Edwin Arlington Robinson

Poetry is an unusual way of telling a story. It can be used to express feeling or some type of moral or lesson. “Hazel tells Laverne”, by Katharyn Machan tells a unique story filled with nonfiction and fun. To combat this story Edwin Arlington Robinson wrote a more serious story based off of a man living in his town. This poem, “Richard Cory” sheds light on how the views of others towards a person can be so far from the truth. Both of these poems are very different but strangely correlate in a…

Perception is Reality A good artist knows that playing with people's perception is the easiest way to make them feel your desired outcome. A magician or con-artist will manipulate your ways of perceiving what's going on around you and your surroundings, while an artist may create a sculpture that changes depending on your stance, and perception in relativity to the art piece. These are examples of how fluid and fake human’s perception can be, and while these fun activities can be mildly…

Violence Influences American Literature Violence is something that drastically influences American Literature. Most people think of violence as a person physically hurting another person, but what most do not know is it can also mean something is wrong internally or has a wound from doing some kind of ordinary action. The suspense and rising action in books can come from a scene of violence. “Violence is one of the most personal and even intimate acts between human beings, but it can also be…

Literature has been around for many centuries, and each piece is either influenced by something, or has the ability to influence a single person, or an entire society. It is quite obvious to the eyes of a reader that pieces written during the Modern Era of literature reflect the time period of that in the Roaring Twenties, which was a time period in America where the rich were too wealthy, but their hearts were poor and filled with greed. These pieces also reflect the time period of the thirties…

warrio…” (Robinson 612) which shows that he wanted live in the Middle Ages. The “swords” and “steeds” show that he wants to live the life a knight who would go on dangerous and heroic adventures to lead an army under his command. He even declares that he would have the characteristics of a “warrior,” but he has no way of showing his qualities for modernization does approve of it. His lust for this medieval life continues as he “dreamed of Thebes and Camelot, and Priam’s neighbors” (Robinson…

Identity is a major part of any person, fictional character or not. Many people believe that you can create your own identity and feel happy with the persona that you’ve created for yourself, but many times it’s difficult to create a mask without leaving cracks that your real identity wants to come through. Instead of living the way you want to, you live a lie that even you may believe is true. Throughout both the Great Gatsby and Richard Corey many characters including Nick, Gatsby and Richard…

Interestingly, the article says she can compare with some of the very best poets, except the great poets like Robert Frost and Edwin Arlington Robinson, although the author does say Millay is one of the best woman poets of the time. Davison applauds Millay for her use of language and prose but acknowledges that while a talented poet, Millay can never be great because she is not a man (Davison…

Chapter 10 ?Mabel Daniels?s Place in American Composition? Mabel Daniels and her work mirror many of the important themes of her time, reflecting shifts in American society and culture from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. Profound and rapid changes in technology and lifestyle provoked a range of responses from embracing the avant-garde to resisting it. In Chapter 1 I argued Daniels?s importance to the history of American music. While many of her works are powerful and merit…

Background of Study Literature can be represented as a reflection of the relativity of social life that exists around us. Actually, the word ‘literature’ have changed their meaning over time. The lack of a definition, which could be applied to all works regarded as literature is not necessarily always be a bad thing. Many of the most useful words in all languages are useful precisely because they do not mention something very specific, but they identify a range of meanings and related to the…

“Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on” (Zeno of Citium). In the nineteenth century, new movements in literature were developed due to changes in society after the Civil War: Realism and Naturalism. The main intent of Realism was to exclude romantic and fantastic ideals in literature, interpolating what is real. Authors who describe themselves as Realists explain things without decorative language or sugar-coating events, and…