Kate Chopin Essay

In an article in a “Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion” it talks about the life of author Kate Chopin, who also wrote the short story “The Story of an Hour”. She is considered an important figure in nineteenth-century American fiction and as a major figure in feminist literature. She was born on February 8, 1851, in Missouri. At one point in her life, one of her works called “The Awakening” caused so much commotion and controversy that she abandoned her literary career and only wrote very little up until her death in August 22, 1904. Many feminist critics followed her work because of the way she handled and commented on the institution of marriage and female independence and sexuality. In the year 1870, she married a wealthy …show more content…
He spoke his mind on subjects through his writing and spoke up for people of color as well. One critic named Countee Cullen reviewed one of Langston Hughes works and felt that just alone in that piece of work, Hughes poems were always “one-sided” and over emphasized strictly Negro themes. Just like Cullen, many critics and writers responded similarly to his works. However, just as the bad critics there was the good critics that stated in the article that one should have a “sophisticated ear” to learn to appreciate his work. During the half of the 20h century one of his poems called “Theme for English B” caused great interest among critics. Some say that it is even one of the most important poems in sequence because it “explodes a notion of a racially pure self”. The way it was written and from the point of view it was told, it makes the poem so much more believable and connects with the audience on a personal level. Contemporary readers can find so much more in this poem, and as Gayle Pemberton stated, “Under such circumstances,” she says, “the guarded hope of mutual discovery, imagination, and life—of the mind, soul, and heart—found in Hughes’s ‘Theme for English B’ is an indecipherable hieroglyph from a long lost