The third decade of the twentieth century brought on more explicit writers than ever before, but none were as expressive as Anne Sexton. ... "Poetry gave me a rebirth at age twenty-nine" (American Literature 3591), Anne quoted many times during her career. ... Sexton's first book, To Bedlam and Part Way Back, was published in nineteen-sixty, a year after her mother and father died. ... From what I have read, Anne had a terrible life, from her childhood to her adulthood, the struggles she went through seemed endless. ... She had a rough life and was very confused, and although not all...

• Word Count: 1368
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Hemingway's style was influenced by his years as a newspaper reporter, both before and after World War I. ... This was reinforced when a snippet of a retyped Henry James quote was found among the pages of his unfinished manuscript of "A Farewell to Arms." On the snippet, Hemingway prefaced the James quote "The war has used up words " by writing "on the debasement of words by war"."... He absorbed the objective, fact-based writing style of the newspaper article and made it his own, applying the lessons from the Kansas City Star's style guide to all of his subsequent work. "It was a...

• Word Count: 5359
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His desires to be heroic are far from noble but are based solely on the desire to be accepted and admired by men. ... Give examples from the novel that make it naturalistic. ... Crane's objective when writing this book was not to give a history lesson on the civil war actually the reader must know that he is talking of the civil war because he never actually states that in the novel. ... But the most obvious is the quote in 16 stating "All quiet of the Rappahannock- when we are given a specific setting. 9. ... Henry leaves him to die and throughout the entire novel Henry is haunted ...

• Word Count: 2113
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School