American Literature / Unit 12 AML 1112 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Crane's Poetry and Its Strangeness
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The idea
Crane's poems are short, unrhymed, aphoristic and bleak, closer to parable than to lyric, and they were unlike anything else being published in the eighteen nineties. A man asks the universe for recognition and is told the fact of his existence creates no obligation.
In practice
Parables, in no recognizable form.
Where people slip
The verse anticipates modernism by twenty years.
Your place on the trail
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