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Amerikanische Kultur

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Emily Dickinson: Because I Could Not Stop for Death Because I could not stop for Death - He kindly stopped for me - The Carriage held but just Ourselves - And Immortality. We slowly drove - He knew no haste, And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For his Civility - We passed the School, where Children strove, At Recess - in the Ring - We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain - We passed the Setting Sun - Or rather - He passed Us - The Dews drew quivering and chill - For only Gossamer, my Gown - My Tippet - only Tulle - We passed before a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground - The Roof was scarcely visible - The Cornice - in the Ground. Since then - 'tis Centuries - and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses Heads Were toward Eternity - mit Übersetzung: http://myweb.dal.ca/waue/Trans/Dickinson-Death.html

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William Carlos Williams: The Red Wheel-Barrow so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens http://www.ottosell.de/wcw.htm

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Allan Ginsberg: Howl I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machin- ery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz, who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tene- ment roofs illuminated, who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war, who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull, who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burn- ing their money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through the wall, (...) http://sprayberry.tripod.com/poems/howl.txt

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John Ashbery - Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as though to protect What it advertises. A few leaded panes, old beams, Fur, pleated muslin, a coral ring run together In a movement supporting the face, which swims Toward and away like the hand Except that it is in repose. It is what is Sequestered. Vasari says, "Francesco one day set himself To take his own portrait, looking at himself from that purpose In a convex mirror, such as is used by barbers . . . He accordingly caused a ball of wood to be made By a turner, and having divided it in half and Brought it to the size of the mirror, he set himself With great art to copy all that he saw in the glass," Chiefly his reflection, of which the portrait Is the reflection, of which the portrait Is the reflection once removed. (...) http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/self-portrait-in-a-convex-mirror/

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