In this paper, I would like to make clear the importance of the comparative literary method in approaching the works of George Oppen (1908-1984). To explain his nonconforming poetic works, first of all, it should be remembered that in 1926 Carl Sandburg came to the Agricultural College at Corvalis near San Francisco, where college students, George and his future wife Mary among them, attended his poetry reading of “Tog”, which is said to be influenced by “Haiku”.
After being married, George and Mary, hitchhiked from San Francisco to New York, where they met Louis Zukofsky, one of the forerunners of modern poetry in the East. In 1932, Zukofsky edited The Objective Anthology, a guide post of objectivism and in its epic section chose Oppen’s poem:
White, From the Under arm of T The red globe. Up Down. Round Shiny fixed Alternatives From the quiet Stone Floor…
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