Is Music: New and Selected Poems

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Generally speaking, the poems are fresh and committed to the reader in an even, conversational tone. Where fierce words are needed they are used but the chat is never disturbed from its even flow. A Girl Swinging is a short girl, hence short lines and simple language; spider webs are complex, hence long twisted sentences, accurately and minutely described; pacifists who follow a leader, are destroyed if they lose their leader — The Caterpillars demonstrates this.

Artist follows the dramatic monologue construction so favoured by Robert Browning in his many poems, but specifically, My Last Duchess. Beveridge incorporates into the poem a deep psychological interest. Her focus appears at first sight to dwell on externality, especially as observed in visual imagery, but an observant reader should not miss her focus on the inward drama of the characters:.

There is motion in this poem. As always Nature is a powerful player. It is a source of transfiguration and redemption.

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There is evidence of an attempt to make interiority more tangible. In meeting the challenge of writing a good poem she attempts to replace the meditative with dramatic polarities.

A good example occurs in An Artist Speaks to his Model:. But Elise lives by endless palisades, by fierce pigments i. Ordinary mortals, like the artist himself, live in rooms i.

The poet is compelled to examine the intersection of human characters and places with the world of Nature. Beveridge writes true to the maxim of Ezra Pound: As an example I would instance The Courtesan who recognizes a dissociation, and therefore a condemnation, by the courtesan herself of her way of living.

Men lose their individuality in her stark portraits. I think of a pen and ink drawing. She dismisses one fellow with. With a convrsational tone, she condemns the way she lives, having sent away the only one she cared for because she was envious of his preoccupation with guinea fowl.

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How to love bats is an ironic comment on self-appointed experts. I was drawn in by Invitation , a poem where Beveridge sets up an extended image of cooking oil as a motor carrying the kitchen which sets the course. The kitchen is the carrier of the imagery. Note the phrases feeding off each other:. Sign In Set Up Account. You will be directed to acponline. Open Athens Shibboleth Log In. Subscribe to Annals of Internal Medicine.

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From Accidental Grace onwards we have the mature Beveridge. The poems here are typically constructed from finely described details, each tapped into place with a metaphor or simile, either stated or implied. Some poems involve a minimal narrative a walk by a lake, instance ; others are a series of injunctions, painstakingly elaborated.

With such technique, it's important to remember that Beveridge also cites Ezra Pound in her introductory note: In poems such as Man Washing on a Railway Platform Outside Delhi and Bahadour Beveridge subtly but clearly shows how the ill-treated subject can still retain his or her dignity. A fine example is in the closing lines of Bahadour where the young, hard-pressed Nepali delivery boy is able to seize a few minutes late in the day to fly his kite: Comparable moments occur in Beveridge's more recent, five-poem sequence, Camel.

Here the poet begins with an affectionate selection of the thousand-plus names that Arabic has for "camel".