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Archibald MacLeish
Title: Archibald MacLeish
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 1448 | Pages: 6.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Archibald MacLeish
Still he stands
Watching the vortex widen and involve
in swirling dissolution the whole earth
and circle through the skies till swaying time
collapses, crumpling into dark the skies
-from the poem “Einstein”
INTRODUCTION
Archibald MacLeish was always a loner. Although he married he was always wondering about man’s relationship to the world. He wondered why people could not see that they were wasting the little time we have on this earth. He tried …showed first 75 words of 1448 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1448 total…this poem makes the point that a poem should be an “intimation rather than a full statement.”(Falk 41). It is also said that this poem is one of the chief doctrines of Imagism, which was a literary movement from 1910 to 1920. Imagism is supposed to create a single sharp image that evokes an emotional response. MacLeish creates the image of autumn and the night and then compares it to the beauty of the written word (MorItz.145).
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