Rahn states “the logical outgrowth of literary Realism was the point of view known as Naturalism. This literary movement, like its predecessor, found expression almost exclusively within the novel” (23). Most American poets were using Naturalism shortly before and after the turn of the twentieth century. Naturalism required poets to go further and be more clarifying than Realism by finding the core causes for a person’s actions or beliefs within a poem. The logic was that certain factors like social conditions were unavoidable elements in someone’s life.
William Carlos Williams [17th September, 1833 – 4th March, 1963] William Carlos Williams was an American poet, born in Rutherford, New Jersey. He died at the age of 79. With being a very successful poet, Williams was also a paediatrician and a general practitioner. He belonged to the modern era of literature and his works were profoundly associated with modernism and imagism. In addition to poems, Williams wrote short stories, essays, novels, plays and also did translation.
During these few year many considered to be the unhappiest times of Whitman’s life. He was consistently working hard for very little pay. Whitman recorded his sadness in several letters he wrote to a friend by the name of Abraham Leech. In of these letters it became quite evident of his dissatisfaction and no hope for the people of the area when he said, “Never before have I entertained so low an idea of the beauty and perfection of man’s nature, never have I seen humanity in so degraded a shape, as here” (Folsom.) As a result of Whitman’s dissatisfaction he sought to reinsert himself back in the world of Journalism in New York.
Analysis of “What is the Grass” Walt Whitman a truly American poet wrote a series of poems that shocked and amazed those in his time. Instead of copying the European styles like other writers before him, he wrote with his own flair which contained no rhyme or rhythm. One of his better known works titled: “A child said what grass is” speaks of a child with hands full of grass asking the speaker “what is the grass?”. This is followed by a monologue where the writer communicates all of his guesses of what the grass could be. In this section he begins many of the lines with “ I guess” this is too show that he is truly unsure of his own thoughts.
As I tried to figure out what have I read I found several interpretation of this work but they did not fit to my conceptions or to say my ideas. Many scholars wrote several critical essays and resource papers on this story and of course they focused on several different things but rewriting history. According to Christopher James – who won the national poetry competition in 2009 – this novel is: “Essentially it’s Robinson Crusoe meets Bear Grylls meets Life of Pi set in the 1940s and in the bleakest possible surroundings.”(James). That is one side of this multi shaped coin. After this I searched further interpretation of the text and I found Howard Babb’s words who said that many critics found this novel Golding’s most challenging book (Babb 65).
However the result of this campus patronage was not entirely suited to the volatile nature of those poets so situated, as expressed by English writer Stephen Spender who considered the atmosphere in which Berryman worked (one of admiration and isolation) connected to his eventual suicide. [footnote] It could be said that Berryman was as much influenced as he was an influence upon the poets he met during this formative period. [footnote] Berryman killed himself in 1972 after a struggle with alcoholism and mental health issues and the undoubted effects of his father's suicide. The idea of death is present throughout Berryman's writing as a source of inspiration, identified in an interview for the Paris Review, "The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he’s in business.
‘’In what way’s is ‘I wandered lonely as a Cloud’ a typical Romantic poem? ‘’ ‘’Romanticism is said to be an artistic and intellectual movement through which characterizing a heightened interest in nature can place emphasis on one’s expression of emotion and imagination. It shows an attitude towards some forms of classicism and can be seen as somewhat rebellious against social ruling and conventions.’’ (Eliot,G. 215) Romanticism was believed to be correctly defined by Rene Wellek’s approach to the subject, until more recent years where his definition has been challenged by numerous other critics, such as McGann and Day. Wellek described romanticism as ‘Imagination for the view of poetry, nature for the view of the world, and symbol and myth for poetic style’ (Wellek qtd.
Professor Franklin English 1020 16 March 2012, FD Symbolism in “The Tyger” In writing “The Tyger,” William Blake created one of the most misunderstood poems of all time. Scholars and professors have frequently analyzed the poem, but there has not been a set summary. The symbolism of the characters is both profound and enigmatic. Blake’s “The Tyger” takes a religious standpoint. The poem demonstrates the brutal and evil side of the world, but explains how it is created by the same person who made the good and Jesus.
The Bridal Ballad by Edgar Allan Poe Edit 1 0 11… Over the years, Edgar Allan Poe has written many popular poems. Though many of his short stories such as The Pit and the Pendulum, or The Tell Tale Heart may have had a major effect in Romanticism, many can assume that his poems had a better effect. It has been said that poetry in the Romanticism period is the “highest and most sublime embodiment of the imagination” (Langley). This happens to be true with many of Poe’s poems, such as The Bridal Ballad. “Daniel Hoffman observes that ‘the theme [of The Bridal Ballad] was one Poe had early tried to use in poetry [when Poe was starting to become a writer], producing only the bathetic Bridal Ballad.’ (Hoffman).
Eliot and “Beat! Beat! Drums!” by Walt Whitman are two primary examples of free verse poems written by two different pioneers of the genre, therefore the effects produced by free verse are beautifully contrasted between the above-named poems. Although not credited with being its creator, Walt Whitman is regarded as the father of free verse poetry. This genre adhered to his philosophy and also the time at which he was writing, a time at which the USA revelled in individualism with a breaking away from European attitudes that had governed it throughout the previous century.