Bryant went through many hard times throughout his life; from losing family members to being socially isolated. He lost many family members and close friends. The one death that hurt him the most was his father’s. Bryant’s father was a very important part of his life; his father taught him many things throughout his lifetime. His father submitted five of his poems into the North American Review, one of those were the first version of “Thanatopsis”. It is said that Bryant mourned his father’s death and that his death is what gave him the emotional passion to write with. As a child Bryant was forced to work on a farm, he spent most of his time outdoors. Due to being outdoors a majority of his life, Bryant was able to obtain his transcendental view of nature. Also, later on in Bryant’s life he wasn’t able to provide for his family and fill the role as father. Typically the role of a father is to be the bread winner of the family while taking care of the wife and children. Bryant lacked the necessary means in supplying his household’s income. This led Bryan to take a lot of desperate measures in order to provide for his family. A bad investment in a merchant ship landed him in “debtor’s prison”. Debtor’s prison is a prison specifically for people who cannot pay on the debt that they have collected. Death played a major role in Bryant’s life as well. He had to cope with the loss of so many family members due to the outbreak of typhoid fever. His experiences of death allowed him to write with different viewpoints of death. Bryant struggled with the thoughts of an “after life” that were related to God. As a young child, Bryant’s grandparents tried to instill their religious views in him. Through his writings Bryant portrayed his faith i... ... middle of paper ... ...e to expand his reading and became familiar with philosophical writers and British poets. Spanish was the next culture he immersed himself in. This immersion was made possible through a meeting with a famous Cuban poet. After this meeting Bryant began to learn the Spanish language and broaden his knowledge of Spanish Literature. He was soon fluent enough in the Spanish language that he was able to translate Spanish poems into English. Eventually Bryant’s own poems, “Thanatopsis” and “To A Waterfowl” were translated into Spanish and published in Spain. Bryant’s interest in the Spanish literature and the Spanish culture and history remained constant over many decades but was the most intense early in his career. Bryant’s interest in all of these different cultures and languages helped expand his knowledge and only made his writing better as he now had worldly views.
Bryan grew up in poor rural area in Delaware where people were divided by “colored sections” by railroads. This is an area where people lived in tiny shacks and lacked indoor plumbing. None of his relatives were not able to escape and to college. His grandfather died when he was teenager and he felt that no one care saying that “it didn’t seem to matter the world much.” Therefore when he talks to clients he shows that he cares. When his client Herbert was sent to execution, Bryan promised to attend his his execution. He drove two hours Atmore to get there. When Bryan got arrived at the prison, he prayed with Herbert and his family. Herbert then says “I know this ain 't easy for you either , but I’m grateful to you for standing with me. Another example is when Bryan goes Repton, a town close to Monroeville, to visit the family of Walter to answer question. “We talked for well over an hour - or they talked while they I listened” Bryan said. He was there just for comfort. Then there was a fourteen named Charlie. He was abused by his mother’s boyfriend. Charlie refused to speak to Bryan, but Bryan would not leave until he responded. He spent hours asking “Are u okay”. Bryan he made sure the he
It both shows the author’s knowledge of the Spanish language as well as providing evidence to the fact that English is not the author’s only language. “Spanish seemed the language of home” demonstrates the way the
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The poem is written in the father’s point of view; this gives insight of the father’s character and
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Throughout his villanelle, “Saturday at the Border,” Hayden Carruth continuously mentions the “death-knell” (Carruth 3) to reveal his aged narrator’s anticipation of his upcoming death. The poem written in conversation with Carruth’s villanelle, “Monday at the River,” assures the narrator that despite his age, he still possesses the expertise to write a well structured poem. Additionally, the poem offers Carruth’s narrator a different attitude with which to approach his writing, as well as his death, to alleviate his feelings of distress and encourage him to write with confidence.
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This blues poem discusses an incredibly sensitive topic: the death of Trethewey’s mother, who was murdered by her ex-husband when Trethewey was nineteen. Many of her poetry was inspired by the emotions following this event, and recounting memories made thereafter. “Graveyard Blues” details the funeral for Trethewey’s mother, a somber scene. The flowing words and repetition in the poem allow the reader to move quickly, the three-line stanzas grouping together moments. The poem begins with heavy lament, and the immediate movement of the dead away from the living, “Death stops the body’s work, the soul’s a journeyman [author emphasis]” (Tretheway 8, line 6). Like the epitaph from Wayfaring Stranger, Trethewey indicates that the dead depart the world of the living to some place mysterious, undefined. The living remain, and undertake a different journey, “The road going home was pocked with holes,/ That home-going road’s always full of holes” (Trethewey 8, line 10-11). Trethewey indicates that the mourning is incredibly difficult or “full of holes”, as she leaves the funeral and her mother to return home. ‘Home’ in this poem has become indicative of that which is not Trethewey’s mother, or that which is familiar and comfortable, in vast contrast to the definition of home implied in the
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