lehman: On "Why I Am Not a Painter" | Frank O'Hara | Why I Am Not a Painter | Poem Criticism | Natural; Surprises; Relationship; Abstract Expressionism; Anecdote; Degas; Mallarme; Parable; Mike Goldberg; Baudelaire; Rimbaud; Ezra Pound; Ashbery; Irony |
Jerald Ramsey: On "For A Coming Extinction" | W. S. Merwin | For A Coming Extinction | Poem Criticism | whale; Jonah; animal extinctions; Tone; Sarcasm; Irony; persona; despoilers; burden; imagination; evocation; The Lice; Dying |
Edward Brunner on "The Asians Dying" | W. S. Merwin | The Asians Dying | Poem Criticism | Death; asians; Irony; animals; possessors |
Charles Altieri: On "For A Coming Extinction" | W. S. Merwin | For A Coming Extinction | Poem Criticism | The Lice; metaphysical speculations; apocalyptic destruction; sacrifice; Irony |
Michael Simeone: On "Bully" | On Bully | Poem Criticism | Irony; Michael Simeone; Martin Espada; Bully; Cuba; Roosevelt; invasion; stockpiles; imperial nation | |
Phillip Ernstmeyer: On "Dust World" | Adrian C. Louis | Dust World | Poem Criticism | devastated background; absolute cynicism; diminishes; hero; self-recognition; incongruous; sexual virility; swaggering machismo; Parody; white American masculinity; Hollywood cinema; cartoonish; Clint Eastwood; Steve McQueen; Scott A. Campbell; heroism; Irony; dissimulate; colonialism |
Paula Bennett: On 465 ("I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--") | Emily Dickinson | 465 (I heard a Fly buzz——when I died——) | Poem Criticism | Death; humor; Irony; curiosity; unknown; after life |
Charles Molesworth: On "The Pangolin" | Marianne Moore | The Pangolin | Poem Criticism | Irony; Metaphore; Scientific; Morality; Animal; Artist; Syllabic; Leonardo Da Vinci |