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Title Poet Poem Criticism Type Tags
Frank Lentricchia: On "Birches" Robert Frost Birches Poem Criticism transcendence; consciousness; youth; Nature; imagination
Leslie Wolf: On "Daffy Duck in Hollywood" John Ashbery Daffy Duck in Hollywood Poem Criticism sounds; difficult; John Donne; diction; connotation; Kooning; imagination; Harold Bloom
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
Deborah Pope: On "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers Adrienne Rich Aunt Jennifer's Tigers Poem Criticism imagination; duty; Power; passivity; women; conflict in women; impulse to freedom; gender roles; generation
Meg Boerema Gillette On "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" Adrienne Rich Aunt Jennifer's Tigers Poem Criticism Deborah Pope; Thomas B Byar; Individual; social; imagination; gender; expectation; oppressed; oppressor; oppostition; wins; rebellion; resists; personal; interdependence; parallel; syntactical; parallelism; stanza