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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Karen L. Kilcup: On "Design" | Robert Frost | Design | Poem Criticism | Death; Darkness; Appall |
Brad Gooch: On "A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island" | Frank O'Hara | A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island | Poem Criticism | Koch; anthology; Mayakovsky; conversation; Death; prophetic |
Kevin Stein on: "A Step Away From Them" | Frank O'Hara | A Step Away From Them | Poem Criticism | imagery; time; restrictions; Death; safety |
Kevin Stein: On "The Day Lady Died" | Frank O'Hara | The Day Lady Died | Poem Criticism | Holiday; jazz; music; Death; mourning; excitement; simplicity; influences |
Frank O'Hara's: A Step Away From Them | Poem Criticism | Negro; Coca-Cola; radiance; New York; cab; Puerto Ricans; Death; poignant; earth; Life | ||
Marjorie Perloff: On "The Asians Dying" | W. S. Merwin | The Asians Dying | Poem Criticism | memory; rain; eyes; Death; bodies; colors; radical construct; subversive construct; modernity |
Edward Brunner: On "Sun and Rain" | W. S. Merwin | Sun And Rain | Poem Criticism | Caesura; Verse; experience; Turns; Prose; Syntax; form; strength; Death; Gift; Prepositional Phrases; Active Statements; memory; Sorrow |
Marjorie Perloff: On "For The Anniversary of My Death" | W. S. Merwin | For the Anniversary of My Death | Poem Criticism | Anniversary; Death; undecidable; stanzaic; eternity; bowing; mockery; abstract; elegant |
Edward Brunner on "The Asians Dying" | W. S. Merwin | The Asians Dying | Poem Criticism | Death; asians; Irony; animals; possessors |
Thomas H. Johnson: On 258 ("There's a certain Slant of light") | Emily Dickinson | 258 (There's a certain Slant of light,) | Poem Criticism | Religion; Sensory; Death; Mood; Light; imagery; Spiritual |
Caroline Rogue: 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; death bed; meaning of the fly; assumptions |
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 |
Daniel Tiffany: On "In a Station of the Metro" | Ezra Pound | In a Station of the Metro | Poem Criticism | Death; Imagism; excision |