Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments.

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Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own...

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A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an...

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential...

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential...

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To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope,...

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In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans...

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Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as...

Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect...

Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect...

In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on...

In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on...

As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.

As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.

A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of...

A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of...

Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together.

Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together.

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With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from...