

Eliot as the seminal poet of his time, remarking on his art as an extension of "a feeling of marginality and the capacity to exploit the marginality in the service of one's life mission." Nearly a hundred years later, Nayyirah Waheed echoes this sentiment in her statement regarding the publication of her seminal work Salt: "I wrote centrally to. In Gardner's novel Creating Minds, Howard Gardner explores the past of T.S. She doesn't answer her own question, or even pose it as a question with the proper punctuation mark of a "?". Waheed explores a sentiment of pain, fear, and oppression without even a question mark. Travyon Martin unambiguously addressees the murder of Travyon Martin, but Waheed provides no context for her poem.
