(Clugston, 2010). A boy’s reflection of days and season’s gone by. This making me feels the emotion of missing my hometown and the wonderful fruit that has been grown throughout my own childhood and walking down the roads back in 1975, instead of 1995. The same state and area of that state, the same winters, the same roads of which I had walked many times with my Sister’s and other family members. Nostalgically wonderful author and narration of this poem and poet.
Menken called Carl Sandburg insurability an American in every pulse beat. It has to be an honor to have people gives you that much respect when you’re not even fully American. He was a successful journalist, poet, historian, biographer, and auto biographer. During the course of his career Sandburg won two Pulitzer prizes, one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. Carl Sandburg was smart when he took his entire obsession and made something good out of it.
“Letter to posterity” by Francesco Petrarca is a very interesting work of literature from the 14th century. I personally find it very interesting how a man of such a field as poetry can start off his mini autobiography by saying how much he hates extravagant gatherings. He later went to go on in this piece to talk about all the accolades he received and the noble friendships he had made. And noble in the sense of being friends with people in the position of nobility. He grew up a very simple and poor life.
Unknown Darkness To write about things nobody likes to talk about or even mention in real life makes Nathaniel Hawthorne a great poet and a famous one at that. Hawthorne wrote so much about the American Colonies and how they lived their lives, he captured the smallest details of that time. Imagine being a writer in those times trying to find things to write about, in some of his poems you can see what a morbid mind he had, and it’s possibly due to his environment. Some of his Ancestors were direct descendants of Puritan judges. Which might have influenced his all famous “Scarlet Letter” and “The Minister’s Black Veil”, both these poems evoke each readers own personal judgments on human nature.
Nathanael’s literary style and theme of his stories were passionate romanticism and mainly dark romanticism. The spectacular author had many amazing works and so many popular books. One of his greatest works was The Scarlet Letter (1850) and Twice-Told Tales (1837). Edgar Allan Poe once said, "The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective—wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes... We look upon him as one of the few men of indisputable genius to whom our country has as yet given birth".
Edgar Allan Poe Out of all the great well known American literature authors; Edgar Allan Poe is the name that everyone has heard of. Edgar Allan Poe has written many well known pieces. There are many rumors about Edgar Allan Poe weather it is good or bad. some say that he was abusive and an alcoholic. some say that he’s a genius when it comes to literature.
English 105 Billy Collins “The Trouble with Poetry” I am ashamed to admit, that before taking my first Poetry class that I had never heard of the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Billy Collins. I am even more ashamed to say that it still took me quite awhile to read his work; however once I did I fell head over heels in love with his words. As soon as I began reading one of his more recent collections, The Trouble with Poetry, I was enthralled. He begins his collection with a poem directed at the reader, opening with lines that may also challenge them.
RUPERT BROOKE * Young and handsome man from a highly privileged background who wrote a number of idealized and extremely popular sonnets about war. * Went to a public school and then to university at Cambridge * He had a great talent for sport, theatre and literature, and was considered by his peers to be a leading light of his generation, destined for great things. * Brooke joined the army on the outbreak of war, but never actually saw action— he died in April 1915, developing sepsis on a journey across the Mediterranean towards Gallipoli in Southern Turkey. 101 – PEACE What is it about? * This sonnet celebrates what Brooke feels is his generation’s great fortune to be born to fight in the First World War.
This cooperation lasted until the end of Verne's career. Hetzel had also worked with Balzac and George Sand. He read Verne's manuscripts carefully and did not hesitate to suggest corrections. One of Verne's early works, Paris in the Twentieth Century, was turned down by the publisher, and it did not appear until 1997 in English. Verne's novels gained soon a huge popularity throughout the world.
Dickens uses the tortured ghost of Marley to warn against living a selfish life. An important part of ‘A Christmas Carol’ is that it was deliberately written to be entertaining to allow his moral warning to be spread throughout society. Dickens made his novella entertaining using various techniques. The story is structured it into staves to make the narrative easier to understand which was important as many people were illiterate during Dickens’s time. Vivid descriptions are used to create mental mages based around a popular festive season.