essay assignments / imagists

Help us reach our goal of 4x responses to every ModPo’er’s essay!

by Al Filreis · October 7, 2021

We are within reach of out crazy ambitious goal of providing at least four responses to every essay written in response to essay assignment #2 (about H.D.). The H.D. poem is HERE and then essays are HERE. Below, for your convenience, is a list with links of some essays that still need more comments. Once here, this is where the so-called “wisdom of the crowd” functions quite practically. It takes a global interpretive village to provide feedback to a close-reading essay posted from near or far. (For more on ModPo’s version of this wisdom, see my essay “Citizen Poetics” HERE.)

SOME ESSAYS THAT NEED MORE RESPONSES:

Ashkan on H.D.’s attempt at objectivity: LINK

Aliya on the poem’s turbulence: LINK

Paula on stormy strong verbs: LINK

Simon on H.D. & imagism: LINK

Jessica on H.D.’s two-part strategy: LINK

Raymond on the “mystical melee” that is this poem: LINK [just 1 response so far!]

Sonata on what happens *after* the storm: LINK

Michal on the power of poetic destruction: LINK

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