born in Akron‚ Ohio in 1952. She was a Presidential Scholar in 1970. She attended Miami University of Ohio‚ where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree; she continued her education by earning a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Iowa. She is a poet‚ novelist‚ short story author‚ essayist‚ playwright‚ newspaper columnist and editor. She also created a song cycle for soprano and orchestra music. Despite the diversity‚ her literary excellence is honored over and over. The four poems this
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Before we are able to trace the motives that ushered in Romantic period‚ it is of paramount importance to point out the preceding period‚ which is known as Neo-classical era. The Neoclassical period spans 1600-1798 (the accession of Charles II to the publication by Wordsworth and Coleridge of Lyrical Ballad). It is called the neoclassical period because of reverence for the works of classical antiquity. The period is often called Age of reason‚ and science was used to glorify God and his creation
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During the literary period known as the New England Renaissance‚ there were several poets who became very popular. They were called The Fireside Poets because they used themes that appealed to a wide audience and families would spend time in the evenings reading their poetry by the fireside. Fireside poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier both used imagery in their poetry to help the reader picture scenes of nature with language that gives the elements of nature almost human-like
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WHITMAN‚ THE DEMOCRATIC POET When the first edition of Leaves of Grass was originally published in 1855‚ Walt Whitman ’s collection of poems was a slender yet ideologically rich book. Although only fully recognized after his death‚ Whitman ’s body of work has become the emblem of American democracy. If in the beginning he had been scorned‚ ignored‚ or misunderstood‚ slowly and steadily Whitman achieved international fame‚ and is now arguably one of the most
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Protestantism. One of those is John Donne. He was a priest and was known for addressing God directly in his poems. He has a personal relationship between him and god. Donne carried the metaphysical style in his writings‚ which were taken up by later poets; the other two under consideration here are George Herbert and Crashaw. Herbert decided when he began writing poetry at Cambridge‚ to devote his poetic works to God‚ he had less difficulty in adjusting from court life to religious life than did Donne
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Langston Hughes was a famous African American poet‚ and novelist. Langston was born February 1‚ 1902 in Joplin‚ MO and soon after he was born his parents James Hughes‚ and Carrie Langston had separated. They both end up leaving him behind his dad took off to Mexico and didn’t return‚ and his mom end up moving. So he had to end living with his grandmother her names was Mary but she end up dying in his early teens. Hughes end up moving with back with his mom which the moved to several cities before
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THE METAPHYSICAL POETS BELIEVED IN SEIZING THE DAY. DISCUSS WITH REFERENCE TO TWO POEMS In defiance of‚ and in gesture of confrontation to‚ a conservative‚ paternalistic‚ and religious world‚ the metaphysical poets John Donne and Andrew Marvell present a new mode of thinking; one not governed by the hope of heaven‚ but by faith in the flesh. The poetry highlights and reinforces the spontaneity of lust while underscoring the fact of human mortality. Challenge conventions and conservative ideology
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Through the four texts I have studied I have found a main connection of feminism in different social settings between the times of 1900 - 1920. The texts I’ve studied are the two poems ’We As Women’‚ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and ’The Bees Song’ by Julia Ward Howe‚ the novel ’In defense of Women’‚ by H.L. Mencken and the poem ’I know why the caged bird sings’ by Maya Angelou. Also through these four texts I have found three main ideas‚ these are ’how women were treated unequally’‚ ’survival’‚ and
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bold poets in the 17th Century who took their words to a rather analytical side of the abstracts aspects of life. John Donne‚ one of Metaphysical Poetry’s main figures‚ stands out for his choice of simple words to approach more complex themes of life. In ‘‘Holy Sonnet 10’’‚ Donne brings Death to human level in which he strongly criticizes it for being inferior to other mortal pleasures. Donne’s boldness is emphasized as he alters the English sonnet’s structure to fit his own theme. The poet combines
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art everywhere ; This bed thy center is‚ these walls thy sphere. John Donne: a metaphysical poet. The metaphysical poet and clergyman John Donne was one of the most influential poets of the Renaissance. He was born London in 1572 to a prosperous Roman Catholic family during a time when anti-Catholic sentiment was rising in England. His father‚ John Donne‚ was a merchant who died when the poet was only four years old and his mother‚ Elizabeth‚ was the daughter of and playwright
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