Ezra Jack Keats

Edward Estlin Cummings, a 20th century poet, painter, playwright, and novelist, impacted literature greatly. Nearly all of his poems challenged the accepted rules of writing through formatting and grammar choices. The topics of the poems created the most controversy, especially the poems he wrote focusing on nature, religion, and his sexuality. Due to his strict religious upbringing, Cummings conveys his inner strife and difficulties forming connections through his eccentric writing style.…

E.E. Cummings Born in October of 1894, Edward Estlin Cummings began writing poetry as the very early age of 10. With the support of his very liberal parents, e.e. was encouraged to develop his writing and explore his creative gifts. (Nicholas Everett, Modern American Poetry, 1994) Among writing poetry, Cummings was an avid painter, studying art in Paris after the First World War. Cummings was married three times, his first marriage ended in divorce and his former wife took their young daughter…

Exercise 2: Crux Buster, Harrison’s “On Not Being Milton” In Tony Harrison’s poem “On Not Being Milton” he writes, “my Cahier d’un retour au pays natal” (3). According to the footnote, the French phrase comes from the title of Aime Cesaire’s poem about colonized West Indian people and a journey back to their homeland. The translated version would read, “Notebook of a return to one’s land of birth.” The first two lines of this poem set the theme of the speaker returning to his roots in the form…

Pablo Neruda was born as Ricardo Eliecer Neftali Reyes Basoalto in Parral, Chile, on July 12, 1904. Neruda’s father was a railway employee and his mother was a teacher. However, his mother shortly died after he was born. Later on, Neruda and his father moved to Temuco, where Neruda would spend his childhood and his father would remarry. While living in Temuco, Neruda met Gabriela Mistral, who was head of the girls’ secondary school. Gabriela Mistral soon took a liking to Neruda. Moreover,…

Frost began to develop an interest in writing and poetry and his first poem was published in student magazine of Lawrence High School. He received his high school diploma in 1892 and during that year he started falling in love with poetry. In the year of 1894, he sold his first professional poem, out of the five he had printed, to The Independent for less than twenty dollars. His poem’s publishing was very successful and that inspired him to re-ask Elinor White to be his lawful wedded wife.…

Brilliant. Innovative. And Well diversified. When a man finds inspiration throughout his lifetime only to later realize he would be a man that leaves a legacy as one of the famous American poets. I would like to introduce you to a man named Edward Estlin Cummings, one of America's innovative, and influential poets of his time. Inspiring readers to understand the concept of originality in his poetry by demonstrating how he used influences from his childhood experiences, imagism, and concrete…

The Beginning of Rosalind Franklin Rosalind Franklin was a female chemist and physician (X-Ray Crystallographer). She helped the world understand the molecular structures of viruses, DNA, Graphite, Coal, and RNA. She was born July 25, 1920 in Notting Hill, London. She had a very large family with four siblings, and her family was able to take care of themselves. They were also highly involved in public social works. Then however, in the year of 1958 Rosalind’s life had come to an end. She died…

Realism Edna, from The Awakening, is an example of sexuality being treated directly in Realist literature. In past times sexuality would be only alluded to or unused altogether as a way to show the purity of the women. Edna has three men that are potential sexual partners; one she is married to, one she loves, and one she has no more than a shallow interest in. After the one she has little interest in, kisses the back of her hand and leaves “She felt somewhat like a woman who in a moment…

Expressing Communication Through Literary Devices in “Araby,” “Why I Live at the P.O,” and “Hills Like White Elephants Authors use literary devices in order to convey a certain attitude, feeling, or meaning to the story. Literary devices, when used effectively, create layers and intricacies to stories that not only make the stories more interesting, but also give the stories much more depth that can be studied. James Joyce’s “Araby,” Eudora Welty’s “Why I Live at the P.O.,” and Ernest…

Robert Frost once said, “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” This is an extremely relatable quote when talking about Frost’s poetry because his home is the setting and background for most of his poems. Frost was named after the famous Confederate General Robert E. Lee. At one point in his life, Frost had debated whether or not he should commit suicide, which will be discussed later in this essay. In addition, Robert Frost, who had lost his father at…