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Sophia Eddy Ms.Austin English 10c 12 March 2015 Robert Frost The poetry of Robert Frost, which was influenced by personal background and by the Romantic literary period, has contributed to the American literary heritage greatly. Robert Frost was born on March 26,1874 in San Francisco, California. His parents were Isabel Moodie and William Prescott Frost. His father was an alcoholic and died of tuberculosis when…

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.…

Edward Estlin Cummings: The Master of Art Genealogy and geography, along with numerous other circumstances molded Edward Estlin Cummings into an innovative poet and painter of the modernism movement. The inescapable presence of Harvard, and the desire to live up to his father's legacy as a Unitarian minister, Harvard Graduate , and Professor, played a major role in Cummings’ rebellious attitude towards his father’s traditional world. Cumming’s desire to find his own voice and reject societal…

Ezra Pound gathered the scattered experimenters of imagism in a group and published Des Imagistes in America in 1914. It was quickly followed by three annual Imagist Anthologies- Some Imagist Poets in 1915, 1916 and 1917 respectively. The Imagists announced some “six principles for themselves to practice- (1) to use the language of common speech, but to employ always the exact word, not the nearly exact, not merely the decorative word; (2) to create new rhythms- as the expressions of new moods…

life. It was from his very own works that would be able to analyze complex social and philosophical themes. Regardless of Frost’s ongoing popularity, he is still seen as an outsider in the academy, where more “complex” and “contemporary” poets like Ezra Pound or…

of his most famous poems, “Richard Cory”. Edwin Arlington Robinson was a poet in the Modernist era significant to American poetry because he described such dramatic and vivid scenes, such as “Richard Cory”, by using reticence and simplicity. "Poet Ezra Pound is credited for bringing the techniques of literary modernism to the United States in the early 20th century"(Modernism, 894). However, the Modernist Era arose in the 20th century and throughout WWII. Modernism was inspired by the…

Eliot’s The Waste Land is often a confusing and difficult poem to understand. However, in terms of its style and content, it is clear that the poem speaks about the decay of the periods culture. The Waste Land is a eulogy to the decaying society of modern Europe post-World War One. Eliot’s use of fragmentation made him infamous in the literary world; and it is through this use of fragmentation that we the learned find it very daunting to appreciate. The poem consists of five sections, all of…

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…

Portrait d'une Femme is a poem written by Ezra Pound in 1912. In this poem, Pound describes a woman, almost strictly, through her relationships with men. During this time, women were expected to spend most of their days at home or with their husbands. In Portrait d'une Femme, Pound examines a woman from an abstract angle for the time that this piece was written. The woman’s lack of personal qualities raises questions about societal views of women at the time. Portrait d'une Femme can be analyzed…

Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken” shows his capability of writing his poems about life, as if he was familiar with the origins of the earth. In fact, Robert has lived in various farms throughout his life: Frost has experience in nature’s environment. While living on the Derry farm he was able to write great poems, but at the age of thirty-eight he sold his farm to move to England with his family, and there he arrived with three completed books: two were published in England (Voices and…