Inside The Poem

• Dickinson’s Uncertainty Principle: We Grow Accustomed To The Dark by Emily Dickinson
  by Jough Dempsey - 14 October 1999
  Dickinson’s Uncertainty Principle - a look at Emily Dickinson’s style through this particular poem.

• The Tyger by William Blake
  by Jough Dempsey - 17 September 1998
  An unpopular opinion concerning this poem by William Blake.

• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
  by Jough Dempsey - 24 February 1997
  A brief essay providing a simple overview of the poem.

• Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman (A Dialogue)
  by Jough Dempsey - 22 November 1999
  A dramatic dialogue between Jough and Shwuan - two friends discussing Whitman’s poem “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”

• anyone lived in a pretty how town by e.e. cummings
  by Jough Dempsey - 26 March 1999
  Cummings’s work is daunting for a reader who wants poetry to conform to certain grammatical standards, but for those who are willing to stretch the limit…

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• Dickinson’s Uncertainty Principle: We Grow Accustomed To The Dark by Emily Dickinson
• The Tyger by William Blake
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
• Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman (A Dialogue)
• anyone lived in a pretty how town by e.e. cummings

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