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Collected Poems Of Charles Olson
3,399 wordsNicholas Everett Olson, Charles (1910-70), was born and raised in Worcester, Massachusetts, and educated at Wesleyan University and Harvard, where he studied American civilization. During the Second World War he worked for the Democratic Party and for the Office of War information as assistant chief of the Foreign Language Division. His first two books, Call Me Ishmael (1947), a study of Mellville's Moby-Dick, and The Mayan Letters (1953), written to Robert Creeley from Mexico where he was study...
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Poets Of The Courtly Lyrics
1,893 wordsBetween the twelfth and fifteenth century, the form of the lyric was founded in and became very popular within England. Few of the lyrics that were composed remain in existence today. This is mainly due to the fact that these lyrics were transferred orally. This meant they were never printed or published. The ones we do have paint for us a vague but sufficient picture of life as it was in these times. Particularly they give us a peek into the lives of the women of the medieval era and how they w...
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High School Cullen
395 wordsCountee Cullen By: JohnCountee Cullen (Porter) was considered by many to be the most talented of the Harlem Renaissance poets. Cullen was a novelist and a playwright, but he was known by most as a poet. He was born on March 30, 1903 in New York. Cullen was adopted at some point between the time of his birth and 1918. By 1921, he changed his last name to Cullen, from his adopted mothers last name. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School between (1918-1921). During this time he was editor of his sc...
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Imagery In Lone Bather From The Imagery
1,664 wordsPoetry is used to send a variety of messages, either through its imagery, meaning, or by the poetic devices used. Each and every poem has something special and unique to offer to the reader, as long as the reader looks deep enough to find it. 'Lone Bather'; written by A.M. Klein, and 'The Swimmer'; by Irving Layton both offer such messages to the reader. At first glance, these messages seem surprising similar, but after further examination they are in fact strikingly different. The similarities ...
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Political And Social Poet
1,369 wordsAbrahams claims that the romantic poets are 'centrally political and social poets' discuss this claim with reference to at least two poets. When the background of the Romantic era is looked at, it can be seen that there were changes in thought and attitudes after 1780 that are closely linked with both the political and social attitudes of the time. We will be discussing how these changes were reflected in the works of the poets. Poets of all era's have tended to write about what was happening in...
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Collected Poems Of Frank O'hara
1,539 wordsMark Doty Urbane, ironic, sometimes genuinely celebratory and often wildly funny, O'Hara would allow a realm of material and associations alien to academic verse to pour into his poems: the camp icons of movie stars of the twenties and thirties, the daily landscape of social activity in Manhattan, jazz music, telephone calls from friends; anything seemed ready material for inclusion into the particular order that the moment of composition would call for. Dadaist even in his approach to his own w...
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Poems Of Stevens
1,278 wordsRichard Howard The poems tell one story and one story only: they narrate the moment when Strand makes Rimbaud's discovery, that je est un autre, that the self is someone else, even something else; "The Mailman,"The Accident,"The Door,"The Tunnel", even "The Last Bus" with its exotic Brazilian stage-properties, all recount the worst, realizing every apprehension, relishing the things possible only in one's wildest fantasies of victimization, and then with a shriek as much of delight as of despair...
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Sara Teasdale Poetry
768 wordsSara Teasdale Poetry provides and gives a sense of mystery and marvel of life. Poetry has been dated back to the Renaissance Age where humanism was observed. The twentieth century also provides the world with great poets who speak about life and nature. An interesting but truthful poet, Sara Teasdale, spoke about life through simplicity. A weak health and numerous tragedies that reflected Sara Teasdale's work has provided the world with her outlooks on life. Sara Trevor Teasdale was born on Augu...
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Criminal For Guidance
428 wordsOriginal What still alive at twenty-two, A clean, upstanding chap like you Sure, if your throat 'tis hard to slit, Slit your girl's, and swing for it. Like enough, you won't be glad When they come to hang you, lad: But bacon's not the only thing That's cured by hanging from a string. So, when the spilt ink of the night Spreads o'er the blotting-pad of light, Lads whose job is still to do Shall whet their knives, and think of you. (4) (8) (12) Paraphrase You " re twenty-two and not dead yet A dis...
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Sidney C In The Shepheardes Calender Spenser
1,240 wordsEDMUND SPENSER. Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) the Great English Poet. A. Edmund Spenser began, intentionally and calculatingly, to become the master English poet of his age. B. Unlike such poets as Wyatt, Surrey, and Sidney, born to advantage and upper-social class, Spenser was born of moderate means and class, in London, possibly in 1552. C. He received a notable education, first at the Merchant Taylor's School, then at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was registered as a "sizar" (meaning imp...
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War Photographer
910 wordsWar Photographer By Carol Ann Duffy (Poem Analysis) "In his darkroom he is finally alone with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows. The only light is red and softly glows, as though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a Mass. Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass. He has a job to do. Solutions slop in trays beneath his hands which did not tremble then though seem to now. Rural England. Home again to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel, to fields whic...
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Taggard's Poetry
784 wordsBorn in Waits burg, Washington, Genevieve Taggard grew up in Hawaii where her missionary parents had built and ran a large "multi-cultural" school. A scholarship allowed her to enroll at the University of California at Berkeley, from which she graduated in 1919. Taggard moved to New York City in 1920. She worked first for the important modernist publisher B.W. Huebsch and then in 1921 started her own journal, the Measure, with a number of other young writers, including Maxwell Anderson. That sam...
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Permanent Like The Stars And Greek Mythology
1,411 wordsUnder The Waterfall By Thomas Hardy And Sweeney Among The Nightingales By T.S. Eliot Some people say that history finds a way of repeating itself. The same thing happened to poetry in the Twentieth Century era. Poetry returned to a metaphysical style, which concentrates on nature and the belief in the supernatural power of different things. You ask how is history repeating itself this way It is like this because this is the style that Romantic Poets wrote. The main difference between the two com...
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Poet In Frost
2,319 wordsRobert Lee Frost, b. San Francisco, Mar. 26, 1874, d. Boston, Jan. 29, 1963, was one of America's leading 20th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. An essentially pastoral poet often associated with rural New England, Frost wrote poems whose philosophical dimensions transcend any region. Although his verse forms are traditional -- he often said, in a dig at archrival Carl Sandburg, that he would as soon play tennis without a net as write free verse -- he was a pioneer in t...
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Yeats The Swans
709 wordsIn The Wild Swans at Cool, Yeats recreates a moment of inspiration and awe that he experienced in his youth. He is adept at recalling the feel of that particular evening and the! (R) October twilight! He includes details of the trees and woodland paths as if retracing his steps in his memory. The image of the stillness of the! (R) brimming water! and the sky mirrored in it is particularly effective. The stillness is contrasted with the sudden movement and breaking of the breathless serenity as t...
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Poets Use Of Descriptive Language
1,553 wordsOf all the poems in the anthology, the one I liked the most was The Cathedral Builders, by John Ormond. I liked it because of its optimistic tone, the poets' use of descriptive language and lofty imagery. The poet has created a tone of optimism and pride, and the relationships between the men who built the Cathedral, their families and their fellow workers, invites you to envision their lives. In the first verse, when the men are young, the impression the poet has created is that of energy, stre...
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Ee Cullen
1,005 wordsPoet, anthologist, novelist, translator, children's writer, and playwright, Count " ee Cullen wore many different hats. More than any other black writer of his generation, he was praised as a major crossover literary figure. While he was not the first black man to write "white" verse-ballads, quatrains, and such (Phyllis Wheatley and Paul Lawrence Dunbar came before him), he was the one who was most celebrated while doing so. If any one event started the Harlem Renaissance, it was when Count " e...
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Ballad Of Calvary Street Baxter
604 wordsChoose TWO or more poems by one poet you admire, and with close reference to the poems write an essay to justify your choice. One poet I admire is James K. Baxter, because this New Zealand poet deals with the issues of the society he lived in, using various techniques to reiterate these themes. Baxter published more than 30 books of poetry before his death in 1972, and he opposed Western materialism, and advocated social change and the spiritual values Catholic faith and Maori culture. These vie...
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Kaufman's Appellation As A Jazz Poet
4,583 wordsKathryne V. Lindberg Poet, prose poet, jazz performance artist, satirist, manifesto writer, and legendary figure in the Beat movement, Bob Kaufman successfully promoted both anonymity and myths of his racial identity and class origins. While romanticized biographies ascribe to him such epithets as g riot, shaman, saint, and prophet of Caribbean, African, Native American, Catholic, and / or Jewish traditions, respectively, Kaufman was most likely the tenth of thirteen children of an African Ameri...
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Modern Russian Poets On Poetry
2,095 wordsAcmeism The Reality of Poetry Russian poetry during between the years 1912 and 1925 is referred to as Acmeism. The word Acmeism comes from the Greek word? a kme? meaning? point? , ? tip? , ? summit? , or? flower? The? acmeist school? grew out of the Guild of Poets, a workshop founded in November 1911 by Nikolai Gumilev. As with all ages, there are positives and negatives to Acmeism. On the positive side of the acmeist aesthetic, there stood a demand for clarity and discernible logos in poetry as...
