The Poetic Idiom of Hart Crane: A Developmental Study of Three Poems

Abstract

Crane has often been accused of excessive obscurity, a problem which I intend to qualify, analyze and disprove in three of his best poems. More specifically Crane has been charged with creating intentional ambiguity through his personal poetic idiom. It is my conviction that the obscurity encountered in the reading of Crane's poems is a method of transcending certain limitations inherent in the English language itself.