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State Of Mind Vietnam War
1,806 wordsAllen Ginsberg, born on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey, was one of the founders of the Beatnik subculture. His mother was a Communist and extremely paranoid, often trusting her son while scared of her family and the rest of society. Ginsberg struggled through family conflicts and homosexuality throughout his adolescence. Upon graduating high school, he moved on to Columbia University where he, during his freshman year was introduced to Beats such as Lucien Carr and Jack Kerouac who helped hi...
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Dylan Thomas And His Poetry
1,049 words... rest works show his strong Welsh influence, but he was less aware of it. When he moved from Wales, he realized that his poetry was strongly affected by his Welsh culture. He felt himself belonging to his native culture. (Ferris 1, p. 67). In a note with his Collected Poems, he writes: I read somewhere of a shepherd who, when asked why he made, from within fairy rings, ritual observances to the moon to protect his flocks, replied: Id be a damn fool if I didnt! These poems, with all their crud...
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Jews And Gypsies Sylvia Plath
1,462 wordsTwo Poems Two Lives Daddy by Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963) and My Papas Waltz by Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963) are autobiographic poems that describe father-child relationships. Sylvia Plath portrays her father Otto Plath and Theodore Roethke portrays his father Otto Roethke. These two poems are ambiguous and reveal much not only about both poets childhoods, but also about their adult characters as well as perception of themselves. The task of this work is analysis and comparison of the poems Dadd...
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William Carlos Williams Quot Quot
3,547 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 Melville Moby-Dick, and The Mayan Letters (1953), written to Robert Creeley from Mexico where he was studyi...
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Garden Of Eden Dylan Thomas
2,143 wordsDylan Thomas was born on October 14, 1914, in Upland, Swansea. His father, David John Thomas, received a degree at University College Aberystwyth and was valedictorian in English, he taught English at Swansea Grammar School. His father, quick tempered and intimidating had a beautiful, sonorous voice for reading aloud (which Dylan inherited). Florence Hannah Williams, Thomas? s mother, was a tailor before she was married. Thomas was a troublesome child. He stole money from his mother? s purse, an...
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Edwin Arlington Robinson Years Of Age
1,060 wordsRobinson has been the subject of more speculation? than almost any other poet of our time (Franchere 7). Numerous events in his life are reflected through his poetry. Edwin Arlington Robinson was born on December 22, 1869 in his fathers home in Head Tide, Maine beside the Sheepscot River. His family moved to the town of Gardiner, Maine, which was only a few miles away, when he was six months old. Gardiner is Tilbury Town used in his poems. He is the son of Edward and Mary Palmer Robinson. Dean a...
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Museum Of Modern Art Quot Quot
1,507 wordsMark Doty Urbane, ironic, sometimes genuinely celebratory and often wildly funny, OHara 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 wo...
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5,994 wordsFrosts Life And Careerby William H. Pritchard Frosts Life And Careerby William H. Pritchard And Stanley Burnshaw William H. Pritchard Frost was born in San Francisco, where he spent his first eleven years. After the death of his father, a journalist, he moved with his mother and sister to eastern Massachusetts near his paternal grandparents. He wrote his first poems while a student at Lawrence High School, from which he graduated as co-valedictorian with the woman he was to marry, Elinor Miriam ...
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African American Poetry York W W Norton
561 wordsThe Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman Barbara Tuchman's Guns of August is about World War 1. Her book has a unique way of telling this story. Her books gives explanations for each countrys involvement in the war. It describes the opinions of the Czar and reasons for all of his crucial decisions during this time. It also explains how Germany was in a tight spot and prepared for war a few years before it actually began. England was not to worried about the war in Europe because it had its own prob...
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T S Eliot Eliot
2,316 wordsImages Of Women: Major Barbara, A Passage Images Of Women: Major Barbara, A Passage To India, And The Poetry Of T. S. Eliot Images of Women: Major Barbara, A Passage to India, and the poetry of T. S. Eliot The Victorian Era was a difficult and confusing time for women, and their trials are reflected in the literature of the time. Although the three pieces of literature being discussed are not entirely about women, they shed light on the Victorian ideal of women and the ideals of the authors who ...
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Nobel Prize Collected Poems
6,357 wordsRobert M. Ryley As a senior in high school, Kenneth Fearing was voted wittiest boy and class pessimist. If there had been elections for class cynic and class misanthropist, he would probably have won these as well. After his death, his friends would remember his charm, his eloquence, his almost courtly manners, his prickly independence, his not-quite-hidden vulnerability and innocence but mostly they would remember his gloomy, sardonic skepticism. In Margery Latimer's roman? clef This Is My Body...
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Telling The Story Collected Poems
2,278 wordsLaura (Riding) Jacksons poetry and criticism are intricately linked in their inquiry into the paradoxical nature of human expression and feeling. After practicing poetry from the early 1920 s to 1938, she renounced poetry saying that its no longer served as a means of expressing the modern word / world . Poetry bears in itself the message that it is the destiny of human beings to speak the meaning of being, but it nurses it in itself as in a sacred apartness, not to be translated into the langua...
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T S Eliot Quot And Quot
2,459 wordsMaxwell Geismar It is ironical but in a sense logical that an authentic " proletarian" poet today one who writes directly from the experience of the people, from the depths of poor peoples lives, and mainly poor black people; a poet who speaks their language, and whose poetry in turn can be understood by these people should be the descendant of a famous old New England family of dissenters, iconoclasts, atheists and freethinkers (among the clergymen members), ardent abolitionists, nati...
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1,213 words" On Suppression" By John Beecher Essay, Research" On Suppression" By John Beecher John Beecher Gulag Archipelago is in every bookshop window across the country. How smugly we congratulate ourselves on our putative freedom of expression without fear of a crushing totalitarian bureaucracy. But search these same bookshops for the works of contemporary American poets. If you can find any such at all they will be buried in the darkest corner of the shelves or banished to the balc...
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Pulitzer Prize Collected Poems
576 wordsIsabelle Moodie and William Prescott Frost Jr. were blessed with a son March 26, 1874. This son was named after the Confederate general, Robert E. Lee. We know him today as Robert Lee Frost, one of the best-known and loved poets of all time. Frost began kindergarten in 1879; however, he was struck with nervous stomach pains the very first day and never returned. Frost did attempt to return to school on a few occasions, but was always struck with the stomach pains, and had to return home. Robert ...
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