Ezra Jack Keats

T.S Eliot wrote a poem, “Preludes,” which could be a critic of modernity as well as industrialism. Furthermore, the suffering it brings. This is included by first describing the setting in which the poem takes place on line 6 Eliot writes, “The grimy scraps,” and line 7, “Of withered leaves about your feet,” show it. Eliot uses words like grimy and withered to show a setting that is bleak. Then, in the third stanza of the poem Eliot switches to a second person point of view. That means the…

“The world is mud- luscious and puddle - wonderful” (E.E. Cummings). Edward Estlin Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. He was a painter and a poet and he studied in the University of Harvard, where he was fascinated by two schools of art Impression and Cubism. How does E.E. Cummings use vision and auditory to create meaning?. E.E. Cummings creates meaning in his poetry by using visual techniques and auditory techniques. To begin with, E.E. Cummings creates meaning in his…

The poem Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson is the best poem in the world. The poem is not only delightful and cheery, it includes many literary devices to further the effect of the poem. To begin, the poem is a couplet and follows the rhyming pattern of AABB. The meter of the poem is typically eight syllables, however, there are some lines that extend longer than eight syllables and some that are shorter than eight syllables. Though not evident the first time one reads this poem, the word…

The author E.E. Cummings was best known for his odd way of mixing up his words and spelling in his way of writing like in particular. “anyone lived in a pretty how town” what will be looked into is his form of Tones, Symbols, as well as his imagery. “anyone lived in a pretty how town” meaning that the person anyone he could live in this town because anyone including himself could live in this town Mr. Cummings sets the tone that there is nothing different or unique about the people or this…

Robert Frost is a famous American poet of the 19th century who was admired for his work. Frost left an imprint in the world by developing poems that let readers experience feelings through words. He usually focus his poems on experiences that a person would face regularly. Though, Frost includes numerous metaphors that outlined his experiences and environments he lived in. He expressed his feelings through the the use of figurative language. The poet compared himself to a person, place, or thing…

“O the sun comes up-up-up in the opening”. E.E Cummings was born October 14 1894 in Cambridge, MA. E.E Cummings started to write poetry at a young age after that he went to Harvard, he was encouraged to do poetry by a cubist painter known as Pablo Picasso. E.E Cummings was also a painter he was also encouraged by Pablo Picasso. First of all, he used auditory and visual techniques to create meaning. The question is how does he use those techniques to create meaning. When he…

Document “Waste Land” define the problem of environment and mostly people that weren’t “Lucky” enough and social class differences. There are lots of people work as “pickers” which they pick up the recyclable materials from the Landfill trash and make money based on these “trash” and directly help the environment. One of the artist growing up in a very poor family and now have become success, which he wants to help others and give it back to the society in a form of art. He went to the landfill…

Many things in life are divided by two sides that oppose each other. Some are optimistic and some pessimistic. People have diverse thoughts about the tone of Robert Frost’s poems. The poems of Robert Frost are not as pessimistic as some believe. The poems are actually bright and show the good parts of life. Robert Frost’s poems show optimism through poems of love, nature, and a motive to keep moving forward. Love is the first point of optimism in the poems. Robert Frost has many poems showing…

Have you ever fall in love when you were kid? Now imagine that you are in the 19th century somewhere in china, and this is where the poem takes place a small village called Chokan. Love story is named “ The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” by Ezra Pound. The poet tries to show her feeling while writing the letter. At the beginning she starts with the describing her first meeting with her husband, than she starts writing how her life is changing periodically and she ends poem with a sad tone.…

A modernist by trade, William Carlos Williams works with other artists in an effort to start and perpetuate a new movement. Working within the constraints that focused on breaking free from past restrictions and conscriptions with an eye towards current events and cultural influences, Williams is building something beautifully simplistic in his poetry. Towards the beginning of his efforts in poetry Williams’ underlines the fears associated with the cultural change to modernism, and the prevalent…