Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren All the Kings' Men portrays the rise of Willie Stark from poverty to governor with the help of his right hand man Jack Burden. For a better analysis on how to do the right thing in politics through Willie Stark, Thomas Aquinas and Niccol'o Machiavelli provide sufficient evidence to support his methods of leadership. When Machiavelli stated, "Ascent to princely power by some criminal or evil conduct; and the rise of a private citizen to supreme authority in his land through choice of his fellow citizens" (Machiavelli 25), relates to how Willie Stark shows us how the political process works and what it takes to obtain power despite his personal life infidelities. Stark went by the motto his way or the highway as he used his power to make his enemies submit to his demands, which is a form of Machiavellism where all morality has been set aside, but still does the right thing by the people as he makes them his first priority. Jack Burden being the protagonist and second in command to Willie Stark does help us understand how politics worked and has continued in the same way, but does not provide adequate…

Flies and A Separate Peace both force the reader to look at the darkness within each of us and face the way we overcome that darkness through how we resolve our inner conflict (Golding; Knowles) . In Robert Penn Warren’s “Why Do We Read Fiction?” his statement “no conflict, no story” illustrates the fact that without conflict there can be no progression within a story (8). Fiction opens the door to many new worlds filled with characters- some interesting, some sad, some inspiring- and events-…

The thought provoking essay “Poetry as a Way of Saying” by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, provides an educational direction for a reader’s comprehension and understanding of the “naturalness” of poetry. They claim in this critical text that “mere immersion does little good unless the reader is making, however unconsciously, some discriminations, comparisons, and judgements” and that “by trying to understand the nature and structure of poetry. . .readers may accelerate and deepen the…

Robert Penn Warren, as a child, grew up on a tobacco farm. His grandfathers, who worked on the farm regularly, told him many stories of the Civil War. These stories, as he remarked, provided a rich resource of memories and images that “nurture” his art. Robert began to write while in college. He intended on being an engineer, although he eventually pursued writing. Warren’s central theme in many poems is the south. Many of his poems depict the south and others draw inspiration from southern…

Robert Penn Warren’s thrilling novel All the King’s Men begins to sound like a story written in the narrator, Jack Burden’s eyes, about a man he worked for named Willie Stark. However, it is nothing more than a representation of who Jack is as a person and character in the story and how it progresses. Willie Stark is known as one of Jack’s father figures because not only does he offer Jack a job, he manages to show Jack how to redeem himself. Jack’s mother had several men in her and her son’s…

In the dictionary, the word responsibility is defined as “The state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or of having control someone” (“English Oxford” 1). Throughout life, people have the duty to deal with, or to accept responsibility for, situations that arise. As each new day and each individual action a person makes creates new situations, responsibility is unavoidable. Interestingly, the way in which people accept responsibility, whether they fearlessly embrace or avoid it, is…

of living itself is an act of ultimate responsibility. In Robert Penn Warren’s classic novel, All the King’s Men, the central characters of the novel all have to deal with the consequences of their actions, although many of the characters try to avoid this solemn duty of life. Through analyzing the actions and inactions of the central characters, many important lessons…

The extreme lovely scene which I founded during reading of Novel “All the King’s Men” are “Princes conserve Princesses, they fall in love with one another, conquer all evil and live happily ever after”. Accompany avenue this is the type of story which always bells letters public love to read, according to author Robert Penn Warren it is not actuality, fact and reality. Robert Penn Warren wrote his different novel 1946, “All the King’s Men” as a realistic and allegory play particular qualities or…

Humans often find themselves ignorant of time’s passage and the consequences of their earthly errors. Robert Penn Warren’s poem, “Evening Hawk,” explores this concept and presents the idea that nature, as represented by the hawk, possesses a harsh judgement of humanity and its mistakes. The opening of the poem introduces an image of a hawk to observe the passage of time and human fallacies. Warren’s use of vivid language, both literal and figurative, conveys the mood and meaning of the work as a…

What do writers John Updike and Robert Penn Warren have in common. Well among other things to each other in a poem about baseball. John Updike who has written other sports related literature wrote the poem Tao in Yankee stadium bleachers and Robert Penn Warren wrote the poem He Was Formidable. Both of these poems appear in the book “Hummers, Knuckles, and Slow Curves, Contemporary Baseball Poems” [University of Illinois Press; Urbana and Chicago, 1991.] an anthology. For people who thought…