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Gabriela Mistral
693 wordsGabriela Mistral was an extraordinary woman. Her life was filled with tragedy but she turned her experiences into beautiful poetry. Her poetry reflected many things about who Gabriela Mistral was and what had happened to her throughout her life. Gabriela Mistral was born on April 7, 1889 in Vicu~na, Chile. When she was only three years old, her father abandoned her family. She attended a rural primary school and the Vicu~na state secondary school. By the age of sixteen, she started to support he...
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Ginsberg's Friends At Columbia
1,817 wordsAnn Charters Ginsberg, Allen (3 June 1926-6 Apr. 1997), poet, was born in Newark, New Jersey, the younger son of Louis Ginsberg, a high school English teacher and poet, and Naomi Levy Ginsberg. Ginsberg grew up with his older brother Eugene in a household shadowed by his mother's mental illness; she suffered from recurrent epileptic seizures and paranoia. An active member of the Communist Party-USA, Naomi Ginsberg took her sons to meetings of the radical left dedicated to the cause of internatio...
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Lowell's Poems
2,505 wordsMarcia B. Dinneen Amy Lowell was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the daughter of Augustus Lowell and Katherine Bigelow Lawrence. Both sides of the family were New England aristocrats, wealthy and prominent members of society. Augustus Lowell was a businessman, civic leader, and horticulturalist, Katherine Lowell an accomplished musician and linguist. Although considered as "almost disreputable", poets were part of the Lowell family, including James Russell Lowell, a first cousin, and later Rob...
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Coleridge's Treatment Of The Mariner
2,035 wordsQuestion: How does any writer on the course treat the figure of the social outcast or outsider For the purposes of this assignment I will be examining two of Coleridge's most notable poetic works; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan. From The Rime I will be examining the poets treatment of the Mariner himself and from Kubla Khan both Kubla Khan and the unnamed poetic presence that is makes its self know at end of the poem. At first the Mariner may not immediately seem like a social ou...
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Kumin's Poems
4,364 wordsReview of Kumin's Selected Poems 1960-1990 Richard Tillinghast This selection of work by Maxine Kumin from a 30-year writing career will be a welcome addition to any poetry library. Her poems bracingly remind us of several enduring virtues valued by anyone who reads verse for pleasure. First, like today's most vital and interesting poets, Kumin is neither a full-time "formalist" nor a practitioner of the monotonous free-verse "plain style" many of her contemporaries have been stuck in since the ...
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Poets With Many Lyric And Dramatic Minds
3,099 wordsCIRCUMFERENCE "My business is circumference". Emily Dickinson in a letter to Colonel Higginson, July 1862. For some centuries English critics have been at work to revise or apply the term metaphysical given John Donne and his school. The word does very well, I think, if we use it of poetry, to describe a state of mind, not to designate a system of thought with the exactitude of the philosopher or the scientist. "Dryden gave the term metaphysical to the odd terminology of Donne's poetic philosoph...
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Snyder's Poem
1,755 wordsGary Snider the American Poet A spiritual man, conscious of nature and his surroundings. He recognizes good and evil, and struggles to find his own special place in the realm of all other men. He searches far and wide for places of interest, upon arrival, he hopes to find a solemn sanctuary for man and nature. Gary Sherman Snyder, the son of Harold and Lois Snyder, was born in San Francisco, California, on May 8, 1930. The Family moved quite a few times before they settled down in Portland, Oreg...
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Theodore Roethke
1,091 wordsThe Somber Dance Theodore Roethke, poet and author, has contributed many well-known pieces to American literature. Roethke wrote close to 200 notebooks worth of poems. Only three percent of the poems in his notebooks were actually published. Most pieces, well-known to the public, are collections of poems such as The Waking, which he won a Pulitzer prize for in the mid 1950's. The Lost Son and Open House are two other collections pieces of Roethke. A couple novels also helped this aspiring author...
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Collins Poem
1,447 wordsBilly Collins Billy Collins was born on March 22, 1941 in New York, NY and is married to Diane Collins. He is the son of Katherine M. Collins and William S. Collins. Collins received a Bachelors Degree at the College of the Holy Cross in 1963 and also received a Ph. D. in romantic poetry in 1971. He has been a writer-in-residence at Sarah Lawrence College and also was a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library. He is an English Professor at Lehman College for CUNY, where he has been teaching...
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Robinson Jeffers On The Other Hand
2,516 wordsThe Nature of Man by Robinson Jeffers Robinson Jeffers is one of the twentieth centuries most important and controversial poets. He, like others in history, has tried to give his opinion about life. Many poets in the twentieth century focused on issues affecting mankind, Jeffers is no exception. Most of his work was inspired by his surroundings. One's environment is great source for poetic inspiration. Poets come and go, but their ideas are kept alive through their poems. Whether they are a hund...
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Poem Heaney
3,912 wordsThe Troubles With Seamus Heaney The poet Keats wrote that "the only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's own mind about nothing - to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thought, not a select body". That this may be an admirable aim for a poet, and especially so for one writing against a background of ethnic violence, is not in doubt. It is, however, extremely difficult to remain neutral when one identifies oneself with an ethnic party involved in conflict. It is my inten...
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Duncan In His Poetics
1,588 wordsLet's begin with the thought that Duncan, in his poetics, embodies a series of paradoxes that at once reflect and reflect upon the antecedent poetics of what he called his "modernist masters". Such paradoxes were what struck me when I first encountered Duncan at the Vancouver Poetry Conference, staged at the University of British Columbia in 1963. I had come to know Duncan's work initially through Donald Allen's pathbreaking anthology, The New American Poetry, then through The Opening of the Fie...
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Pound To Europe
1,082 wordsEzra Pound's Developing Ideas Often called 'the poet's poet,' because of his profound influence on 20th century writing in English, American poet and critic, Pound, believed that poetry was the highest of the arts. You never would have believed that a writer and optimist such as Ezra Pound would have been born in Hailey, Idaho in 1885. From the sound of his work you'd thing he was definitely one of those European Imagist. In 1908, after teaching college for two years, Pound traveled abroad to Sp...
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One Other Form Of Poetry
2,337 wordsCould I be an artist? I always thought I had some flare for the arts. I've always been considered a creative person. I decided to put my creativity to a different use, however. I opted for a career in helping others get the most out of their careers. Tonight will be my testimony to helping the real artists get recognized. Tonight is Gallery Night. The weather station did not indicate anything about rain this evening. So, of course, I did not prepare for such a downpour. My lack of preparation ha...
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First Start Writing Poems Levertov
2,344 wordsA Poet's Valediction by Nicholas O'Connell In a final interview, poet Denise Levertov discusses the egotism of modern poetry, the sacredness of writing, and the spiritual hunger of our technologically dependent society. Denise Levertov, who died on December 20, 1997, was much loved by her readers and an inspiration to several generations of poets. She forged a middle path in modern poetry, marrying the hard, dry objective style of the Imagist poets with the music and metaphysical yearnings of fi...
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Tyrant For Thy Sake This Question
794 wordsIn William Shakespeare's sonnet number one hundred and forty-nine there is a very clear case of unrequited love. In a somber tone he outlines the ways in which he selflessly served his beloved only to be cruelly rejected. His confusion about the relationship is apparent as he reflects upon his behavior and feelings towards her. This poem appears to be written to bring closure to the relationship, but it could be argued that this poem is one final effort to win her affection. The first twelve lin...
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Fewer The Poems The Better The Poet
2,943 wordsROBERT Frost has been discovering America all his life. He has also been discovering the world; and since he is a really wise poet, the one thing has been the same thing as the other. He is more than a New England poet: he is more than an American poet; he is a poet who can be understood anywhere by readers versed in matters more ancient and universal than the customs of one country, whatever that country is. Frost's country is the country of human sense: of experience, of imagination, and of th...
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Poet Carolyn Forch
5,195 wordsCarolyn Forch is known as a political poet, calling herself a "poet of witness" [source]. Growing up in Detroit in the 1950's, poet Carolyn Forch recalls discovering photographs from a Nazi concentration camp in Look Magazine. After her mother confiscated the journal and hid it, young Forche re-confiscated it, marking perhaps the beginning of a poetic vocation devoted to exposing tyranny, injustice, and bearing witness to the atrocities of the 20th century. Born one of seven children to a Czech-...
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Prose Form
3,158 wordsPreface from Lowell's Men, Women, and Ghosts (New York: Macmillan Company, 1917) vii-xii. This is a book of stories. For that reason I have excluded all purely lyrical poems. But the word "stories" has been stretched to its fullest application. It includes both narrative poems, properly so called tales divided into scenes; and a few pieces of less obvious story telling import in which one might say that the dramatis personae are air, clouds, trees, houses, streets, and such like things. It has l...
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Traherne's Poetry With A Poem
2,539 wordsA Study Of Traherne's Metaphysical Poetry Essay, A Study Of Traherne's Metaphysical Poetry It is more than mere coincidence that the two poets who have produced the greatest visions of Paradise in the history of English literature both composed their works in the same twenty-five year period. The first – John Milton, needs very little introduction, while the second is the lesser known seventeenth century religious poet Thomas Traherne. Traherne's poetry, only uncovered at the end of the ni...
