Vol.2 (09) - Tradition: What Happened to Poetry?

Tradition: What Happened to Poetry?

Ferrick Gray

The Yellowed Page

Volume 2, Issue 9

Prefatory Remarks

This essay falls far short of any definitive answer to the question in the title. Perhaps it has missed the mark altogether. It contains my thoughts and as such, I take full responsibility for them, whether they are deemed arrogant, ignorant or acceptable. I am under no delusion that some readers will have a violent reaction to what I have written, and to a point, I understand their attitude. However, I too have been subject to similar criticism when in a position where it was inappropriate to voice my personal thoughts about poetry due to the herd mentality as to what constituted poetry.

Vol.1 (03) - Precision — John Middleton Murry

Precision

by John Middleton Murry

Notable Points from his fourth lecture — The Central Problem of Style

From — The Problem of Style, Fourth Impression, 1935, OUP

Ferrick Gray

Snippets

Volume 1, Issue 3

We would think that all writers would give their best efforts in whatever medium they choose to write. We would also note that some writers tend to overreach themselves in their attempts. Typically, this is something that will occur, especially when the writer is first starting out. In this stage there is always some imitation which is understandable.

Vol.2 (09) - “Ode to a Nightingale”

“Ode to a Nightingale”

An Analysis of John Keats’ Poem

Kenneth Daniel Wisseman

Poetically Speaking

Volume 2, Issue 9

Introduction

A friend of John Keats once wrote of John’s inspiration for this beautiful poem, “In the spring of 1819 a nightingale had built her nest near my house. Keats felt a tranquil and continual joy in her song; and one morning he took his chair from the breakfast table to the grass-plot under a plum-tree, where he sat for two or three hours. When he came into the house, I perceived he had some scraps of paper in his hand, and these he was quietly thrusting behind the books. On inquiry, I found those scraps, four or five in number, contained his poetic feeling on the song of our nightingale.”

Vol.1 (02) - Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf

Ferrick Gray

Snippets

Volume 1, Issue 2

Mrs Dalloway is often said to be Woolf’s masterpiece, and having read some of her other novels, I would have to agree that this is no overstatement. From start to finish the novel is presented as something very different to what we are used to finding in other novels, in her own.