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Amy Lowell's Life and Poems

 

She explains to us what how she felt and what emotions came out while she was their. It also explains what she did there. She tells us that it is cozy and that all the rooms were welcoming and friendly and it never felt like u did not belong their. In this poem it is evident of the influence of Keat's and Tennyson. The tone of this poem is soft and sentimental. It is almost like there is no personality. This poem is entirely blank verse. .
             During her vacations she traveled with her family to Europe and to America west. In 1891, as a proper young lady from a wealthy family, she had her debut. She was invited to a numerous parties, but did not get a marriage proposal that the year was supposed to produce. After her parents death, Lowell purchased Sevenel's from her father's estate, transforming the house and the stables into a compound totally devoted to her two greatest endeavors: creating and promoting modern American poetry and breeding dog's.
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             Mostly she lived the life of a wealthy socialite. She began a lifelong habit of book collecting. She accepted a marriage proposal, but the young man changed his mind and set his heart on another woman. She went to Europe and Egypt to recover, living on a serve diet that was supposed to improve her health. Instead it nearly ruined her health. Throughout her life she was encouraged to write at an early age. Her, her mother and sister wrote Dream Drops or Stories from Fairy Land by a Dreamer. She enjoyed writing. Her first poem Fixed Idea was published in 1910, in Atlantic Monthly, when she was thirty-six: but subsequently her poetry production was as proflic a her reading was voracious. (). She published on average a volume a year even during the worst parts of her illness. (). .
             In 1912, she met Ada Dwyer Russell. From about 1914 on, Russell, a widow who was 11 years older then Lowell became Amy's travelling and living companion and secretary. They lived together in a "Boston marriage" until Amy's death.


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