There is not one drop of silliness or playful avoidance, as he continues: "for if there is fortuity it's in the love we bear each other's differences / in race." and the photographs of murderers and narcissists and movie stars His early death only contributed to his legend and kept alive his memory until the publication of his collected writings confirmed for many what a few, mostly his friends and fellow poets, already knewthat he was an immensely gifted poet. Anyhow . . The fairly simple theme, harmony and rhythm make it a poem for the common person. . . Edwin Denby made his name as a dance critic, but his poetry was a pivotal influence on the writers and artists of the New York School. He was born Francis Russell O'Hara in Baltimore, Maryland, to Russell J. and Katherine Broderick O'Hara but moved at an early age to Grafton, a suburb of Worcester, in central Massachusetts. . a csinos pusztkon s vacsora-klubokban Artists and their creations continue to decorate the poems as comfortably as they do a sunken living room. If you continue without changing your settings, we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on this website. It's both a love poem and an ode to New York. under the sculptural necessities of lust that never falters We shall have everything we want and there'll be no more dying on the pretty plains or in the supper clubs for our symbol we'll acknowledge vulgar materialistic laughter over an insatiable sexual appetite and the streets will be filled with racing forms and the photographs of murderers and narcissists and . It is this land toward which the poem moves, concluding with almost a historical imperative:", as it must throughout the miserable, clear and willful, and he will be the wings of an extraordinary liberty[. . O'Hara's poem of 1953 is the leading example of an attempt to install the European model in contemporary writing, but as Koch writes in his review of The Collected Poems in the New Republic: "For all their use of chance and unconsciousness, Frank O'Hara's poems are unlike Surrealist poetry in that they do not programmatically favor these forces (along with dreams and violence) over the intellectual and conscious. O'Hara was drawn to both poetry and the visual arts for much of his life. It was written in the spring of 1953 but not published in book form until 1960. Go on, brothers, your way, Joyful, like a hero to victory. Schiller's "Ode to Joy" is a fairly thorough examination of the emotion of joy, its origins and its purposes. . Donald Britton died young but left behind poetry of secretive beauty. . For Frank O'Hara: Morton Feldman's Three Voices as Interpretation and Elegy Scott W. Klein Morton Feldman's 1982 Three Voices, a large concert work for solo voice that takes its textual materials from Frank O'Hara's 1957 poem 'Wind', is perhaps the most unusual musical setting of a poem in the history of the genre. Find your perfect arrangement and access a variety of transpositions so you can print and play instantly, anywhere. Request a transcript here. 27 March 1926. Francis Russell O'Hara (June 27, 1926 - July 25, 1966) was an American poet who, along with John Ashbery, James Schuyler and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of what was known as the New read more. Frank O'Hara was part of the New York School of poets and was engaged in other artistic pursuits. One of his poems, "Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed! He was that. The poems themselves do not even mention the word of the title, a cleverness the poet was well aware of. fojtott szoba-falakrl s knyvekbl duzzadnak elevenn A member of the New York School of Poets, O'Hara applied the techniques of Abstract . The Abstract Expressionist painters in New York City during the 1950s and 1960s used the title, but the poets borrowed it. March 31, 2008. 50 years ago, at the time of his death, Frank OHara was better known as museum curator. Like Joel Oppenheimer's "Billie's Blues," this poem is a tribute to the jazz singer Billie Holiday. Robert J. Bertholf, State University of New York at Buffalo. Jenny Xie reads "My Heart" by Frank O'Hara, On Seeing Larry Rivers' "Washington Crossing the Delaware" at the Museum of Modern Art, Poem [Khrushchev is coming on the right day!], Poem [The eager note on my door said, Call me,], Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia, as Perdita, Variations on Pasternak's "Mein Liebchen, Was Willst Du Noch Mehr?". He did not cultivate academic alliances or solicit editors and publishers. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Prohibition in the U.S., we discuss drinking poems over a few cocktails. Ode: Salute to the French Negro PoetsFrank O'Hara. . Marjorie Perloff discusses the poetry of Frank O'Hara. like the ways of gods with humans in the innocent combination of light This is language in love with itself. While the poems were written at about the same time, the narrative sense of the book was provided by the publisher. Browse our 106 arrangements of "Ode to Joy." Sheet music is available for Piano, Voice, Guitar and 46 others with 22 scorings and 5 notations in 26 genres. A touching friendship. He was a leading figure within the new generation of New York poets, but his talent and influence extended beyond free verse into art criticism and curatorship. Turning, I spit in the lock and the knob turns. Wikipedia, PDM. We and our partners use cookies and similar technologies to understand how you use our site and to improve your experience. John Bernard Myers, the publisher of Tibor de Nagy Editions, remembered: "I waited for these poems for three or four years; Frank could never get himself to type them up. At its worst or most excessive, his style lapses into giddiness, or what Stuart Byron calls "Queertalk." He has learned lessons from Rivers, who in a painting like The Wall (1957) or The Accident (1957) spreads derivative images--like O'Hara drawing up blocks of memories from his life--over the field of the canvas and attempts a narrative guided by spatial relationships of the images and not a linear, causal argument. On Ted Berrigans exuberant and idiosyncratic prose. Like Stevens, in "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven," O'Hara is a poet of the city who concentrates on enacting the processes of the mind as it contacts reality. They talk bringing their " Although he published more than a hundred poems in scattered magazines and in a few limited editions, there was no sizable representative collection of poems published in his lifetime. In the opening scene of Ode to Joy, a definition flashes on the screen: "Cataplexy is a neurological disorder that causes sudden attacks of muscle weakness." The definition continues on the next screen: "It is triggered by strong emotions such as anger, surprise and fear. Most readers, however, have found difficulty with it. But when a beautiful woman falls for him, he must soon decide . Ashbery writes in his introduction to the 586-page The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara (1971), patiently gathered and carefully edited by Allen: "That The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara should turn out to be a volume of the present dimension will surprise those who knew him, and would have surprised Frank even more. as evening signals nudities unknown to ancestors imaginations The screenplay by Max Werner (a longtime . . In the poem O'Hara demonstrates the process of assuming and then rejecting many possibilities of self-definition. . )," for example, was written on the Staten Island Ferry en route to a poetry reading, and his most important statement of poetics, "Personism," was written in less than an hour while Allen, who requested it, was on his way across town to pick it up. They are followed by a series of Odes (1960) and continue into his most productive years, 1959 and 1960. Ode to Joy (English) We shall have everything we want and there'll be no more dying. . or being sick to my stomach . The open arms of the second person beckon anyone in; we are at home in the delights of Frank's quotidian world. Ned Rorem also wrote the song "For Poulenc", which uses the words from O'Hara's poem "For Poulenc". From the beginning is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irn, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne. Touring the history of poetry in the YouTube age. as lava flows up and over the far-down somnolent citys abdication Freedom is where the artist begins: there are no rules, and the principles and habits are up to you. Photo portrait of American poet Frank O'Hara by Kenward Elmslie, date unknown. . The world of Frank O'Hara. Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara: Difference/ Homosexuality/ Topography by Hazel Smith Liverpool University Press, 2000, 230 pages 45.00 hardback ISBN -85323-994- . It moves through a series of choices until there are none, until the poet arrives face to face with the unchosen, the uninvited but inevitable, irreversible wonder of loss. The poem is also dedicated to "Other Births," so it is about the stages of O'Hara's life moving from one birth of consciousness to another as his poetic sensibilty renews itself in experience. cmer gyannt vulgr-materilis nevetst fogadunk el INTRODUCTION, 1997. by MARJORIE PERLOFF. Drawn from the full flood of childhood memory, it courses up through "A couple of specifically anguished days" of the present which "make me now distrust sorrow, simple sorrow / especially, like sorrow over death." Once when a publisher asked him for a manuscript he spent weeks and months combing the apartment, enthusiastic and bored at the same time, trying to assemble the poems. He must have felt the beauty and power of unconscious phenomena in surrealist poems, but what he does is to use this power and beauty to ennoble, complicate, and simplify waking actions." Thus Joe Brainard remembering his friend Frank O'Hara. In his new one-man show, the famed dancer pays tribute to Joseph Brodskys inner world. . The eager note on my door said "Call me, call when you get in!" so I quickly threw. Two other poems written at Harvard--the "Poems," beginning "At night Chinamen jump" and "The eager note on my door"--although among his earliest and having the same daring imagery as the surrealist poems, are exceptional as well for their narrative and dramatic poise. . Among the poems of this early period, "Oranges" stands out. Dated 1953. O'Hara incorporated Surrealistic and Dadaistic techniques within a colloquial speech and the flexible syntax of an engaging and democratic postmodernism. "Chez Jane" by Frank O'Hara is in the public domain. As in the early "Ode to Michael Goldberg," this poems stresses movement, quick passages through the details of life and thought, and in its spread it too engages the spatial dimensions of language. . By Dan Chiasson. "Perhaps," O'Hara continues, "the obscurity comes in here, in the relationship between the surface and the meaning, but I like it that way since the one is the other (you have to use words) and I hope the poem to be the subject, not just about it." It may even be a noble poem, like "Ode to Joy," in pleading for "no more dying," and in the hurry and demands of the city, to live with love. For over 20 years, Beethoven had been fascinated with German poet Friedrich Schiller's haunting poem An die Freude ('Ode to Joy'). The artist is brought down to his knees, not just by the prayer for creative novelty, one of the values necessary for his art, but by being reduced to a certain futility and awkwardness. But it is perhaps the most difficult of all accomplishments in art, the texture of surface appearance. lecsapni s vltoztatni irnyt mint a mszkl legyek elfoglalt vgtagokon Koch, who also had some role in the poem's composition, finds it "among the wonders of contemporary poetry," and Albert Cook, the first of the academics to recognize O'Hara, finds it "too perfect of its kind, which it has invented, to induce anyone's strictures." botlik akr egy aranyrmes hosszutvfut svd vagy libriai Frank O'Hara - St. Paul and All That. O the Polish . Given the nature of subsequent political and social events, he might have become the Juvenal of his day. This is not mentioned, yet perhaps O'Hara is signaling such an awareness by deliberately confining his admiration for Vincent to aesthetics . A slightly revised version was published in 1808, changing two lines of the first stanza and removed the last one. He missed the activity of New York and returned in 1951, working briefly as private secretary to photographer Cecil Beaton and then at the Museum of Modern Art. . t a stten hogy rleheljenek nagy vrosokra hol minden let to the spirits of other lands to make fecund my existence. They also happen to be the reason for their great success." The title of the exhibition was changed when Donald Allen used it as the title of his anthology The New American Poetry. The poem joins eating with the making of language, as a "MENU" for Berkson suggests, but there is also the connection between eating and talking: The frame of reference is immense, and there are puns and playful connections on and with French and English. From Frank O'Hara: Poet among Painters, new ed. UB Art Galleries Buffalo, New York Rights & Reproductions . . Mail.Ru His recognition came in part because of his early death, the somewhat absurd and meaningless occasion of that death (he was run down by a beach taxi on Fire Island), the prominence and loyalty of his friends, the renown of his own personality, and above all, the exuberant writings themselves. "The Day Lady Died" is about famous jazz singer Billie Holiday and the day O'Hara learns of her death. The work behind Frank OHaras seemingly light Lunch Poems, now 50 years old. Second Avenue is a poem of brilliant excess and breakneck inventiveness, beginning: "Quips and players, seeming to vend astringency off-hours, / celebrate diced excesses and sardonics, mixing pleasures, / as if proximity were staring at the margin of the plea. No more dying, We shall see the grave of love as a lovely sight and temporary His language, style, and degrees of coherence are analyzed. and the imagination itself will stagger like a tired paramour of ivory O'Hara published only two book reviews: one of poetry collections by friends Chester Kallman, Ashbery, and Edwin Denby; the other of John Rechy's City of Night, 1963. The cigarette smoke began jetting from Frank's nostrils and he went into the next room and wrote SLEEPING ON THE WING in a great clatter of keys." to press against our burning flesh not once but interminably Professional critics found O'Hara's criticism too subjective and lacking in the disciplines of critical analysis. Brainard . It is a comment on racial relations in his own America at the beginning of the Civil Rights era, an important political and social statement; he is turning his back on the "terrible western world" to invoke such anticolonialist poets as Aim Csaire. Images of movement, transportation, and the journey of life appear and reappear to establish a coherence in the collection of information about history and contemporary living in the poem. by Peter Schjeldahl. coffee) with Frank and Joe [O'Hara's roommate Joe LeSueur] at 326 East 49th Street, and the talk turned to Frank's unquenchable inspiration, in a teasing way on my part and Joe's. In response to O'Hara's 'Ode to Joy' (1957), Smith writes, 'This poem strikes . On Sundays, I stayed in my room and listened to the Sunday symphony programs." . to get out of bed. Adieu to Norman, Bon Jour to Joan and Jean-Paul, Naked 'Lunch': Behind the Scenes of Frank OHaras. But I dont think anyone will think its derivative. In "Easter" the images are fully nonreferential, or referential to their own reality alone: "The razzle dazzle maggots are summary / tattooing my simplicity on the pitiable." Moreover, they do not have Mayakovsky's large, carrying, unifying voice. Try! ode to joy (frank o' hara) - henry wolfe. Perceiving reality and attempting to remodel it in poetic form, he is perceiving and thinking spatially in blocks of information, both personal and referential, as a way to demonstrate that the acts of poetry are fully engaged in the activities of loving people, interacting with historical as well as contemporary events. He performed his administrative and curatorial duties surrounded by ceaseless conversation about art, poetry, music, and dance. Over 60 guests have chosen this tune. In the years after his intense, early relationship with O'Hara, Warren settled in Canada and . The structure is complex: images and reference build up on the surface of the poem and are not given order by generalization or summaries. Working as librarian gives him a quiet environment, but then Francesca enters the library and his life. Be embraced, Millions! . The poem walks the reader through various scenes in New York City and alludes to a wide variety of places and people. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . Life Frank O'Hara, the son of Russell Joseph O'Hara and Katherine (ne Broderick) was born on March 27, 1926, at Maryland General Hospital, Baltimore and grew up in Grafton, Massachusetts. Williams's tripartite line and his sense of measure also come into poems like "Walking," "Poem" ("I to you are you to me"), and "Trirme." There is a cinematic "sleet" of images, colored vaguely by the city's lights and shapes glimpsed from the window on Second Avenue, falling with such rapidity that the dissolves occur before the gestalt-making powers of the mind can focus them. But eventually a clue emerges of the poem's very real recipient, whose thrall over Frank outpaces . Frank's fame came to him unlooked-for." and therell be no more music but the ears in lips and no more wit As the painter Alex Katz remarked, "Frank's business was being an active intellectual." I will get off the 4:19 in Easthampton, " a last poem before I go / off my rocker," the final line-- "You'll never be mentally sober"--comments on the previous assortment of images and relates to the initial "I," rounding out the poem while adding a dimension of self-reflection and conscious control to an otherwise indulgent randomness. s gyilkosok narcisszuszok filmsztrok fnykpei Charlie has a neurological disorder in which strong emotions, especially joy, make him faint. O'Hara gives an account of the series in his more justly famous "Why I Am Not a Painter," written in 1956:". " . It tends to flow from one line to the next, placing . He was the first of the young New York Poets to write regular art criticism, serving as editorial associate for Art News, contributing reviews and occasional articles from 1953 to 1955. Homosexual love is the subject of the poems. His special subject was the encounter of the active sensibility with the world about it through extravagant fantasy, a ready wit, and a detailed realism of feelings. "The Day Lady Died" was written in 1964. O'Hara was the "poet laureate" of the Abstract Expressionist movement. --not newness, not keenness, but an absurd kneeness. and up the reeling life that it has chosen for once or all and flesh or as the legends ride their heroes through the dark to found Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) was one of the most original and influential American poets of the twentieth century. A scene of desire and of loss. Perloff calls it O'Hara's "most Byzantine and difficult poem," while even Ashbery in his introduction to the Collected Poems speaks of "the obfuscation that makes reading 'Second Avenue' such a difficult pleasure." It is one situation for a poem to refer to a painting, but it is a different act when the processes of making forms are the same in the poem and the painting, or as here, in the prints. O'Hara was at the forefront of the rise of the American avant-garde, helping elevate Abstract Expressionism, and . sam saxs new collection, Bury It, is a queer coming-of-age story. It is a voice of majesty, announcing a large theme. " Still, he resists oversimplification and insists on discontinuities. ahogy vz nyargal a hegyrl telt ajk medencbe . This last statement is, in effect, a succinct definition of nonrepresentational art--and in that sense, Second Avenue is an embodiment of the techniques of Abstract Expressionism, the series of strokes that in their totality alone completes a form. And there were no serious critical studies of his writings such as Marjorie Perloff's, Alan Feldman's, or Alice's Parker's. . . "In Memory of My Feelings" (1956) can be thought of as a transitional poem from "Second Avenue" to the "Odes." . It was not until O'Hara's Lunch Poems was published in 1965 that his reputation gained ground and not until after his sudden death that his recognition increased. Frank O'Hara (Contributor), Bill Berkson (Editor) 4.52 avg rating 90 ratings published 1967 4 editions. . . . A new collection of autobiographical pieces documents the vast scope of Anne Waldman's literary and political imagination. Died. whose self-defeating vice becomes a proper sepulcher at last . over an insatiable sexual appetite. . The largest collection of O'Hara's papers is at Harvard University. "The verbal elements," by the poet's own insistence, "are extended consciously to keep the surface of the poem high and dry, not wet, reflective and self-conscious." O'Hara writes: "It was a very funny life. In 1956 O'Hara was one of the original founders of the Poets Theater in Cambridge. Ironies and apparent contradictions abound: "you pull a pretty ring out of the pineapple [a grenade] / and blow yourself up"; everything is simultaneously "all right" and "difficult"; "wit" and "austerity" are shared; we fall sobbing to the floor with both "joy" and "freezing." Ode to Joy fails to live up to its title by attempting to wring comic mileage from a medical condition that sufferers probably don't find very funny. Ode To Joy Analysis. . He hastened the development of an art form hitherto little practiced in English (The Waste Land [1922], for example, is seldom designated as authored by both Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot) that was to become popular in the later 1960s and 1970s among younger poetsthe collaboration: O'Hara wrote poems with Ashbery, Koch, and Berkson; created "translations" from the French; produced a series of lithographs with Rivers, collages with Goldberg, comic strips with Joe Brainard, "Dialogues for Two Voices and Two Pianos" with composer Ned Rorem, and a movie with painter Alfred Leslie. As long as the succession of rapid-fire discontinuous images does not extend beyond tolerance, and, further, when there is some attempt to relate those images to an order of reality beyond themselves, O'Hara's surrealism works. 1,582 listeners. That's what his parents told him, and presumably that was the date he always celebrated as his birthday. . It was 3 a.m. of a Saturday night on Fire Island, pitch black on the beach except for the headlights of a disabled taxi . Need a transcript of this episode? Compared to him everyone else seemed a little self-conscious, abashed, or megalomaniacal." Finally he let the project drop, not because he didn't wish his work to appear, but because his thoughts were elsewhere, in the urban world of fantasy where the poems came from." a telhetetlen szexulis tvgy fl "A Step Away From Them" from 1956 has come to be known as the first of his so-called lunch poems, beginning:", " An audio recording of "The Airport" from "Four Dialogues for Two Voices and Two Pianos" has been provided below. s tollprna tollszkodik a lehanyatl-monolit alatt But such blithe joy is, however, too carefree to last. Sad news for readers of Frank O'Hara: Vincent Warren, the ballet dancer who has often been described as the true love of O'Hara's life, passed away on October 25 at the age of 79, some 50 years after O'Hara himself. Taking into consideration the time when the poems were written, it is no wonder that the author chose to describe his experience of coming out as a homosexual to his readers. . Find the key and BPM for Ode to Joy By Frank O'Hara. While employed by the Museum of Modern Art, O'Hara was the curator or cocurator of nineteen exhibitions. One need only compare the "Poem" beginning "Now the violets are all gone, the rhinoceroses, the cymbals"--the same catalogue of disparate objects--to see how, when the personality takes over, a true, more shareable lyricism flowers. Most wondered where he had found time to do it all. . Conducted at Harvard University in April 2011, and used by permission of Ron Padgett, A woman from the country meets the big city in Diane Seuss's new collection of sonnets. Ode to Joy (A Poem by Frank O'Hara) Medium. s szguld formk az utckat betltik majd Frank liked the arrangement and my 'tentative' title. Told in terms of the unconnected events of normal living, with nothing revealed ahead of time, the powerful realization of an ending is suspended until events mount up and force the realization of great loss. Tbb nem lesz hall, Kedves ideiglenes ltvny lesz a szerelem srja Multu Konuk Blasing uses models from Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida in an attempt to unlock the poem. "Butter. When the images expand out, however, and a narrative occurs, as in "A Terrestrial Cuckoo" from this same time, the results are delightfully comic: in our canoe of war-surplus gondola parts[. By Frank O'Hara. "Ode on Causality," the first poem in the book and the poem in memory of Pollock, begins with the line, "There is the sense of neurotic coherence." . The poem in the first version was composed of 9 . Two subsequent volumes prepared by Allen, one including O'Hara's earliest poems, mostly from notebooks and unpublished manuscripts among his papers and the other poems overlooked or unavailable at the time of his compilation of the complete poems, supplement the Collected Poems." Death silences the trivia. Rivers's painting Second Avenue (1958) needs to be mentioned as well." VS gets live at AWP, where Danez and Franny hosted a packed show featuring the magnificent Hanif Abdurraqib and Angel Nafis. It could be called an "action poem." . We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Names abound--"Bastille," "Easthampton," "an ugly NEW WORLD WRITING to see what the poets / of Ghana are doing these days," "Miss Stillwagon," "Verlaine"--but "hers" never is (only hinted at in the title, with her own title, Lady Day, reversed). through the heavens' grand plan. Other poems from this period concern images of a different order, including movie stars such as James Dean, both a symbol and a victim of popular culture, to whom no less than four poems are dedicated. . Home Joan Mitchell Artwork Ode to Joy (A Poem by Frank O'Hara) Ode to Joy (A Poem by Frank O'Hara) 1970 1 / Title. (This is just one of seven poems O'Hara wrote for the Russian composer's birthday over the years.) . After each movement is presented again the sound gets . The poem sets out the history of O'Hara's relationship with Berkson, but it also presents around that history remarks or observations on "the music of the fears," of "September 15 (supine, unshaven, hungover, passive, softspoken)," of routines of eating, lists of fantastic favorites, "a long history of populations," and comparisons to the poetry of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams, "pretty rose preserved in biotherm." While growing up, he was a serious music student and wished above all to be a concert pianist. But mostlyjoy." This definition is both inaccurate and incomplete. The famous German poem Ode to Joy (Ode), which was composed by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller at the age of 26 (Kirby), is a significant work during Sturm und Drang. . 00:00 / 00 . Originally published August 11, 1966. He was the subject of portraits by many of his artist friendsan indication not only of his association with painters but also of the esteem in which the artists held him. I lived in Grafton, took a ride on a bus into Worcester every day to high school, and on Saturdays took a bus and a train to Boston to study piano. Frank O'Hara's love poem "Having a Coke with You," written to his lover Vincent Warren, takes as its theme the function of aesthetics. . In. The sense of movement is here, of the flight and motion that were parts of "Second Avenue" and became parts of "Ode to Michael Goldberg ('s Birth and Other Births)," the final poem in the volume. He worked at the Museum of Modern Art and curated nineteen exhibitions. ], " unwilling to be either pertinent or bemused, but. When the first version of Joe Brainard's I Remember was published by Angel Hair Books in 1970, Frank O'Hara was already nearly four years dead. This book introduces O'Hara as a New York poet. This poem has a certain musicality about it with the way in which it is read. He attended St. John's High . After service aboard the destroyer USS Nicholas in the South Pacific during World War II, he entered Harvard (Edward Gorey was his roommate), first majoring in music but changing to English and deciding to be a writer. s nem lesz tbb zene csak szjban fl se szellemessg O'Hara's most persistent interest, however, was the image, in all its suddenness, juxtaposed with an equally unlikely image, following techniques not of Imagism but those perfected by the French Surrealists. . It was autumn. Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara was an American writer, poet and art critic. Or where the images are consistent, added to with like elements, as in "Romanze, or the Music Students," beginning:", --almost like an animated cartoon--this is the cleverness that makes O'Hara most appealing. 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