(1) Compare how poets are treated in “The Black Tambourine” and “Chaplinesque.” How are outcasts treated in each poem?
(2) Analyze evidence of emotional discordance in the congested images of Crane’s “Lachrymae Christi.”
(3) Assess the interplay of euphony and cacophony that dominates Crane’s “At Melville’s Tomb,” “The Dance,” and “The Tunnel.”
(4) How does Crane create pageantry in The Bridge? What role does this grand parade serve in the work?
