Recent Poetry Articles - End of October
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Posted by Linda Sue Grimes Oct 31, 2008 |
The following articles are the most recent feature articles for Poetry. Two of them have earned the Editor’s Choice Award:
Gwynn's Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins
R. S. Gwynn's poem conflates the Snow White fable, the seven deadly sins, biblical allusion, and a stereotype of Catholic sensibility to dramatize an unholy marriage.
Yogananda's "'Tis All Unknown"
The speaker in Yogananda's "'Tis All Unknown" likens the dawning of day to the unfolding of rosebud petals, hinting at the beauty of the opening of human consciousness.
Sonnet 87 begins a sequence in which the speaker/poet addresses his Muse, again bemoaning the fact that she sometimes seems to abandon him.
In Sylvia Plath's "Mirror," the speaker is a mirror that becomes a lake to report the aging process of a woman. This piece is one of the best poems of the 20th century.
Editor’s Choice Award: Sylvia Plath's "Metaphors" portrays a unique vision of a character obsessed with body image, specifically, the character is preoccupied with her pregnant body.
Sir Philip Sidney's "Sonnet 79"
"Astrophil" comes from the Greek for "star" and "love"; therefore, the lover in this sonnet sequence is a "starlover"; "Stella," his love object, is Latin for "star."
Former poet laureate Rita Dove offers a unique three-pronged expression of the mind and vision of an adolescent girl in her "Adolescence" poems.
Editor’s Choice Award: The theme dramatized in Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush" is the contrast between the joyous notes of a bird and the despair of the human listener.
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