Very few are familiar with Alfred Edward Housman better known as A. E. Housman or his works. As Housman matured and evolved, so did his poems. His success overshadowed many other poets during that time. The majority of his poems expressed his love for his heterosexual college roommate, Moses Jackson.That expression of love was a driving force behind most of his poems.That defining point in his life catapulted his writing style. Housman was best known for his creative love poems with weird endings, due to this hidden passion. He also expressed that the dead still had their ways of showing love to each other. Little is known about how Housman really communicated to people through his poems. The sadness and doubtfulness that Housman poems grasp, awaken the attention of readers. His poems are still being read and studied throughout the world.( http://www.biography.com)
Alfred Edward Housman was born on March 26, 1859, at Valley House in Fockbury. The Valley House was near Bromsgrove in Worchester. He was the eldest of seven children. His father was practicing to be a lawyer but worked as a country solicitor. While growing up, he and a few of his siblings were avid writers of poetry. They enjoyed writing humorous poetry. Within his adult years, despite the rise in importance of novels in literary form, his more mature poetry often displays touches of grim comedy, even a carryover from the juvenilia. Housman early years were saddened by his mothers’ illness and death. Her death had a lasting impact on his life. The lack of his fathers’skills of being a good husband and a good father often caused the family some financial troubles and many other problems. The hard shiphe and his family experienced as a child was deeply emb...
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This poem explains how you should stay a true friend to others. That if you have true friends that they’ll stay true to you at all times. And that if they aren’t your true friends they’ll soon part from you. Then, you’ll see who your true friends at the end were. Neither should you allow other people to run over you or use you. To have a mind of your own and toalsothink for yourself.
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1. “Alfred Edward Housman”, 2014, Biography.com website. – http:// www.biography.com/people/ae-housman.
2. Housman, A.E. Great writers of the English language, London,
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3.”Alfred Edward Housman” 2014 .Poem hunter .com – http://www.poemhunter.com/alfred-edward-housman/biography
4. Housman, A.E. The Collected Poems of A.E Housman, New York,
5. Housman A.E, When I was one-and-twenty, London . - 1920. Pgs. 964
The speakers in the A. E. Housman poem “To an Athlete Dying Young” and the Edward Arlington Robinson poem “Richard Cory” serve different purposes but use irony and rhyme to help convey their message. In “To an Athlete Dying Young” the speaker’s purpose is to show the audience that dying young with glory is more memorable than dying old with glory. In “Richard Cory” the speaker’s purpose is to show the audience “you can’t judge a book by its cover.” In the poem “To an Athlete Dying Young” the author uses rhyme to show the reader how the glory of the runner came and went in a dramatic way. By having rhyme in “To an Athlete Dying Young” it allows the irony in the poem and the meaning that poet A. E. Housman is trying to convey, to really stick with the readers.
as told from the point of view of a friend serving as pall bearer. The poem
To help Year Twelve students that are studying poetry appreciate it's value, this pamphlet's aim is to discuss a classic poem and a modern song lyric to show that even poetry written many years ago can still be relevant to people and lyrics today. By reading this may you gain a greater knowledge and understanding of poetry in general, and not just the two discussed further on.
Before reading this poem there are many things that have to be taken into consideration such as Young’s background, education, ideology and phraseology. Kevin Young starts off the poem
As in all art, each masterpiece has a distinct mark from their specific artist. The literary arts are no exception, with each author leaving a prominent rhythm, style and language. Thomas Hardy is known for his poems of separation. Thomas found love when he was 30 years old, but his relationship went sour when his marriage to Emma Gifford became estranged. Emma later died leaving her husband an outcast. It was not until 1914 when Thomas Hardy married his second wife, Florence, that he understood how much he missed his first wife. In his poems, Hardy focuses on withering love and the being miserable after a loss. Also, he uses rhyme scheme, multiple cesuras and end stops and symbolism to conceal a deeper meaning of the poem. The two poems that connect the two aspects of Thomas Hardy’s style are Your Last Drive and The Workbox.
The influence that Elizabeth Bishop's poetry has had on the poetry of John Ashbery has been widely cited. 1 Ashbery himself remarked that he "read, reread, studied and absorbed" Bishop (Shoptaw 29). In Ashbery's poem "Untilted," written only a month before Bishop's death, the speaker makes an appeal to Bishop. 2 By alluding to her early poem "The Man-Moth" and drawing on common motifs in Bishop's poetry, the speaker reveals an empathy for her unwillingness to go public with her homosexuality. Pressured by the prejudices of the 1940s and 1950s, Bishop would never write about her lesbianism, except through veiled references in her poetry that work as maps to the marginalized life of the homosexual poet. Vernon Shelty comments on Bishop's tendency to hold back: "Reticence and silence seem to have come naturally to her, but that innate bias must have been powerfully reinforced by the need for certain kinds of secrecy in her emotional life. . . . the climate of hostility to homosexuality throughout most of Bishop's lifetime thwarted the development of what might have been a remarkable love poet" (24). 3 Shelty makes a connection between Bishop and Ashbery through this secrecy, stating that like Bishop, "Ashbery seemed destined to be a love poet, but he found his way blocked by the imperative of secrecy surrounding the love he would have taken as his subject" (25). Unable to openly address issues of his own sexuality, Ashbery empathizes with Bishop's silence. By the end of "Untilted," however, focusing on the "cradled," "pure" but painful "tear"--a legacy from Bishop's poem "The Man-Moth"--the speaker appeals to Bishop, and to himself, to let go of fear. 4
enable us to understand the moral of the poem. Which is work hard and you will receive you goals and never give up.
During this week my classmates and I had to select poetry and discuss how it relates to us and the meaning of it. Some of my fellow did just that and some select a poetry that they feel that should be mentioned about. The poetry that my classmates and I chose was “Daystar” by Rita Dove. I learned from my classmates and Rita poetry that we all get caught up in our busy lives of taking care of our responsibility those we for get to take time out for ourselves. The only time that we that we do have we be at a standstill drifting away into a day bream for as long as we can to relax and have peace.
There is no greater bond then a boy and his father, the significant importance of having a father through your young life can help mold you to who you want to become without having emotional distraught or the fear of being neglected. This poem shows the importance in between the lines of how much love is deeply rooted between these two. In a boys life he must look up to his father as a mentor and his best friend, the father teaches the son as much as he can throughout his experience in life and build a strong relationship along the way. As the boy grows up after learning everything his father has taught him, he can provide help for his father at his old-age if problems were to come up in each others
As England’s Poet Laureate, and recipient of both the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry and T.S. Eliot’s prize for poetry, Ted Hughes was an acclaimed poet. The shadow of Hughes late wife, Sylvia Plath, kept Hughes stagnant in his career, in which he was known as “Her Husband” (Middlebrook). Hughes most recent collection of poems, Birthday Letters, took him over twenty-five years to write, and contains poems which recount the marriage of the couple. Hughes wrote the poems as a loving gesture towards Sylvia, but the poems were misinterpreted as “an attempt to adjust the public record in the wake of her confession and the mass of commentary which has grown up around them” (Spurr 3). Hughes incorporated into his poetry the ideals of postmodernism, his somber life and relationships, simplistic formatting, imagery, and allusions. Hughes influenced the world through his animal images and multifarious tones.
The poem unapologetically documents the poet’s hopes to have all of his “emotions rattled” and makes demands: “Give me the bottom of the river, / all the unadorned, unfinished / unpraised moments, one good turn / on the luxuriant wheel.” Adamshick is sincere in his need for family, for dancing, and for “verbal sparring” throughout his time on this earth. It is his sincere confession and documentation of these needs and desires that makes his poem a prayer. Adamshick’s collection of poetry, entitled Saint Friend, focuses on the horrible truth that our time on this earth will end and is often short-lived. Despite Adamshick’s realization of this truth, he chooses to honor its presence through his
No one should let others opinions influence what they do and no one should not do something because they are worried what others will think. In the poem the narrator tells the story of a person who is scared to talk about themselves because they were criticized once for it. They are worried about others opinion and spend their time working to be liked by everyone. The stanzas in the poem help to emphasize the meaning of the poem by breaking it up into three different parts of the story. The first part talks about the incident where the person the narrator was talking about was hurt. The narrator recalls the incident while talking to the person they wrote the poem about, “do you remember the first time you were called annoying/how your breath stopped short in your chest” (1-2). The person in which the poem was about was hurt because of something someone said to them. They were called annoying and didn't know how to respond because they took the insult to heart. The second stanza talks about how the person in which the poem was wrote about is still hurt. The narrator shows the person who the poem is wrote about is still hurt, “you’re 20 now/ and I still see the light fade from your eyes when you talk about your interests for too long”(8-9). The person who the poem wrote about is still hurt by what someone said to them when they were thirteen. Someone called them
Loss and isolation are easy, yet difficult to write about. They are easy because every human being can empathize with loneliness. If someone denies this, they are lying because loneliness is a common feeling, anyone can relate. It’s hard because we don’t discuss loneliness or loss publicly very often, and when we do, we forget about it quickly. These poems contrast each other by speaking of the different types of loneliness and isolation, distinguishing between the ones of loss, and isolation in a positive perspective.
Alfred Noyes,the British poet renowned on account his ballad “The Highwayman,” was declared to be “one of the most prolific, most popular, and most traditional of British poets.”1 He wrote mostly in ballad form of the country of Wales; some of his works were set to music by Sir Edward Elgar. Furthermore, despite having failing eyesight as a senior, he persisted in writing almost until his death.
Hopkins was born on July twenty-eighth 1844 as one of nine children in Stratford, Essex. He was born into a flourishing Europe that was growing rapidly industrially. Both of his parents were very much involved in the Catholic Church, and his father had published a volume of poetry a year before his birth. As one can determine from this, much of his influence came from his parents. Hopkins began writing poetry in grammar school during which he won a poetry prize. This prize gave him a scholarship to Balliol College in Oxford, where he earned two degrees and was considered by his professors and peers to be the star of Balliol. Throughout his life he was very connected to his religion. So much that in 1868, after joining the Society of Jesus, he burned all of his work because he felt that it conflicted with Jesuit principles. It was not until 1872 that he began to write poetry again. It was t...