Ezra Pound

Robert Langill 2/1/17 Frost Paper Rough draft Period 1 Robert Frost's upbringing and life has a lot to do with his dark and witty writing. Throughout Frost's entire life, he was hurt by the loss of someone close to him, which contributed to his dark writing style. These sad and mortifying events started at a young age and continued to get worse. He was born on March 26 in 1874 in San Francisco California. When he was 11 he experienced his first loss when his dad died of tuberculosis, and his…

Ali Ahmad Said Esber, known in the Western world as Adūnīs wrote A Time Between Ashes and Roses in Arabic in 1971. Shawkat Toorawa translated it in 2004. Adūnīs is a Syrian poet, essayist, translator and a literary critic, and he was the most controversial literary figure in the Arab world during the second half of the twentieth century. His poems received stern criticism by many Arab literary scholars and religious entities, resulting in death threats. He was forced into exile to Lebanon…

Alice Walker was born February 9, 1944 in the small town of Eatonton, Georgia to the parents of William Lee Walker and Minnie Lou Grant Walker. Walker’s parents were sharecroppers, like many African Americans, which sometimes made feeding a large family a challenge. While playing with her brothers, she accidentally got shot in the eye with a BB gun, resulting in permanent blindness. Walker has considered this accident the “catalyst for her retreat into the world of books” (Gillespie,…

This sort of writing tend to help writers to sort out their emotions and put a priority on the ones that affect us the most. In Ezra Pound’s poem, “The River-Merchant’s Wife: a Letter”, I felt a sense of hope and expectation through his simple, yet powerful style of writing. Pound uses simple words and specific details when he writes, “At sixteen you departed, /You went into far Ku-to-yen, by the river of swirling eddies, /And you have been gone five months…

An author flinches as a memory begins to resurface. Recalling the painful experience as if it were happening again, he transcribes it onto paper with each agonizing keystroke. When examining Ernest Hemingway’s works compared to his life experiences, the correlation between them is obvious. Hemingway found his inspiration in the most unlikely of places: from a lake in Michigan where he spent his summers as a boy to the medical wards during World War I. However, his experiences brought him to the…

The criticism of are based on the artists personal opinions There have been various ways to judge and criticize art throughout history, from the point of view of the painting and the voice of a story to the synchronization of the instruments of a song but never by the personal views of the artist themselves. The practice of art criticism is a practice that is meant to be unbiased to every form of art; they should be able to see a work of art they consider good based on the painting itself not…

Timothy Findley’s, Famous Last is a metafictional view of the events leading up to and during the Second World War. In the novel Timothy Findley represents the lower, middle, and upper class through the characters Quinn, Freyberg, and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley respectively. Society’s lower class is represented in the novel through a soldier named Quinn by his forgetfulness and the constant abuse he receives from his commanding officer captain Freyberg; Quinn personifies the lower class by providing…

The prominent figure of American century writers was that of the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald who was born in 1896 he rose to fame as a speaker of the jazz age. He was, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald had the good fortune and the misfortune of being a writer who gathered up an era to greatness all by himself. Fitzgerald grew up spoiled with wealth, privilege and of his family’s prohibiting of the social setting. He was named after Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to the…

his time in Italy during World War I. Majority of Hemingway’s novels and short stories are based on his own life (Yannuzzi 27). After the war, Ernest felt lost and moved to Paris along with many other prominent authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein to be apart of the “Lost Generation.” The Lost Generation described the attitude of post World War I writers who believed the war had crushed their hopes and dreams. Hemingway’s first novel The Sun Also Rises examined the…

Karl Beck son and Arthur Gang define the term “Synaethesia” as the intermingling of sensations; the sensing for example of certain sounds through colors or odors .(Beck son and Ganz,209) .Fogle , while amplifying Professor June E. Downey”s concept of synasthesia ,hints at the possibility of visual participation in some of the sensation clusters concerned : “ The function of all poetic imagery is to order ,relate, and unify desperate modes of physical, mental and emotional experience…