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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C.K. Doreski: On "The Filling Station" | Elizabeth Bishop | Filling Station | Poem Criticism | delineate; social; cultural; feminine; voice; prissiness; flighty; diminutive; amused; disgust; alien; unctuous; teeter; domestic; soil |
Anne Colewell: On "One Art" | Elizabeth Bishop | One Art | Poem Criticism | Tone; Villanelle; Duality; shan’t |
Bonnie Costello: On "Pink Dog" | Elizabeth Bishop | Pink Dog | Poem Criticism | social anxiety; physical anxiety; costume; empathy; marginality; repression; fear; troubled speaker |
Susan McCabe: On "One Art" | Elizabeth Bishop | One Art | Poem Criticism | loss; disaster; J.D. McClatchy; Freud; autobiographical; Rhyme; James Merrill; personal; mourning; Jacques Lacan; love; Lorrie Goldensohn; Villanelle; Adrienne Rich |
Stephen Yenser on "Memories of West Street and Lepke" | Robert Lowell | Memories of West Street and Lepke | Poem Criticism | Marlborough Street; Jail; New York; During Fever; isolation; Agonizing; Lepke |
Marilyn May Lombardi: On "Questions of Travel" | Elizabeth Bishop | Questions of Travel | Poem Criticism | Travel; adventurer; expedition |
Bonnie Costello: On "The Filling Station" | Elizabeth Bishop | Filling Station | Poem Criticism | Bonnie Costello; emotions; Somebody loves us all; active displacement; sardonic; begonia; diction; Image; broader sense |
C. K. Doreski: On "One Art" | Elizabeth Bishop | One Art | Poem Criticism | loss; disaster; philosophy; Struggle; chaos; order; Sestina; Villanelle |
C. K. Doreski: On "The Armadillo" | Elizabeth Bishop | The Armadillo | Poem Criticism | anger; outcry; fire; chaos; destruction; Wordsworth; Nature; environmentalism |
Grace Akers on | Poem Criticism | love; family; feminism; appreciation; observation | ||
Elizabeth Dodd on "One Art" | One Art | Poem Criticism | One Art; loss; Elegy; Villanelle; casual tone; strict form | |
Lee Edelman: On "In the Waiting Room" | Elizabeth Bishop | In the Waiting Room | Poem Criticism | Community; isolation; Individual; National Geographic; Africa; Literal; Literality; Textuality; Femininity; Patriarchy; Waiting |
Penelope Laurens: On "The Armadillo" | Elizabeth Bishop | The Armadillo | Poem Criticism | animals; balloon; distance; metrical variation; spontaneity |
David Kalstone: On "Memories of West Street and Lepke" | General Poet Criticism | West Street Jail; experiences; connections; privileged; New York City; Boston; compare | ||
Louise Glück: On "Dream Song 1" | John Berryman | Dream Song 1 | Poem Criticism | lyric; voice; noise; purpose; cross-purpose; self; firm self; point of view; fate; commentary |
Thomas Travisano: On "For the Union Dead" | Robert Lowell | For the Union Dead | Poem Criticism | loss; super-realism; visuals; Latin; relinquishment; monuments; Colonel Shaw; postmodernism; Randall Jarrell; Berryman; metamorphasis; survivors |
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 |
Helen Vendler: On "For the Union Dead" | Robert Lowell | For the Union Dead | Poem Criticism | Boston; Boston Arts Festival; Robert Gould Shaw; Augustus Saint Gaudens; Boston State House; Irish; immigrant Irish; Aquarium; Boston Common; burial; aesthetic; Massachusetts 54th Regiment; Battle of Fort Wagner |
Mutlu Konuk Blasing on "The Filling Station" | Poem Criticism | oil; dirty; greasy; taboret; automobile; doily | ||
Lowell: On"For the Dead Union" | Poem Criticism | Historical; Boston; past; present; CivilWar; AllenTate; Shaw; Memorial; ethical; comparison | ||
Steven Gould Axelrod on "Skunk Hour" | Poem Criticism | Nature; stain; sterility; ill; heiress; automobiles; steamshovels; scenery; sexuality; loveless | ||
Alan Williamson | Poem Criticism | Alan Williamson; Robert Lowell; Colonel Shaw; abstract images; bear; snake; horseshoe crab; Civil War; confederate dead | ||
Adrienne Rich: On "Negro Minstrelsy" in The Dream Songs | John Berryman | The Dream Songs | Poem Criticism | blackface dialect; persona; political; rational; negritude; nigger talk; supreme dialect |
Robert Lowell | Poem Criticism | |||
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 | |
Joel Athey on: John Berryman | John Berryman | Biographical | ||
Thomas Gardner: On "Dream Song 5" | John Berryman | Dream Song 5 | Poem Criticism | stanza; pair of lines; Crèvecoeur |
Helen Vendler on: "The Dream Songs" | John Berryman | The Dream Songs | Poem Criticism | dream; psychology; Superego; Id; Freudian; Vaudeville; Conscience |
John Berryman on "The Dream Songs" | John Berryman | Interview | ||
John Berryman Interview with John Plotz | John Berryman | Interview |