“Everything is bicycle.” Stephen Crane was an unusual man. From his large, unruly moustache to his uncommonly formatted poetry, he didn't shape his life based on the expectations of society. He stood out, pursued his passions, and shaped both history and American literature as we know it! During the late 1800’s, when Crane's writing career was at its peak, most readers were looking for heroic stories full of natures beauty and unlikely heroes to come save the day. Luckily for his career, Crane was able to deliver. Growing up, Stephen's education was mostly conducted from home, and he knew how to read by age four. Due to this accelerated learning, he quickly discovered his passion for writing, which molded the entire remainder of his life.
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Canfield Reisman, expresses her views of Stephen Crane in an article entitled “Stephen Crane Poetry: American Poets Analysis”. This criticism states that despite Crane's masterful writing career, his poetry was found to be severely lacking in multiple aspects. She states that although he produced his own style of writing, “the cost to the quality of his lines was great” (Reisman). This author believes that Crane failed utterly in his effort to produce poetry, and instead left the world with a rather lamentable collection of jumbled words. She implies that his works lacked emotional connection and coherent messages. In reality, the poetic endeavors of Mr. Crane managed to avoid the most traditional formats while retaining the natural simplistic beauty of poetry in its rawest form. His views and ideas are expressed with a refreshingly odd style and personality. In his poem Should The Wide World Roll Away, he expresses the deep feeling of one in love. “Should the wide world roll away / Leaving black terror / Limitless night, / Nor God, nor man, nor place to stand / Would be to me essential / If thou and thy white arms were there / And the fall to doom a long way.” This poem clearly conveys a heartfelt message of devotion and longing, with a strong emotional inspiration. Another of his poems, known as I Saw A Man Pursuing The Horizon, depicts a rather clear storyline. “I saw a man pursuing the horizon; / Round and round they sped. / I was disturbed at …show more content…
However, Stephen Crane chose to reject the common expectancies surrounding poetry. In A Man Said To The Universe, he avoids hiding the meaning and instead openly appreciates the fact that the universe does not owe any man anything just for existing. Far from merely preaching about it, Crane acted. The man never expected life to hand him anything, and fought for every inch of his own success, even when that fight led him into the very clutches of
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Canfield Reisman, expresses her views of Stephen Crane in an article entitled “Stephen Crane Poetry: American Poets Analysis”. This criticism states that despite Crane's masterful writing career, his poetry was found to be severely lacking in multiple aspects. She states that although he produced his own style of writing, “the cost to the quality of his lines was great” (Reisman). This author believes that Crane failed utterly in his effort to produce poetry, and instead left the world with a rather lamentable collection of jumbled words. She implies that his works lacked emotional connection and coherent messages. In reality, the poetic endeavors of Mr. Crane managed to avoid the most traditional formats while retaining the natural simplistic beauty of poetry in its rawest form. His views and ideas are expressed with a refreshingly odd style and personality. In his poem Should The Wide World Roll Away, he expresses the deep feeling of one in love. “Should the wide world roll away / Leaving black terror / Limitless night, / Nor God, nor man, nor place to stand / Would be to me essential / If thou and thy white arms were there / And the fall to doom a long way.” This poem clearly conveys a heartfelt message of devotion and longing, with a strong emotional inspiration. Another of his poems, known as I Saw A Man Pursuing The Horizon, depicts a rather clear storyline. “I saw a man pursuing the horizon; / Round and round they sped. / I was disturbed at …show more content…
However, Stephen Crane chose to reject the common expectancies surrounding poetry. In A Man Said To The Universe, he avoids hiding the meaning and instead openly appreciates the fact that the universe does not owe any man anything just for existing. Far from merely preaching about it, Crane acted. The man never expected life to hand him anything, and fought for every inch of his own success, even when that fight led him into the very clutches of