Reason and enlightenment played a dominant role during the period of the age of reason. Satirical and skeptical were the mode of their writing style. Emotions, feelings, instinct and idealism are key for the writer those emerged during the Romantic and Gothic period in American literature. Imagination and autobiographical elements dominate in the works whereas supernatural elements are blended in the works of the Dark Romantics. Autonomy and individualism are given preference by the transcendentalists.
Starting out with their literary style of writing, both poets have written descriptive, non-rhyming poems broken down into a lengthy amount of stanzas. Each depicts their own views on the America they see around them from Ginsberg’s travels in an urban New York City, to Whitman’s Long Island home where the land was divine and natural. For the most part, Whitman makes himself known to be the speaker by starting out most of the stanzas with the word “I”. He, himself wants to connect with the readers as well does Ginsberg, who also depicts to the reader his personal thoughts. For instance, “Howl” begins with the line “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness” while Whitman’s begins with “I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume”.
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.
One of the most known poems in of his book “Leaves of Grass” is Song of myself. In a scary translation of life and the real experiences of Americans post World War II, “Howl” is a mind blowing and disturbing poem by Allen Ginsberg. In this essay I’m going to compare Whitman’s “Song of Myself” to “Howl” written by Beat generation poet Allen Ginsberg. There are a number of ways that Whitman’s influence can be noticed in Ginsberg’s work “Howl”, including a similar style of format and structure, a similar impact on the literary world and a concern with American people. Another significant influence that Whitman has for Ginsberg is the fact that Whitman had been an outcast from the literary circle of his era, with his long -winded style, free verse, sexual exposure and his appearance as a plainly dressed workman rather than a high society poet.
His most famous fictional character is Jesse B. Semple, nickname Simple, who uses humor to protest and satirize the existing injustice. Hughes, however, writing from a black man’s perspective, is much less optimistic about what America has been or will be. While Whitman’s’ poem was very unstructured in blank verse, Hughes’s poem is more tightly controlled with rhyme, tone, rhetorical questions, and more unified with repeated anaphora. Langston Hughes uses connotation well in this poem to evoke all of the wonderfully patriotic images of America but also to make the reader question this images. These images are very vivid; the idea of scars connotes all the violence and beatings of slavery, which makes the reader even more passionate of the reading.
Although the poem identifies “myself” as Walt Whitman, the identity of the speaker is also mythic. Instead of trying to say how unique his feelings and thoughts are, Whitman emphasizes his own self. His ordinary self is so comprehensive that he absorbs each American, past, present, and future. This comprehensive awareness makes the speaker of the poem greater than himself, but it is greatness that he emphasizes to us as readers. Whitman's poem is really long it has a lot of symbolism, imagery, descriptions and whatever else you can name.
| A Bibliographical and Literary Analysis of Stephen Crane | | | English 2130 aaaaaaa December 10, 2010 Thesis: Stephen Crane was a prominent writer in history, a rare breed contributor to American literature and a natural poet. * Title: A Bibliographical and Literary Analysis of Stephen Crane * The Purpose of this Paper is to demonstrate how Crane’s writings contributed to American literature, to tell about Crane’s life, to describe his stories and provide feedback from his audiences. * Introduction * Thesis statement * To describe Stephen Crane’s style of writing * To explain Crane’s contributions to American literature * To discuss his style of poetry * Analyzing Crane’s work * Identify sources to support Crane’s writing style, critiques and analysis * Sources to provide bibliography information on Stephen Crane * Present evidence and ideas from sources * Cite each of your statements used to support statements * Describe some of Crane’s stories and poetry * Conclusions * Restate thesis * Restate support of Crane’s writing styles * Restate Crane’s contributions to American literature * References * List each reference source using MLA format Ronda Vanek Betty Keel English 2130 November 11, 2010 A Bibliographical and Literary Analysis of Stephen Crane Stephen Crane was a prominent writer in history, a rare breed contributor to American literature and natural poet. Crane wrote with a knack for capturing the attention of his readers using imagination and originality. Crane’s creativity flows in his writing, capturing his audience and open one’s mind for imagination and realism all in one.
Walt Whitman Shaping the American Character History Lauren Kilroy Walt Whitman, one of the oldest known poets of democracy, who has writing that has influenced the national character, during the 1840s in places like New York. Walt Whitman is important to the american character because his works inspired patriotism in the United States. "Whitman...spoke to the intrest of the day and from a particular class perspective"(Folsmon 3). During the time of his writings he wrote things that were very taboo subjects like black people. In his writing he did not concern the colored people as dirty or anything bad he empowers them and makes them seem like they are equals to the white men that own them.
Taruna Seebaransingh Dr. Vijay Maharaj Ms. Shannon Julien LITS 2307 16th November 2012 Brewton (2005) defines literary theory as the body of ideas and methods used in the practical reading of literature. In other words, literary theory refers to underlying principles, or tools by which we attempt to understand literature. Therefore, in the novel Midnight Robber, Hopkinson spearheads a literary masterpiece through which the theories of postmodernism and post colonialism is most applicable and can be effectively read. There is no set definition for the theoretical viewpoints, but rather an assorted array of characteristics associated to the terms which can be described as postmodern or postcolonial. Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber portrays a manifestation of various characteristics of postmodernism, such as irony, the incredulity of metanarratives, temporal distortion, pastiche, technoculture, hyperreality, intertextuality, metafiction and histographic metafiction, as well as characteristics of postcolonialism such as Orientalism, pluralism, identity, double consciousness, colonization and resistance.
What is poetry “If normal sentences are orange squash, poetry is like the syrup before it is diluted.” Poetry has always been considered as a compressed and sophisticated form of literature while critics and readers have long been trying to work out a definition for it. However, there are always poems that do not seem to fit into the numerous conclusions they have drawn and the debate on whether poetry should be defined has therefore arose. Even so, critics have reached consensus on the characteristics of generally recognised poetry and the features of it through reading and analysing poetry of different centuries. In light of the above, this essay will explore the generally accepted features and techniques observable in poetry, the function of poetry and the reason why poetry should not be defined. Firstly, to answer the question, readers must be familiar with the common characteristics of poetry such as line breaks, the wide use of figures of speech and techniques, and the expression of various themes and meanings through limited number of lines.