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MADNESS INTERLUDE: NEW SCARRIET POEM
I LIKE IT WHEN I SLEEP I like it when I sleep, A dreamy paradise of rest, It blocks out all— Including all I detest. Indifference is sought By those who would otherwise weep. Gold can’t purchase love....
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SEX AND ILLNESS: FREUDIAN ROMANTICISM
The beautiful Robert Burns wrote love songs. He battles homely Auden in the North. W.H. Auden takes on Bobby Burns as the 2013 Scarriet Poetry March Madness Tournament rolls on. Auden, a 20th century...
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‘WE ARE CHEMICAL THROUGH AND THROUGH” SOUTH BRACKET ACTION (PLUS NORTH RESULTS)
Intoxication in Romanticism is joyful or insightful, not depressing as in this Degas painting Moving to Romantic Poetry Madness South action, Keats and his Nightingale, no. 1 seed, match up against...
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TONY HOAGLAND, NEO-ROMANTIC, BATTLES OVID, PRE-ROMANTIC!
Scene from Ovid’s Amores Tony Hoagland, fresh off a 2013 AWP panel in which we advocated soul, wisdom, and humanity, saying poetry today had lost its way in the halls of academia to fakery and...
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JOHN BETJEMEN’S “A SUBALTERN’S LOVE SONG:” THE ATHLETIC PRUFROCK?
A great matchup in the South: the English 20th century formalist, neo-romantic poet John Betjemen (seeded 6th) against Elizabeth Barrett, (seeded 11th) and her exciting poem about the god Pan! We...
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HERE ARE THE SOUTH WINNERS!
Andrew Marvell, best known for “To His Coy Mistress,” is becoming increasingly known for his delightful 17th century poem, “The Garden,” a template for Shelley and Keats composed 200 years prior, with...
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BOY V. PROF! SHELLEY AND MATTHEW ARNOLD CLASH IN THE WEST!
We all know “The Cloud” by Shelley, and “Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold are classics. Both poems seek a redemptive consistency amidst change and fear, and it would be safe to say this is the chief...
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A TUNEFUL MELANCHOLY, A NEW SCARRIET POEM
A tuneful melancholy Whispers in my ear! I wish for music, But more, that you were here! A tuneful melancholy Teases my soul! A wine for the tongue That escapes the bowl! A tuneful melancholy Has me...
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THE WEST, THE WEST…JOHNNY DRYDEN V. DYLAN THOMAS, AND YEATS BATTLES TENNYSON
A funny thing happens when poems gather for battle: the superficial aspects of song take on a new prominence; the mind cannot take in all the “nuances” of “poetry,” and so, as poems eager for a crown...
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EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY DANCES WITH ALEXANDER POPE
The woman is quicker to be annoyed by the slightest thing and this is a great advantage when it comes to composing poetry. The man will sweep problems under the rug or soothe all worry by announcing...
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THE POEM AS EROTIC DOCUMENT: SEXTUS PROPERTIUS AND D.H. LAWRENCE
Did Sextus Propertius (Rome, 55 BC) invent Western romantic love? Properitus is one of the first to write gendered opposition poem sequences to one maddening beloved (Cynthia) a trope repeated...
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CHARLES D’ORLEANS AND STEPHEN SPENDER, 500 YEARS APART, BATTLE IN THE WEST
Stephen Spender between Auden and Isherwood: the Truly Great? The two poems in today’s contest are what certain petulant members of today’s avant-garde might call Quietist—in the extreme. The...
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NEW SCARRIET POEM
AFTER WEEPING UPON SEEING BY CHANCE A PICTURE OF THE 8 YEAR OLD VICTIM—APRIL 17, 2013 Work, strive, hope, succeed, believe So you can live and you, too, can grieve. Up at dawn, read, learn all the...
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POEMS OF SCARY DEPTH: BILLY COLLINS SEEKS TO ADVANCE PAST LORD BYRON
Byron: hated by husbands and modern poets. Can Billy Collins match up with him? The chief objection to the poet from the typical sports watching lay person is that the poet ‘makes shit up.’ Yup, the...
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THE GREY SEA VS. THE LINDEN TREE
Robert Browning joins his wife in this tournament—Elizabeth Barrett advanced in her Round One contest—as a bridge between Romanticism and Modernism: one foot in each, and Barrett, a well-known poet...
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FIRST ROUND ACTION MOVES TO THE EAST AS WE REVIEW THE WINNERS
Last year’s Scarriet March Madness Tournament Champion, Ben Mazer: Should S.T. Coleridge be afraid? First Round play in Scarriet’s Romanticism, Old and New, Madness Tournament East Bracket awaits:...
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THE TITANS OF LUXURIOUS SOUND: POE V. SWINBURNE!
Algernon Swinburne: nominated for a Nobel eight times. His aristocratic, maternal grandfather had 17 children When the world moulders away and the ruins of the past become beautiful, falling down in...
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OLD GREAT POETRY: MARLOWE V. HOUSMAN
Instead of dismissing old great poetry as old, which is the default reaction of many a modernist and post-modernist, it might profit the next generation, and the practice and appreciation of poetry in...
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IS T.S. ELIOT ROMANTIC ENOUGH TO WIN THIS TOURNAMENT?
T.S. Eliot: Who the hell was this guy, really? What the hell was Modernism, really? The way in certain parts of the country summer arrives in a single moment after the vagueries of spring’s warm...
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MORE FIRST ROUND “ROMANTIC” MADNESS IN THE EAST: SHAKESPEARE V. DOWSON
The tragic Ernest Dowson thinking: Can I really win this thing? Genius finds the singularity that is universally true in that which the ordinary mind thinks is a mere particular. The singularity is...
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