r work, consider separately her poems in regular metrical
form and those in free verse. Decide which method is better suited to her
type of imagination.

3. To what extent does her inspiration come from cultural
sources--travel, literature, art, music?

4. Consider especially her presentation of "images." How far do these
seem to be derived from direct experience? Test them by your own
experience. What principles seem to determine her choice of details?
Which sense impressions--sight, sound, taste, smell, touch--does she most
frequently and successfully suggest? Note instances where her figures of
speech sharpen the imagery and others where they seem to distort it. In
what ways is the influence of Keats perceptible in her work?

5. It is worth while to make special study of the historical imagery of
the poems in _Can Grande's Castle_.

6. If you are familiar with the impressionistic method of painting, work
out an analogy between it and Miss Lowell's word pictures.

7. Study separately her varieties of free verse and polyphonic prose (cf.
her study of Paul Fort and the preface to _Can Grande's Castle_). Choose
several poems in which you think the free verse form is especially
adapted to the content and draw conclusions as to the problems of
development of this kind of verse or of its possible influence upon
regular metrical forms.

8. Use the following poem by Miss Lowell as a basis for judging her work:

FRAGMENT

What is poetry? Is it a mosaic
Of colored stones which curiously are wrought
Into a pattern? Rather glass that's taught
By patient labor any hue to take
And glowing with a sumptuous splendor, make
Beauty a thing of awe; where sunbeams caught,
Transmuted fall in sheafs of rainbows fraught
With storied meaning for religion's sake.

9. In summing up Miss Lowell's achievement, consider the different phases
of it that appear in her volumes taken in chronological order, noting the
successive influences under which she has come. In what qualities does
she stand out strikingly from other contemporary poets? Do you expect
different and more important work from her in the future?

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A Dome of Many-Colored Glass. 1912.
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed. 1914.
Six French Poets. 1915.
Men, Women and Ghosts. 1916.
Tendencies in Modern American Poetry. 1917.
Can Grande's Castle. 1918.
Pictures of the Floating World. 1919