My passion for storytelling and literature began at a young age. ... Throughout school, I've always had a love-hate relationship with writing. ... Moving into middle school, I had become slightly less fanatic about reading. ... Toward the end of middle school, my love for poetry waned. ... Presently, I still consider myself as a person that loves to produce and consume literature. ...
Thomas is a poet known greatly for his indulgence in his love for poetry and literature. ... His strict childhood and middle age life, which was largely filled with drinking, and wondering slums played some part in shaping his work, but can be overlooked if studied correctly. ... His mother, in particular lead Dylan from an early age to be a serious reader and writer of poetry. Dylan's interest in poetry and literature was sparked at an early age, and by high school Dylan was editing for his school newspaper. ... Two years later he increased his literary reputation with The Map of ...
From then on, Sexton spent most of her life in the affluent, upper-middle class suburbs of Boston (Discovering Biographies 2). ... To overcome her troubles, she married at age nineteen and attempted to settle into the role of housewife and mother (Discovering Biographies 2). ... "Poetry gave me a rebirth at age twenty-nine" (American Literature 3591), Anne quoted many times during her career. ... "I made myself numb, made my body like stone in exchange for my mother's love" Anne's eldest daughter exclaimed (Linda Sexton 1). ... Anne's Love Poems were published in ninetee...
Born in Bombay, India, on December 30, 1865, Rudyard moved to a lodge in England at the age of six to receive his education. At the age of seventeen, he returned to India to start his writing career as a journalist. ... "Recessional,"" one of Kipling's more political hymns, fronts as a caution to England's empire (Middle 1). ... The ending lines of "Tommy- especially express societies "love/hate relationship- with its soldiers (Cantalupo 256). ... Even today his poems, short stories, and novels can still be found under the category of great literature....
Her love of language and need to understand it has molded her life as an English professor and acclaimed author (Contemporary 1). ... She lived there until the age of ten. ... During her pubescent years, it was a sense of alienation that first prompted a love of writing. ... However, Alvarez herself believes strongly in a "mandate of silence" associated with minority women's literature and its impact. ... It is about the protagonists" precarious coming of age as Latinas in the United States and gringas in the Santo Domingo (Milanes 2)." ...
Moreover, he is dreaming of an idea and concept-what Times Square represents to him-more than the stones in the middle of the road. ... There is the description of Blake, wherein though laying and shooting up with Garver, he sat and loved another. Truly, this touches upon human condition, and its thirst for love. ... Then, after, he is "here-sitting on the streets again-" The entire stanza relating "movies," "Teen Age Nightmare[s]," and "Hooligans of the Moon" is very telling of the current atmosphere of Ginsberg's time. ... That section alone is eerie, for literature knows that these B...
Walt Whitman was and still is a very influential poet and one of the most famous writers of poetry in American Literature. ... " Based on Whitman's words, the bodies of both males and females not only perfect, but sacred and deserve to be revered and loved. ... The middle of the poem Whitman tells a little girl not to fear death because "there really is no death.... " The phase seems to say that any death is better than dying from old age. ... While both themes are different they both present a picture of ones thoughts, feelings and love....
Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem, "The Love Song of J. ... Louis, Missouri in the United States, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalized as a British subject in 1927 at age 39. Eliot was born into a middle class family originally from New England. ... As Eliot was often isolated, his love of literature developed. ... Eliot's first truly mature piece of verse, "The Love Song of J. ...
In the final stanza, the speaker uses emotional phrases, such as, "Believe me I loved you all" to emphasize that she loved them to let them and herself know that she really loved them although she did what she had to do(line 33). ... I see the speaker as a confused, middle-aged woman who has undergone a lot of stress in her lifetime. ... Finally, the readers can see her genuine love for her unborn in the final paragraph. ... Love is an emotion that is hard to express in words, and for someone to say over and over again that she loved her kids she must have meant it. ...
How far does Tennyson's "In Memoriam" reflect the spirit of the Victorian Age? ... Unlike Arnold, he expressed a compromising attitude to his age and its intricate problems. Tennyson, we find, in his Ulysses, The Lotos Eaters, The Charge of the Light Brigade, holds such a sort of view which is supposed to find a middle ground. ... Because of the quality to look for a middle ground, Tennyson is considered as a compromising craftsman who does neither yield to the crisis of his age nor possess a carefree attitude towards the problems, rather keeps compromising and finding a solution. ... ...
