Ezra Pound

while also writing early in the mornings and creating many of the poems that became famous later on. In 1912, Frost and his family sailed across the Atlantic to Great Britain, where he became close acquaintances with Edward Thomas, T.E. Hulme, and Ezra Pound. While in England, surrounded by his poetic peers, Frost composed some of his best works.(Poem Hunter, no p.) Many of Frost’s poems have an underlying dark theme due to the tragedies he had faced throughout his life; Frost uses the nature as…

In the course of literature of the twentieth century, Hemingway had made a significant contribution and a distinct change especially in the field of fiction .The author’s style which was not accepted at the beginning has become a school in itself. Hemingway’s personal experiences of the hard realities of the age have revolutionized his ideas and attitudes which have been dramatized in his writings. He experienced the violence of war and its resulting chaos and thus, his writings have discussed…

The post war disillusionment of authors Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. E. Cummings, and Ezra Pound can be seen in Chandler’s Farewell, My Lovely, as Marlowe realizes the corruption he is fighting is not a criminal, but society itself (Moss). In this way, Chandler’s characters mirror the undertow of corruption still prevalent in society today…

had the American poets. According to Cary Nelson, the modern American poetry is “unexcelled in its richness, inventiveness, and diversity”, and those characteristic are what makes modern poetry succeed. Some of the American poets (Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound) even come back to Europe and act as mentors for writers from all around the world, other remain home, in America, but their influence was none the less important:…

character traits as dangerous. Provincialism is a foreign word to most, but something we have in all of us. The best way to interpret provincialism is as narrow mindedness; this could be in culturally, intellectually or simply due to ignorance. Ezra Pound, an American poet that pioneered the modernist movement, declared provincialism “the enemy.” He penned specifically regarding provincialism in grade school, “The student has become accustomed first to receiving his main ideas without question;…

“The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden, and based on the fortune of Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and entrepreneur” (“Nobel Prizes and Laureates”). The artist, Bob Dylan, was the first musician to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016 for his influential music on social issues in the early 60’s. Bob Dylan’s winning shocked many states Sisario, “Mr. Dylan, 75, is the first…

In literature, the development is connected with the works of (among others) Eliot, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, H.D., Franz Kafka, Knut Hamsun, Henry James, Katherine Mansfield, and others. In their endeavour to divert from the stylish weight of the realist novel, these writers presented a mixed bag of artistic strategies that includes, the radical interruption of direct stream of narratives; the dissatisfaction of customary desires concerning solidarity…

He uses “To Frank O’Hara” in My Sad Self, “For Michal Brownstein and Dick Gallup” in Nagasaki Days, “To Ezra Pound” in War Profit Litany, and finally “To my Dear Aunt Rose” in Aunt Rose. This technique is very interesting. It feels as though this gives the poem more of a personal touch, despite the fact that it isn’t addressed to anyone who would be reading…

Ernest Hemingway was a very busy and outgoing person as an older man and had huge ambition as a young adult but most of his younger years were spent following after whatever his parents wanted for him. His father was an obstetrician with a great passion for the outdoors, hunting and fishing. His mother was a singer with a voice built for the opera, at the time of her and Mr. Hemingway's marriage she was giving private vocal lessons in Chicago and bringing in a small fortune of $1,000 per month…

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I-I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the different.” (“The Road Not Taken”) The road symbolizes how the individual had to evaluate and determine his decisions. Making his decision was a major decisive and extensive moment during his life span. He wrote just about ten books in his lifetime that many people admired. American poet and journalist Robert Frost depicts aspects of his life and philosophy on man’s choices, truth in nature, and…