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the Bridge

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a long poemHart Crane1930the poem was Crane's attempt to present an affirmative, epic version of America ; new York city's Brooklyn bridge is its central image .in his prefatory prome,  Crane describes the bridge as both 'harp and alter' which will lend a myth to God', and he returns to his affirmative vision in Atlantis' the final part of sequencehe also explores the negative as well as the positive aspects of the American experience which are symbolized by literary and hysterical figures , geographical features and place names, and technological inventionsin one of his sections , princess Pocahontas becomes a figure representing the beauty of the American landscapeMississippi is transformed into a natural force fusing history with central timenew York city's subway becomes a hellish underworld haunted by the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe.The Bridge, first published in 1930 by the Black Sun Press, is Hart Crane's first, and only, attempt at a long poem. (Its primary status as either an epic or a series of lyrical poems remains contested; recent criticism tends to read it as a hybrid, perhaps indicative of a new genre, the "modernist epic."[1])The Bridge was inspired by New York City's "poetry landmark",[2] the Brooklyn Bridge. Crane lived for some time at 110 Columbia Heights in Brooklyn, where he had an excellent view of the bridge; only after The Bridge was finished did Crane learn that one of its key builders, Washington Roebling, had once lived at the same address.[3]The first edition of the book features photographs by Crane's friend, the photographer Walker Evans.

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