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Year Later The Sandburgs
814 wordsAuthor-poet Carl Sandburg was born in the three-room cottage at 313 East Third Street in Galesburg on January 6, 1878. The modest house reflects the typical living conditions of a late nineteenth century working-class family. Many of the furnishings once belonged to the Sandburg family are still in tact. Behind the house stands a small wooded park. Underneath Remembrance Rock, lie the ashes of Carl Sandburg, who died in 1967. Carl August Sandburg was born the son of Swedish immigrants August and...
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Inspiration In Ode To The West Wind
1,614 wordsTheme: - Inspiration in 'Ode to the West Wind';' When composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline'; - P.B. Shelley Shelley deals with the theme of inspiration in much of his work. However it is particularly apparent in 'Ode to the West Wind' where the wind is the source of his creativity. The cycles of death and rebirth are examined in an historical context with reference to The Bible. The word inspiration has several connotations that Shelley uses in this 'Ode'. Inspiration is lit...
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Edwin Arlington Robinson Edwin Arlington Robinson
1,145 wordsEdwin Arlington Robinson Edwin Arlington Robinson was a poet who has long been popular among lay readers the non-literary public but the tremendous scope of his work and the power of his mastery over words marks him as one of the greater poets of his time. In spite of its consistent tone his works showed a great versatility. (Heiney pg. 244) Robinson was a poet of true vision and unimpeachable honesty. (Louis pg. 5) He was a man who loved words. Shy and almost wholly inarticulate he wrote with g...
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Oscar Wilde
492 wordsOscar Wilde was born in October 16th in 1854 (Oscar Wilde pg 5). His father William Wilde was an eye and ear doctor he was said to have pioneered the industry (Internet source). He also wrote medical books on this subject some of which became textbooks until well after his death (internet source). He was a very well learned and well-spoken man who fit right into Dublin's high society. His mother, Lady Jane Francesca Wilde was a smart, witty, and sophisticated women who was the perfect counterpar...
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Moore's First Poem
2,436 wordsElaine Oswald and Robert L. Gale She was born Marianne Craig Moore in Kirkland, Missouri, the daughter of John Milton Moore, a construction engineer and inventor, and Mary Warner. Moore had an older brother, John Warner Moore. She never met her father; before her birth his invention of a smokeless furnace failed, and he had a nervous and mental breakdown and was hospitalized in Massachusetts. Moore's mother became a housekeeper for John Riddle Warner, her father, an, affectionate, well-read Pres...
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Johnsons Manipulation Of Reality
1,883 wordsSamuel Johnson, following in the footsteps of other great English critics, was a great poet. Johnsons poetry was different from any other writer in the late eighteenth century. He used poetry as a tool for an escape from the reality of life. Johnson would also use poetry as a tool for expression of emotion and praise for accomplishment. When Johnson wrote a poem of praise or to express emotion he would still convey his message beyond reality. He would emphasize an event so immensely that it woul...
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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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Publisher Of Other Women Poets
5,884 wordsfrom an Interview with Nisa Donnelly Judy Grahn, the poet, activist, and self-described renegade scholar of gay life, personifies contemporary lesbian writing. At 54, she has a massive body of work that reflects the growth and development of the lesbian-feminist movement that she helped found on the West Coast more than a quarter-century ago. Lines from her poems became the rallying cry for a movement; her interpretation of history gave us a place in the world. In the last ten years, I have had ...
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Kind Of Material In A Poem
3,200 wordsJeff Gundy from "A Conversation with William Stafford" What follows is part of a conversation between William Stafford and myself in August 1988 at his home in Lake Oswego, Oregon. Having received a summer research grant from my college to explore Stafford's work in relation to his pacifism and his experience as a conscientious objector, I had certain kinds of questions in mind. But our talk ranged widely, as you " ll soon discover. -Jeff Gundy Jeff Gundy: Einstein remembers his father giving hi...
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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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Room Of One's Own By Virginia Woolf
1,588 wordsThe Origin of Feminism Differences between the genders are not a recent topic. The Romantic, Victorian, and Modern (20th Century) Periods, each had a different perspective and view when it came to writing about women. During the Romantic period, Mary Wollstonecraft sparked the idea of women rights in "A Vindication of the Rights of Women". During the Victorian period, men believed that women should stay at home and take care of the household; they should be angels and guide their husbands on the...
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Emily Dickinson Rs
2,457 wordsWehler's Interview with Ruth Stone will be published in the Paterson Literary Review, Vol. 30, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Editor, Poetry Center, Passaic County Community College, One Paterson, NJ 07505-1179 MW: I was first drawn to your poetry because it was written in HER story, more about women. How do you stay funny, not angry, and still subtle with your jabs. RS: My anger is in all my poems. But here's the thing, in this world you can't just get up and bash them on the head. (men and academia)....
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Write Poems
3,318 wordsAn Interview With William Stafford Essay, Research An Interview With William Stafford This interview was conducted on February 6, 1971, at William Stafford's home in McLean, Virginia, and was published in Crazy Horse 7 (1971). Dave Smith is the interviewer. Dave Smith: Does the poet mythologize his own world in the sense that he makes the things of his world better or worse than they are? William Stafford: If I could think of an image for myself, instead of domesticating the world to me, I'm dom...
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Kind Of Poem W.S. Merwin
4,858 wordsfrom Artful Dodge Daniel Bourne: Your poem on Berryman last night was interesting. It seemed rather un-Merwinlike, a very traditional focus, little elliptical movement. Is this a kind of departure, something new, or a return to the roots of an earlier literature, with that kind of poem? W.S. Merwin: I have no idea. I don't have any ideological sense of what is Merwinlike or un-Merwinlike. I'm always happy to find I'm writing a poem which is different from anything I've written before, but I don'...
