Brooke Viselli
ENG 2010
Chris Tysh
March 28th 2015
The Beauty of a Lunch Break in New York Frank O’Hara is a famous poet specially known for all of the poems he wrote on his lunch breaks. He has a book titled “Lunch Poems” consisting of his entire lunchtime poem collection. Amongst this collaboration lies a special poem named “The Day Lady Died”. Unlike all of his other poems, this one is about the death of Billie Holiday. This was unusual amidst his collection because the majority of the poems were about the occurrences over his lunchtime, rather than the death of a famous person. O’Hara is eminent for playing a huge part in the New York School period. The New York School is not a literal school, but more so a group that consists of brilliant poets, painters, musicians, and dancers that all followed the insights of surrealism, jazz, abstracts expressionism, movement, and paintings. O’Hara is greatly influenced by all of these factors throughout all of his pieces, and he makes it quite obvious. His poems are very personal, real, and filled with stimulus from the jazz years. O’Hara was born on March 27th, 1926 in Maryland. He grew up in Massachusetts and later moved to New York City. He fell in love with the city and everything it had to offer. There are multiple …show more content…
He mentions Hesoid, who is a famous Greek poet, drawings by the French painter Bonnard, as well as Richmond Lattimore and Bremdan Dehan and their new plays. The reader may not necessarily know who all of these people are and the fact that they have a direct relation to the arts, but after digging deeper and researching examples of their works, it is apparent that O’Hara was greatly involved with many aspects of the arts. Frank O’Hara contextualizes his work beyond what meets the eye, as well as making it serve a definite purpose. His ability to tie death and the power of his knowledge about the arts really compliments his poem “The Day Lady Died”
ENG 2010
Chris Tysh
March 28th 2015
The Beauty of a Lunch Break in New York Frank O’Hara is a famous poet specially known for all of the poems he wrote on his lunch breaks. He has a book titled “Lunch Poems” consisting of his entire lunchtime poem collection. Amongst this collaboration lies a special poem named “The Day Lady Died”. Unlike all of his other poems, this one is about the death of Billie Holiday. This was unusual amidst his collection because the majority of the poems were about the occurrences over his lunchtime, rather than the death of a famous person. O’Hara is eminent for playing a huge part in the New York School period. The New York School is not a literal school, but more so a group that consists of brilliant poets, painters, musicians, and dancers that all followed the insights of surrealism, jazz, abstracts expressionism, movement, and paintings. O’Hara is greatly influenced by all of these factors throughout all of his pieces, and he makes it quite obvious. His poems are very personal, real, and filled with stimulus from the jazz years. O’Hara was born on March 27th, 1926 in Maryland. He grew up in Massachusetts and later moved to New York City. He fell in love with the city and everything it had to offer. There are multiple …show more content…
He mentions Hesoid, who is a famous Greek poet, drawings by the French painter Bonnard, as well as Richmond Lattimore and Bremdan Dehan and their new plays. The reader may not necessarily know who all of these people are and the fact that they have a direct relation to the arts, but after digging deeper and researching examples of their works, it is apparent that O’Hara was greatly involved with many aspects of the arts. Frank O’Hara contextualizes his work beyond what meets the eye, as well as making it serve a definite purpose. His ability to tie death and the power of his knowledge about the arts really compliments his poem “The Day Lady Died”