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The last new poem meant to be published in Hart Crane's life, "The Broken Tower" (1932) has been widely acknowledged as one of the best lyrics of Crane's last years, if not his career. In keeping with the varieties and difficulties of Crane criticism, the poem has been interpreted widely--as death ode, life ode, process poem, visionary poem, poem on failed vision--but its biographical impetus out of Crane's first heterosexual affair (with Peggy Cowley, estranged wife of Malcolm Cowley) is generally undisputed. Written early in the year, the poem was rejected by '' Poetry'', and only appeared in print (in ''The New Republic'') after Crane's famous suicide by water (compare his great homosexual love-cycle "Voyages"). ==Further reading== * * * * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Broken Tower」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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