Poetry in the past years has become a focus on the craft and skill of what the poet is able to use while writing, which can create very beautiful poetry. However, a very strong form of poetry is the kind that relate to people and look into humanity of people along with their psychological state. A poet that was best at doing this is Galway Kinnell. Galway Kinnell is an exceptional poet that grew up in and lived in Rhode Island. He died in 2014 at the age of eighty seven years young. He had written poetry for over sixty-five years and has worked in teaching poetry at an enormous amount of colleges as a professor. In an interview, Kinnell got an interest in poetry from “ the sense of stagnation growing up in a decayed mill town in the Depression,
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This poem is about the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, where Kinnell was at New York City as a professor. He was one of the first to write about these events in poetry, and it stands as a reminder of the events, and still holds a bigger meaning. This is an excerpt of what Kinnell says he saw in his poem.
The plane screamed low down lower Fifth Avenue, lifted at the Arch, someone said, shaking the dog walkers in Washington Square Park, drove for the north tower, struck with a heavy thud,
(Kinnell, Towers)
This excerpt from the poem showed his view of the first plane going into the tower.
This poem is an exceptional written piece of Kinnell from the poetry book by Kinnell Strong is Your Hold. He has numerous poems written in this book, but the main piece of poetry was When the Towers Fell. According to critic Fred Dings, “When the Towers Fell…. is vintage Kinnell and superbly written”, (Web). The language he used is exceptional and is able to paint a visible picture with his writing.
Some with torn clothing, some bloodied some limping at top speed like children in a three-legged race, some half dragged, some intact in neat suits and dresses, they swarm, in silence, up the avenues, many dusted to a ghostly …show more content…
(Kinnell, Blackberry Eating)
In this part of the poem, Kinnell compares eating the blackberries to different words such as “strenghths” and “squinched” (Kinnell, Blackberry Eating. ) Using nature in his poetry shows the amount of love that Kinnell has for nature and an ability to use nature in his writing. He shows an amount of love and care in his writing similar to humans and how they love and care for one another. Additionally, Galway Kinnell is able to use nature to show characteristics of humans by using human beings in his writing. He is able to depict a negative image in those that are younger in the poem Wait. that enormous emptiness carved out of such tiny beings as we are asks to be filled; the need for the new love is faithfulness to the old.
(Kinnell, Wait.)
Before this excerpt, Kinnell shows different situations that happen everyday, and if someone waits, those things will become more intriguing than they were before. Kinnell shows how younger people are anxious for the next thing to happen, and when those things that everyday happen, younger people do not show an interest. In the society of today, this is very true to the younger generation. This shows how Galway Kinnell is able to use nature in his poetry to reflect on psychological human
This poem is about the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, where Kinnell was at New York City as a professor. He was one of the first to write about these events in poetry, and it stands as a reminder of the events, and still holds a bigger meaning. This is an excerpt of what Kinnell says he saw in his poem.
The plane screamed low down lower Fifth Avenue, lifted at the Arch, someone said, shaking the dog walkers in Washington Square Park, drove for the north tower, struck with a heavy thud,
(Kinnell, Towers)
This excerpt from the poem showed his view of the first plane going into the tower.
This poem is an exceptional written piece of Kinnell from the poetry book by Kinnell Strong is Your Hold. He has numerous poems written in this book, but the main piece of poetry was When the Towers Fell. According to critic Fred Dings, “When the Towers Fell…. is vintage Kinnell and superbly written”, (Web). The language he used is exceptional and is able to paint a visible picture with his writing.
Some with torn clothing, some bloodied some limping at top speed like children in a three-legged race, some half dragged, some intact in neat suits and dresses, they swarm, in silence, up the avenues, many dusted to a ghostly …show more content…
(Kinnell, Blackberry Eating)
In this part of the poem, Kinnell compares eating the blackberries to different words such as “strenghths” and “squinched” (Kinnell, Blackberry Eating. ) Using nature in his poetry shows the amount of love that Kinnell has for nature and an ability to use nature in his writing. He shows an amount of love and care in his writing similar to humans and how they love and care for one another. Additionally, Galway Kinnell is able to use nature to show characteristics of humans by using human beings in his writing. He is able to depict a negative image in those that are younger in the poem Wait. that enormous emptiness carved out of such tiny beings as we are asks to be filled; the need for the new love is faithfulness to the old.
(Kinnell, Wait.)
Before this excerpt, Kinnell shows different situations that happen everyday, and if someone waits, those things will become more intriguing than they were before. Kinnell shows how younger people are anxious for the next thing to happen, and when those things that everyday happen, younger people do not show an interest. In the society of today, this is very true to the younger generation. This shows how Galway Kinnell is able to use nature in his poetry to reflect on psychological human