The Great American Poets During the nineteenth century, many new authors blossomed in America. ... America gave birth to several great poets during the nineteenth century including William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. ...
During the nineteenth century there was a literary transformation going on in America that changed many writers" approach and mind-set to writing. This transformation was known as know as Romanticism. William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Copper and Edgar Allen Poe were major cont...
Within this sonnet, Wordsworth uses those abilities to motivate readers of the nineteenth century and future generations to take heed of their worldly desires and look at Nature not only in the earthly sense but also in the context of human nature. ... On the whole, this sonnet offers an angry summation of the familiar Wordsworthian theme of communion with nature, and states precisely how far the early nineteenth century was from living out the Wordsworthian ideal. ...
How do I love thee is a sonnet by E.B. Browning where she displays her love and devotion for her husband. The sonnet is like a monologue where the poet asks herself a question and comes up with the answer. The strength of the sonnet is that the speaker tries to express her feelings as a person, whic...
Truly one of the nineteenth century's Renaissance women, Francis Ellen Watkins Harper was a poet, novelist, essayist, journalist, abolitionist, feminist, Christian writer, and temperance and women's rights organizer. ... Robert Hayden was one of the best twentieth century poets and was the first black poet to be chosen as a consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress a position commonly referred to as the American equivalent of the British poet laureate designation. ...
William Blake who lived in the latter half of the eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth century was a poet, a philosopher, a radical, an artist, and a great thinker; who was able to bring about remarkable results with the simplest of means in all of his work. ... Yet, at another level , blight can mean diseased, and in the eighteenth century STD's were common, and could be fatal. ...
In order to understand the poetry of Robert Browning, one must first understand the time period in which he lived. It was the middle of the nineteenth century, and the once-rural British population was heading toward more populated, larger cities due to the Industrial Revolution that was taking pla...
Walt Whitman Through the history of the United States there have been many poets; with them came an equal number of writing styles. Walt Whitman is certainly one of the most unique American poets. Greatly criticized for his view of the world, his works of literature has left a lasting impression o...
On the whole, this sonnet offers an angry summation of the familiar Wordsworthian theme of communion with nature, and states precisely how far the early nineteenth century was from living out the Wordsworthian ideal (Sparknotes.com, 2003). ...
Gwen Harwood's distinct themes on gender construction in society and identity can be seen in her two poems, "The Carnival of Venice" (1969-1974) and "Long after Heine" (1988). She plays with the idea of role swapping in "The Carnival of Venice" and the conformity required by western society. "Long a...
The poems "Where I Come From" by Elizabeth Brewster and "A Different History" by Sujata Bhatt both evidently display the relationship between the past, present and change. However, "A Different History" shows changes from a cultural and religious perspective, whereas "Where I Come From" discusses th...
Emily Dickinson is one of the most well known poets of her time. Though her life was outwardly uneventful, what went on inside her house behind closed doors is unbelievable. After her father died she met Reverend Charles Wadsworth. She soon came to regard him as one of her most trusted friends, and ...
Both "Strange fits of passion I have known" and "The Tyger" were written during the "Romantic Period", generally taken to extend from the outbreak of the French Revolution (1789), through the first three decades of the Nineteenth Century. ...
Whitman's Elegies and His View of Death An elegy is a poetic response to the experience of loss. Although the elegy is among the oldest poetic forms with a rich history in myths and in religious texts, the elegy was a popular nineteenth-century genre. Walt Whitman was familiar with both old and con...
