Sara Mandrell English IV Bronk, William (1918-1999) William Bronk is best known for his austere view of the world as well as writing style. His language—subtle, balanced in tone and diction, essential—is possibly the most distilled in all of twentieth-century American poetry. In addition, Bronk is always explicit visually and resonant musically. His work keeps alive a New England poetic tradition, evoking nature and the seasons, winter most of all, and delving into the nature of reality or truth. These concerns were firmly established early in twentieth-century American poetry by the New England poets Robert FROST and Wallace STEVENS, then later by, along with Bronk, Robert CREELEY and George OPPEN, and in the nineteenth century by Henry David Thoreau (an especially strong influence on Bronk), Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Emily Dickinson.
The two older sisters Beatrice and Hilda both survived the war and reunited with Ellie in a French orphanage. Sarah, Ellie’s mother and Chlomo , Ellie’s father, died in the holocaust along with his youngest sister. Ellie and his sisters eventually moved to North America. After World War II, Wiesel taught Hebrew and worked as a choirmaster before becoming a professional journalist. He learned French, which became the language he used most frequently in writing.
In fact, the first poem in his first book and the last poem of his final book are both about encounters with nature. Some say Frost was a common American writer who was in love with nature, such as James Fenimore Cooper. However, others say the woodsman he wrote about as “independent, defiant of urban artificially and at one with nature was one of his conceptions of himself.” His poems about nature portray many different themes. Frost used the woods as a place that could be used “for restoration of
Thesis Statement: Carl Sandburg Became A Book Writer By Creating Books That Withheld Pomes And Interesting Stories About His Life. Carl Sandburg Was a famous writer of his time. He wrote poems and books on various things he had found and seen through his average everyday life style. Carl didn’t start out this way though, he was raised in a cottage on the outskirts of a small town with seven other children. He was the second oldest of the group.
Leaves of Grass has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese, and selections of his poetry have appeared in every major language." (Folsom and Price) America is often referred to as the "melting pot" for many cultures by historians everywhere. (Folsom and Price) Whitman's works embrace the idea for a diverse America. However, "Whitman was not interested in developing multiple cultures in the United States but instead in helping to realize one culture, a complex yet unified and distinctive people." (Folsom and Price) His works will continue to give hope to others for generations to come, making Walt Whitman known as the "poet of
“Fifteen” is generally considered one of the finest poems in the collection and shows Stafford’s simple narrative style. William Edgar Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, on January 17, 1914, to Ruby Mayher and Earl Ingersoll Stafford. The oldest of three children, Stafford grew up with an appreciation for nature and books (Life Story par. 1). During the Depression, the family moved from town to town as his dad searched for jobs.
One of the first poem that Simic published was “What the Grass Says”, this was when he was in high school in USA. Later in 1990 he received the Pulitzer Prize for his collection of prose poetry. If you read any one of the Simic’s poems you won’t be able to understand the clear meaning that he is trying to convey but as you read three or four of them, you will start to realize there is a strange sense of juxtapositions of objects in his works. The poems written by Charles Simic always have the sense of conflict within the poem itself. Simic is not afraid of exploring violence in his poems and this can be justified by his early days.
Sterling Brown: Renaissance poet One of the greatest and most influential writer and poet of the Harlem renaissance was Sterling Allen Brown. Brown Was born in on may first 1901 in Washington D.C. to Sterling Nelson and Adelaide Brown. Sterling Attended Harvard University where he did his graduate studies and later worked as a professor of English for forty years. He married Daisy Turnbull in 1927 and had one son. As a poet he many known works his best of which was also his first, Southern Road, published in 1932.
His time in England was what sparked his interest in Gothic Literature. In 1820, Poe’s family had gone back to Richmond, where he continued to excel in school. Jane Stith Stanton, a classmates’ mother who had offered support to Edgar when the other children teased him, died in 1824. Soon after, his first period of depression began. After John Allen’s business went through a bit of hardship, he came into some money, and was able to send Edgar to the University of Virginia.
English Literature (1) Dr. Sabah Shakury A research paper on" The Wanderer" Themes and Symbolism Prepared by: Mahmoud Mohamad Sulaiman Abdulhaleem Introduction The wanderer “The wanderer” is a poem that was composed early in the fifth or sixth century during the Anglo-Saxon period. In fact, this poem was not written directly but it was passed generation after generation orally for hundreds of years until it was written and preserved in the Exeter Book with a collection of English literary works. It was written in old English and consists of one hundred and fifteen lines. This poem is classified as a lament with an elegiac mood that was so common during that era. It talks about a wanderer who is mostly the speaker of the poem as a warrior who has to go into the experience of the exile.