Compare And Contrast Robert Creeley And Emily Dickinson

Poetry is literature which expresses feelings, ideas and emotions ultimately to tell a story, but the intensity, reality and drive of the story is portrayed through the used of distinctive style, genre, rhythm and beat. Robert Creeley and Emily Dickinson both use poetic language and form in order to convey and allow the reader to unpack the poem and create meaning.

Robert Creeley’s Broken Back Blues, explores the genre of Blues which allows the piece to carry a pensive tone which evokes a Jazz like meter and sounds. The Jazz influence in the piece reflects this through a disjointed and untraditional form of poetry and meter, through the repetition of sounds and similar sounding words, thus allows the piece to present a story, a reality.