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Song of Myself written by Walt Whitman celebrates life and how people can become one with nature. Whitman shows how happy life can be if you take the world and look at its beauty. Whitman’s poem takes readers through many settings, time points and viewpoints. While the setting for the love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock written by T.S Eliot is about a middle-aged man in a big dirty city who views life as though it has nothing to offer but boredom, anxiety, and death. Prufrock shows life can be…

Allen Ginsberg, along with a few of his close friends, founded the movement that we know today as the Beat Generation. Ginsberg wrote about many topics, including gay rights, the decriminalization of drugs, free speech, and the general perversion of America’s political system. He wrote directly from his experience of being a homosexual man living in a time of challenging the traditional authorities and rules that once governed our lives. Ginsberg never wondered if what he wrote was too raw or…

“America” by Allen Ginsberg is a free verse about a rant on America. He asks a question “America when will we end the human war? / Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb. / I don’t feel good don’t bother me” (Ginsberg). Ginsberg is relating back to World War I and II and how he hated it. He seems like the type of guy that does not like war, nor the weapons that were used during that time. In addition, he goes on saying “Your machinery is too much for me.” (Ginsberg). In America, there are a lot of…

Robert Frost, the biography of a great mind. Robert Frost was a leading American poet in the 20th - century poets and a four time winner of the Pulitzer Prize (Brit Encyclopedia 12). He actually became a celebrity in his time, and our nearly official poet of the white house. Though his work is Principally connected to New England and he used traditional poetry, his poetry was and is anything but traditional. Robert Frost changed America’s views on poetry by introducing many new types…

To write about fear and the overcoming of it is not a new concept-Poe's works thrive on it, and empowering poems like W. E. Henley's "Invictus" teach us all about how to best it. "The Waste Places" by James Stephens is very much the same. Through its use of extended metaphor/symbolism of a lion stalking in a desert, Stephens creates a profound allegory about fear and how to overcome it. It is important to note that Stephens begins the poem claiming he is a "naked man" who runs through the…

2. A modernist writer that we have studied so far this semester could potentially be numerous writers such as T.S Elliot, Earnest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, or Ezra Pound (the writer who I chose to write about). Ezra Pound was a unique writer. He was born in Hailey, Idaho in 1855. He was a traveler that eventually got arrested for treason for posting Fascist propaganda by radio to the U.S. from Italy during WWII. Because of this, he was declared mentally ill and was committed to St.…

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…

“The Road Not Taken” – Robert Frost Robert Frost was one of the greatest pastoral poet of America in the 20th century. Robert published his first work in England in 1910. Since 1920, Robert became the most popular poet with four 4 Pulitzer Prize: New Hampshire (1923), Collected Poems (1930), A Further Range (1936) and A Witness Tree (1942). In 1960, the U.S Congress had awarded Robert for his recognition in poetry for enriching the American literature as well as the World’s philosophy. Robert’s…

“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” This quote from William Butler Yeats expresses how one’s heritage and background can affect a person’s way of life. Also true of this is how one’s heritage can affect one’s work, as it did with Yeats and his poetry. Some of his more popular works are things like The Celtic Twilight, To Ireland in the Coming Times, or A Prayer to My Daughter. However, where he born elsewhere, everything from…

Poem: “anyone lived in a pretty how town” by E.E. Cummings Introduction and Thesis: Living in the adult world is often considered to be monotonous and mundane. It becomes easy to adopt to this orthodox lifestyle, and becomes difficult to escape from it. However, this conventional tradition is considered to be dangerous. This is shown in E.E. Cummings’s poem, “anyone lived in a pretty how town.” Cummings uses figurative languages such as symbolism, repetition, and paradox in order to…