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As hard-boiled and unliterary as Dan Brown is... I don't think we should castigate the Canadians for this list for several reasons. First, there are a lot of superb masterpieces on the list, such as...

I agree with Blank Verse about the first line. "There had been a" in the first line could, perhaps, use some changing. It begins with four abstract words and an auxiliary construction.

But...

Can't find anything to criticize. It works.
My favorite phrase was "this eclipsed world." Liked that. :)

Overall, this is a very effective poem. I think much of the language/imagery/expressions here are quite fresh and effective.

Personally, I think the poem might--perhaps--benefit from lessening the...

I would like to make it clear that I don't actually think there is anything wrong with rhyme. The poem is just tongue-in-cheek.

AuntShecky: great points. Maybe the reason why English has less...

So there you have it: modernism and post-modernism.

Just to recapitulate, modernism originally had much to do with Freud and his cynical theories which explained all human behavior in terms of the...

As others have said, there's a lot of great potential here. Personally, I feel strongly that the longer treatment of this topic would work better than the pithy version.

The most effective portion...

I agree with B/V that the poem could be condensed, since most here agree with the thesis and after a few stanzas you get the idea.

Constructive criticism warmly welcomed. My goal here is to improve as a poet, so fire away! (Notice: this poem is possessed of a bit of metrical wierdness, which I am aware of)
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Twilight? ......What's Twilight? Isn't that a book about some cannibal guy named Hannibal? I think it's called... Twilight of the Lambs, or something like that.;)

OK: postmodernism, not modernism, is all about deconstructing so-called "meta-narratives." Postmodernism, philosophically, is basically an idea that says people "construct" language and "construct"...

Some scholars believe that Dante left the image of the greyhound intentionally ambiguous, that there are several possible meanings (spiritual and political), and that there really isn't any way to...

Yikes!

Stanza three, line four has several instances of "your" which should, in this context, be "you're." But that's just grammatical technicality.

Poetically speaking, this poem is very up...

Frankenstein.

Although, I don't know if you could say revenge is its MAIN theme. But revenge certainly is one of the major themes, especially towards the end.

I enjoy the lightheartedness and drollness of your poems, Hawk. Kinda a nice change from all the serious stuff. From all the screams and weepings and despairs and nihilisms and vampyres and lord...

This is where I disagree with you. It is easy for blind persons to stub their toes and fall off cliffs—unpleasant experiences that someone with some measure of sight could better avoid. Similarly,...

I read this book a year ago. I have to say, it was not a pleasant experience. Nevertheless, after having read it and thinking about it, reflecting on it... the magnificence of this work unfolded....

I would respond, but I think we're drifting off topic...

Coberst posts the question: is the intellectual life worthwhile even if our intellectual activity is never "discovered" or appreciated. He...

My choice of words was unfortunate, because I did not mean to imply that the lives of inner-city people are petty. Nor did I mean to imply that the lives of people in developing countries are petty....

You're right in that most people are "pragmatic," in the sense that all they care about are little things like mortgages, credit card bills, career, etc. In other words, they use their intellect, but...

Actually, I have heard of Cuchalain the Valiant... and I'm not even Irish!!!! Great essays, though.

Actually, I heard about Cuchalain on a Celtic music CD... there's some sort of ancient Irish...

This is an unhappy poem.

This is an unhappy poem.

Many of the lines here are very powerful and well-written. I thought that the first two stanzas and the last stanza were particularly effective.

However, in stanza 1 I'm not sure "laden" is the...

Following Dizzydoll's interpretation, it seems to me that this signifies one person (namely, the speaker) recognizing how much another person needs silence and thus says nothing. It's an interesting...