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An Introduction to the Life and Literature by Denise Levertov an American Author (625 words, 3 pages)

Audrey T. RodgersBy 1964, Denise Levertov was more than a "presence" inAmerican poetry. The leading poets of the era, Charles Olson, Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Bly,Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Muriel Rukeyser, David Ignatow, and many other respectedher as a fellow artist for her poetic accomplishments and her stature as an articulatevoice ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of William Everson (6134 words, 23 pages)

William Everson was born in 1912 in Sacramento, California, and grew up in the San Joaquin Valley. He attended Fresno State College for a term, where he discovered the work of Robinson Jeffers. During World War II he served as a conscientious objector, then returned to the Bay Area to ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Lula Carson Smith (2379 words, 3 pages)

Carson McCullers The Heart is a Lonely HunterLula Carson Smith was born on February 19, 1917. She was the oldest of three children.Carson found herself to be very good at playing the piano at a young age. She shocked her mother at age six by sitting down and playing with ... Read More

An Analysis of a Poet’s Life in Sympathy (834 words, 4 pages)

Jean Wagner"Sympathy" is a heartfelt cry of a poet who finds himself imprisoned amidtraditions and prejudices he feels powerless to destroy . . . . from Black Poets of the United States, from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes. Urbana University of Illinois Press, 1973. Copyright 1973 by the Board ... Read More

The Early Life and People of Rome (3939 words, 16 pages)

RomeThe LandItaly is a peninsula jutting out into the Medditerranean sea west of Greece. Italyhas poor mineral resources and very few useful harbors, however it is wealty in bothfertile land and precipitation. Three - quarters of the peninsula is covered in foothillsand mountains. The alps, a mountian range to the ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Literature by Baraka (1487 words, 8 pages)

Jay R. Berry Baraka pays careful attention to rhythm, even in poems that do not employ or experimentwith traditional forms. "SOS," the opening poem on Black Art, containsshort, terse, telegraphic phrases that are reminiscent of a radio transmission Calling black people Calling all black people, man woman child Wherever you ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Berryman (606 words, 3 pages)

Paul BreslinWith Berryman, the adoption of "Henry" as apersona mitigates the bluntness of self-disclosure. So does his self-deprecatorywit. Lowell and Plath are seldom funny, and even when they are, theirs is amuted, saturnine humor. Already by the fourth Dream Song, Berryman has struck acomic note never sounded in their poetry ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Berryman (442 words, 2 pages)

Jeffrey Alan TriggsThis is a subtly organized poem, whose theme is well realized in its language. Theincessant "ands," the persistent refusal of the syntax to come to rest, theliterate colloquial tone all contribute to the poem's feeling of restless dissatisfaction.Berryman satirizes in particular middle class ecstasy over the common functioning ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Woman in Rome and Male Hatred of Women (2024 words, 3 pages)

The life of a Woman of Rome was filled with many traditions and rules, which were carried on generation after generation. Many say that Roman women were oppressed because they were not allowed to be an active part of society and politics. The book Roman Women by J.P.V.D. Balsdon gives, ... Read More

The Life and Literary Works of Margaret Walker (3607 words, 15 pages)

By James SmethurstIn many respects, Margaret Walker is an anomalous figure among African-American poetsin the 1940s. She is set apart from most of her contemporaries in her early upbringing inthe Deep South--though this upbringing was urban for the most part, primarily inBirmingham and New Orleans, and her secondary education at ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Work by Martin Espada (1481 words, 7 pages)

John MarshAs I write about Martin Espada in April and May of 2001, the island of Puerto Rico,which often figures in many of his poems, is suddenly in the news again. The New YorkTimes, among other media, is giving national coverage to the protests against theUnited States Navy for its ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Lorde (1132 words, 5 pages)

Gloria T. HullHowever uneasy her identity may be, it is imperative for Lordethat she read the world as a meaningful text and not as a series of interesting andelusive propositions. For her, to "read" is (1) to decipher--like the musicianPrince--the signs of the times, (2) to decode--as the lesbiangay community ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Georgia Douglas Johnson and Alice Dunbar-Nelson (470 words, 3 pages)

Mary LoeffelholzGeorgia Douglas Johnson and Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) werethe elder mentors mentors of the renaissance generation of black women poets. Wary ofcombining racial issues with poetry, Dunbar-Nelson wrote some of her best-known poemsprotesting other ills than racism "I Sit and Sew" is the dramatic monologue ofa woman stifled by the ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of H. D. (1611 words, 8 pages)

Michael BoughnYet for H.D. herself, the issue of writing was clearly tied tothe issue of vision, or rather writing was the issue of vision. Her first book of verse, SeaGarden, opens with a poem called "Sea Rose." An exemplary Imagist poem, itsvery particularity resonates with rich, multiple correspondences Rose, harsh ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Literature by Helen Vendler (2561 words, 10 pages)

Helen VendlerGiving up the prism, the lens, the map, and pulling herself up by her own roots, Rich,as The Will to Change closes, eats the last meal in her own neighborhood andprepares, deprived of all instruments, to move on, guided only by the fortuitous cracks inthe plaster, the innate lifeline, ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Paul Kane (1713 words, 7 pages)

Benjamin BranhamThe Canadian artist Paul Kane, 1810-1871, whose oeuvre consists largely ofsketches and paintings depicting landscapes and scenes of Indian life in Canada and thePacific Northwest, plays a central role in Alexie's "Scalp Dance by SpokaneIndians," named after Kane's painting of the same title. Much like Wendy Rose's"Truganinny," the poem ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Kenneth Rexroth (3231 words, 13 pages)

Sam Hamill and Elaine Laura KleinerBy turns revolutionary and conservative, simultaneously spiritualand worldly, Asian and Western, Kenneth Rexroth created what must surely be regarded asthe most original synthesis of transcendent metaphysical and erotic verse ever written byan American poet. A polyglot iconoclast, Rexroth was steeped in the world's spiritual andliterary ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Sumner Locke Elliott (1291 words, 3 pages)

2. "There's a good deal more to Careful, he might hear you than the sad story of a little boy with a strange name". Do you agree?Careful, he might hear you is much more than the sad story of a little boy with a strange name, although the story does ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Parker (718 words, 3 pages)

Nancy A. Walker. . . . Whether serious or comic, Parker's reviews ring with the utmost candoralthough she creates distinctive personae in the presentation of her opinions, the mediumof the book review allowed for an expression of personal tastes that can provide insightinto a woman of integrity and high standards.The ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Literature by Kay Boyle (1157 words, 6 pages)

Kay Boyle (1) (1930) This passage from Kay Boyles tribute appeared in the June 1930 Transition in which Crosby was remembered by friends. Boyles short stories appeared in the Black Sun Press, and Boyle herself stayed with the Crosbys in Paris. Crosby knew her well enough to cash in some ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Catherine the Great (3638 words, 6 pages)

1. Catherine II (the Great). The successor of the sickly Peter III, Catherine II was his wife until his suspected murder and she took the throne in 1762. Although she made no great reforms in Russian society, she gathered many friends by her death in 1796.Catherine had to keep the ... Read More

An Analysis of the Impact of America’s Combat Role During the Vietnam War (1304 words, 6 pages)

Harvard SitikoffFollowing the end of Americas combat role in Vietnam in1973, and the subsequent fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) in 1975, theoften prophesied and much feared resurgence of McCarthyite Red-baiting, the bitteraccusations of "who lost Vietnam?" barely transpired. Rather than massiverecriminations, a collective amnesia took hold. ... Read More

An Analysis of the Spanish Civil War (1228 words, 6 pages)

Davidman's poems about the Spanish Civil War in Letter to a Comrade oppose General Francisco Franco and support freedom fighters associated with the Loyalists. The following excerpt by Malcolm Cowley reflects the position that, according to Daniel Aaron, most American communist and non-communists intellectuals believed. The Spanish Civil War (1936-39) ... Read More

A Discussion About The Different Poems on the Vietnam War (1777 words, 7 pages)

John Clark PrattPoetry that documents the attitudes toward the Vietnam War--aswell as the origins, development, and conduct of the war--is both pervasive andsignificant. Although only a few poems by French writers reflect that country'sinvolvement, the Vietnamese tradition of poetic expression produced a large body of work,both personal and political, written ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Paean to Place From My Life by Water (1699 words, 8 pages)

Jane AugustineIn "Paean to Place" from "My Life by Water,"included in Cid Cormans memoir in Chicago Review 88 (1973), the sense that"I am what is around me"a line from Wallace Stevensis conveyedthrough images of water and waterside which are multiplied and overlaid to reflect, as shehas said a "state of ... Read More

A History of the Second World War (6974 words, 27 pages)

The Second World Warby Richard OveryThe Second World War was a war of extremes. All the powers thatfought it were pushed to the very depths of physical and moral endurance. Not since theEuropean wars of religion three centuries before had ideological confrontation provokedsuch a depth of hatred and military barbarism. ... Read More

The Contributing Factors to the Eruption of the Spanish Civil War (4081 words, 16 pages)

Cary NelsonIn a longer historical perspective the Spanish Civil War amounts to the opening battleof World War II, perhaps the only time in living memory when the world confrontedinfascism and Nazismsomething like unqualified evil. The men and women who understoodthis early on and who chose of their own free will ... Read More

An Introduction to the History of the Spanish War (3009 words, 11 pages)

from New English Weekly, 29 July and 2 September 1937The Spanish war has probably produced a richer crop of lies than any event since theGreat War of 1914-18, but I honestly doubt, in spite of all those hecatombs of nuns whohave been raped and crucified before the eyes of Daily ... Read More

Racism During the Second World War as Presented in Life magazine by Sesshu Foster (1645 words, 7 pages)

Allan G. Borst Sesshu Fosters prose poem "Life Magazine,December, 1941" presents a stark and brutally honest commentary on racism during WWIIby targeting one of Americas most beloved and omnipresent magazines. On December 22,1941, fifteen days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, LIFE magazine reachedthe newsstands and American homes with ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Sherman Alexie (3248 words, 13 pages)

Kenneth LincolnWith Sherman Alexie, readers can throw formal questions out thesmokehole (as in resistance to other modern verse innovators, Whitman, Williams, Sexton,or the Beats). Parodic antiformalism may account for some of Alexie's mass maverickappeal. This Indian gadfly jumps through all the hoops, sonnet, to villanelle, to heroiccouplet, all tongue-in-cheeky. "I'm ... Read More

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Published: Friday 25th of January 2013