Better Than Ezra

There seems to always be big important people in everything. For example, these people exist in sports, businesses, and even poetry. The American poet, William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), was one of the four major American poets or in other words, one of the big guys. Williams always loved literature; however, he went to medical school in hopes of becoming a physician. Despite his schooling, Williams still enjoyed writing. With his love of writing and physician degree, he really had a huge…

The poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” by E.E. Cummings describes the life of a man who the townspeople do not care for because they obsess over improving their own lives with insignificant objects. The man lives, falls deeply in love, and eventually surrenders to death. Yet, the townspeople pay no attention to his death because they “are busy folk,” running around infatuated with things that do not matter (line 27). Little do they know that death will soon take them also. E. E. Cummings,…

prioritizing some abstract ideas and sophisticated words. The most important point in the poem is the picture of the farm that arises in front of the reader and is created by only 14 words. This simple and still engaging scene on the farm is, however, more than just a description of the rainy day, considering the sense that the author has placed in his visual images and the form of the poem. First of all, the situation that the reader can imagine after reading the poem is rather vivid and…

poet wrote the poems from The Tower between 1912 and 1927 and the collection was published in 1928. Most of these poems have a common theme: violence. Indeed, they were written during a difficult and violent period of the History of Ireland. In less than ten years happened: the Easter Rising in 1916 then the War of independence and the Civil War. However, after all these events, the Free State was born. W.B. Yeats was very influenced by the historical…

GENERAL ENGLISH Continuous Internal Assessment-III SUMMARY Author Edmund John Millington Synge (16 April 1871 – 24 March 1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer and collector of folklore. He was a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival and was one of the co-founders of the Abbey Theatre. Although he came from a privileged Anglo-Irish background, Synge's writings are mainly concerned with the world of the Roman Catholic peasants of rural Ireland and with what he…

Sierra Crites Allison Kirkman, Instructor AP Literature and Composition/Poetry Final Essay 05 February 2018 Vivid Imagery, Diction, and Tone in Wilfred Owen's "Dulce Et Decorum Est" Wilfred Edward Salter Owen is one of Britain's most famous war poets, despite his few published works in his short lifetime ("Wilfred Owen"). Born on March 18, 1893, in Oswestry, Shropshire, Owen lived a remarkably uninteresting life. He spent his first few years after graduation in technical work. Owen, interested…

Author T.S. Eliot’s Influence on American Literary History Author T.S. Eliot, was an American-English poet, playwriter, literary critic, an editor and was a major contributor and leader of the Modernist movement in poetry. From his works like “The Waste Land” and then the what some call sequel “The Hollow Men,” Eliot’s style of writing not only had a huge influence on American literary history but also influenced many other writers such as Derek Walcott and Kamau Brathwaite. After reading some…

Three quarters of a century have passed since the death of Irish writer James Joyce, and while he is today regarded amongst the literati as the quintessential Modernist writer, and one of the giants of Western literature, we cannot fault Eliot for his division; he could not then have known the tremendous and unquestionable influence of Joyce on the corpus of English language literature and the philosophy of the Modernist Project. Considered from the perspective of the established Western Canon,…

Arising out of a rebellious mood, the late 19th and early 20th century was a time where many writers broke away from tradition by using modernism to take a radical approach on the way society viewed modern literature (Modernism/literature.com). Experimentation and individualism became virtues, where before they were looked down upon. Modernism was set in motion after a series of cultural shocks. The first of these great shocks was the Great War, known now as World War One. At the time, this “War…

Verlaine also was a symbolist who added a great contribution to the development of symbolism. He was more concerned with mood rather than meaning, and he believed himself the most powerful of all the decadent, that was clear when he quotes “I am the empire at the end of the decadence”. Paul was imbued by the works of baudlére especially in his work “the flower of evil” that encouraged him to write, and he was also considered a decadent. Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud as decadents reacted to…