Mark Twain
In the late 1800’s American realism began. People started writing about real life problems that they thought needed to be said. They wrote about what other people were too afraid to say, and they were the voices for the people who did not have one. Some were even seen as the fathers of American Realism one of which is Mark Twain. Mark twain was born on November 30, 1835, and is a world-renowned writer, literary critic, lecturer, and steamboat pilot, and is most commonly known for his books the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but he is also wrote poems one of which is “An Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots”. Mark twains poem, “ An Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots” is …show more content…
Mark twain talks about how the young man was very special and how a lot of people mourned his death. No one really knows why he wrote, but they assume that it was because of all of the lose he went through during he life that compelled him to write “An Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots”. The poem starts out like “And did young Stephen sicken, And did young Stephen die? And did the sad hearts thicken, And did the mourners cry?” (Poetry foundation 1). Twain takes you on a journey and its kind of like a show because he uses very descriptive words so that you can understand it, and also so that you visual what is happening in the poem as you read it and really understand what going on. That’s the really great thing about Marks writing and the fact that he didn’t try to sugar coat anything, and make it out to be less than it was because he was a
In the late 1800’s American realism began. People started writing about real life problems that they thought needed to be said. They wrote about what other people were too afraid to say, and they were the voices for the people who did not have one. Some were even seen as the fathers of American Realism one of which is Mark Twain. Mark twain was born on November 30, 1835, and is a world-renowned writer, literary critic, lecturer, and steamboat pilot, and is most commonly known for his books the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but he is also wrote poems one of which is “An Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots”. Mark twains poem, “ An Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots” is …show more content…
Mark twain talks about how the young man was very special and how a lot of people mourned his death. No one really knows why he wrote, but they assume that it was because of all of the lose he went through during he life that compelled him to write “An Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots”. The poem starts out like “And did young Stephen sicken, And did young Stephen die? And did the sad hearts thicken, And did the mourners cry?” (Poetry foundation 1). Twain takes you on a journey and its kind of like a show because he uses very descriptive words so that you can understand it, and also so that you visual what is happening in the poem as you read it and really understand what going on. That’s the really great thing about Marks writing and the fact that he didn’t try to sugar coat anything, and make it out to be less than it was because he was a