Book of Ezra

Humans often find themselves ignorant of time’s passage and the consequences of their earthly errors. Robert Penn Warren’s poem, “Evening Hawk,” explores this concept and presents the idea that nature, as represented by the hawk, possesses a harsh judgement of humanity and its mistakes. The opening of the poem introduces an image of a hawk to observe the passage of time and human fallacies. Warren’s use of vivid language, both literal and figurative, conveys the mood and meaning of the work as a…

His two most famous works The Enormous Room and Tulips and Chimneys were all based on real life events, told through the eyes of Cummings. In his first book, The Enormous Room, Cummings tells his real life account of being imprisoned in France during the first world war. Although Cummings retells a very dark time in an internment camp, he shows a very unique and cheerful side of imprisonment. Later in…

Robert Graves was a soldier in World War I; after the war, he became a full time author, critic, and poet. He was born into an upper middle class family near London, United Kingdom in 1895. His father, Alfred Graves, a scholar and poet, and his mother, Amalie von Ranke Graves, a strongly religious woman, were great influences to him. He was a superior student, and received a scholarship to attend a charter school at the age of 12. When he graduated high school in 1913, he was awarded a…

This arose due to his disregard for censorship of his poems. An example of this stems from Whitman’s sixth edition of Leaves of Grass was the first book to be banned in Boston. This was based on the Boston district attorney’s opinion that the majority of the edition was pornographic and required censorship (Loving 6). Even prior to his sixth edition Whitman received controversy because of the inclusion…

Mia Yi Ms. Beskenis/ Mrs. Manley Pd 2 13 May 2016 Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. As one of America’s most respected poet, Wallace Stevens’s rich and colorful life story, impact from early traditional writers and his parents, and his unique writing style all contributed to…

Robert Frost Robert Frost once said “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” Robert Frost was an American poet His unique work is loved by many people. Frost is a popular poet, and was honored frequently during his lifetime and received four pulitzer prizes. One of Robert Frost’s most famous poems is The Road Not Taken. Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco. He lived with his father, William Prescott Frost Jr., his mother, Isabelle…

Poets Ezra Pound and Allen Ginsberg have both expressed their feelings and views of fellow poet Walt Whitman, whether through a form of contempt or admiration, they both have drawn inspiration from Whitman's works and incorporated it into their own. Ezra Pound,, disliked or as Pound would say, “Detested” Whitman for quite sometime. Although he felt this way towards Whitman, in his poem “A Pact”, he goes on to say how Whitman “broke the new wood”, and that “now is a time for carving”. This shows…

Why is E.E. cummings so interesting? Can it be because of his different way of writing? E.E. cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894, he studied at Harvard University. When he went to Paris to join a World War 1 ambulance corps, he saw one of Picasso's shows, after seeing the show, he got interested in poetry and cubism. How does E.E. cummings use vision and hearing to create meaning? E.E. cummings creates meaning in his poetry by using visual techniques and auditory techniques.…

Robert Frost Modernism and a rich personal background had an enormous influence on the writing of Robert Frost, and are showcased in some of his most famous poems. Robert Frost was born on March 27, 1874, and his life was all about nature and the messages God sent through it. He wondered about these tiny marvels of nature and sought deeper meanings from them. For example, “The Road Not Taken”, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, and “Choose Something Like a Star”…

Introduction Jacob Ezra Katz officially changed his name to Ezra Jack Keats in 1947 (123). The reason for the name change was because of the anti-Semitic attitudes that were prevalent in the U.S. after the end of World War II (122). Keats familiarity with discrimination made him much more sympathetic to others with similar experiences, and it would be these experiences that would cast him into the celebrated role of author and illustrator. His work served to literally illustrate an under…