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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Albert J. Von Frank: On "Desert Places" | Robert Frost | Desert Places | Poem Criticism | Nature; Identity; Nothingness; Paradox; Meaning; absent-spiritedness; isolation; home |
Hugh Witemeyer: On "Portrait d'une Femme" | Ezra Pound | Portrait d'une Femme | Poem Criticism | fragmented women; female archetypes; materialistic; Identity |
Susan McCabe: On "The Fish" | Elizabeth Bishop | Poem Criticism | fish; Identity; Uncertainty; Differences; Isinglass; Vision; Visualization; unity | |
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 | |
George Stavros: An Interview on "We Real Cool" | Gwendolyn Brooks | We Real Cool | Poem Criticism | colloquial rhythm; form; feeling; pretensions; Identity |
Brad Gooch: On "Thinking of James Dean" | Frank O'Hara | Thinking of James Dean | Poem Criticism | Elegy; quatrains; East of Eden; Rebel Without a Cause; John Ashbery; Identity; moral crisis; exhibitionism; sentimentality; comteporaneity; Pop element; frustrated love; tragic lyric figure; Romantics |
Jean Wagner: On "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" | Langston Hughes | The Negro Speaks of Rivers | Poem Criticism | Black History; African American; racism; American History; Idealization; Black Identity; Identity |