Ezra Pound

Hilda Doolittle is known all over the world as H.D. H.D is the name she was published under. She was an American poet and novelist, wrote about many things. Hilda Doolittle was very interested in the ways of Greek mythology and was an inspiration imagist. Doolittle was born into the Moravian community in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She was born September 10, 1886. Her father, Charles Doolittle, was professor of astronomy at Lehigh University. Doolittle’s mother, Helen (Wolle), had a very strong…

cities and the people, the changing political and economic climate, and any advancements that may have taken place because of the war. This movement brought along poets such as Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams. Out of the modernist movement came the imagist movement which was helmed by Ezra Pound. The imagist movement was created to directly describe the image the poem was portraying as clear and concise as possible without adding major symbolism throughout the piece…

generation to be educated in precisely this manner” (Docherty) of a “sound classical education” that resulted in him adopting many poetic strategies. E.E. Cummings then attended Harvard University where he was introduce to the avant-garde writers of Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. These two writers influenced Cummings in such a huge way that Cummings himself became an avant-garde writer too by experimenting with different techniques and grammar in his poetry. In his two poems “Spring is like a…

Marianne Moore was a small town girl, born around St. Louis Missouri. She moved around alot in her life. When Marianne Moore was reaching adolescence, her father left her and her mother, leaving them with no money to keep their house. So they had to move to her grandfather's house and stay there until his death. Which was on 1894. They just moved from one relative to another until the big move to carlisle, PA. Moore graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a BA degree in biology in 1909. Following…

Comparing Robert Frost 's poems "Birch" and "A Road Not Traveled" is difficult and forces the reader to shift the way they read and interpret the poems. And also makes the reader think about the author of the poem; who he was, what his life was like, and what he was trying to say using poetic words the captivated for many generations. We first must understand who the author was, his life, his death, and events that may have impacted his writings. Robert Frost was born in the year of 1874 in San…

Sophia Eddy Ms.Austin English 10c 12 March 2015 Robert Frost The poetry of Robert Frost, which was influenced by personal background and by the Romantic literary period, has contributed to the American literary heritage greatly. Robert Frost was born on March 26,1874 in San Francisco, California. His parents were Isabel Moodie and William Prescott Frost. His father was an alcoholic and died of tuberculosis when…

It was from his very own works that would be able to analyze complex social and philosophical themes. Regardless of Frost’s ongoing popularity, he is still seen as an outsider in the academy, where more “complex” and “contemporary” poets like Ezra Pound or…

Edward Estlin Cummings: The Master of Art Genealogy and geography, along with numerous other circumstances molded Edward Estlin Cummings into an innovative poet and painter of the modernism movement. The inescapable presence of Harvard, and the desire to live up to his father's legacy as a Unitarian minister, Harvard Graduate , and Professor, played a major role in Cummings’ rebellious attitude towards his father’s traditional world. Cumming’s desire to find his own voice and reject societal…

Frost began to develop an interest in writing and poetry and his first poem was published in student magazine of Lawrence High School. He received his high school diploma in 1892 and during that year he started falling in love with poetry. In the year of 1894, he sold his first professional poem, out of the five he had printed, to The Independent for less than twenty dollars. His poem’s publishing was very successful and that inspired him to re-ask Elinor White to be his lawful wedded wife.…

Ezra Pound gathered the scattered experimenters of imagism in a group and published Des Imagistes in America in 1914. It was quickly followed by three annual Imagist Anthologies- Some Imagist Poets in 1915, 1916 and 1917 respectively. The Imagists announced some “six principles for themselves to practice- (1) to use the language of common speech, but to employ always the exact word, not the nearly exact, not merely the decorative word; (2) to create new rhythms- as the expressions of new moods…