Renaissance and helped usher a new generation of the 1930s southern literature. One of his important works is The Sound and the Fury published in 1929. It is his fourth novel and his first true masterpiece. Ezra Pound was a poet born in 1885. “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” is one of his poems about the commercialization of
Ezra Pound's Developing Ideas Often called "the poet's poet," because of his profound influence on 20th century writing in English, American poet and critic, Pound, believed that poetry was the highest of the arts. You never would have believed that a writer and optimist such as Ezra Pound would have been born in Hailey, Idaho in 1885. From the sound of his work you'd thing he was definitely one of those European Imagist. In 1908, after teaching college for two years, Pound traveled abroad to Spain
This is an essay about the battle between the traditional and the modern. It has focused on Pound and Yeats’ works in Literature to show the position of each poet’s contribution to modernity. Both poets used different approaches to contribute to modernity. Yeats used classical illusions in his poems to pass the messages and was more focused on culture. This shows his characteristic as a traditionalist more than a modernist (Yeats). Grading his contributions, he is considered the link between the
Both World Wars had a great impact on writers and the stories they wrote for American Literature. The stories changed and took a different approach after the war and new characters were created. In some cases, old characters were recreated and made to fit the new values and beliefs. With each passing of a war, writers wanted to create a new style of writing that would answer public concern. World War I began in 1914 and lasted till 1945, which had the biggest shift in thinking. This war introduced
Poetry is a compact language that expresses complex feelings. To understand the multiple meanings of a poem, readers must examine its words and phrasing from the perspectives of rhythm, sound, images, obvious meaning, and implied meaning. Readers then need to organize responses to the verse into a logical, point-by-point explanation. A good beginning involves asking questions that apply to most poetry. The Context of the Poem Clear answers to the following questions can help establish the context
The poetry of Frank O'Hara is intimately connected to New York City. He explores the role of the individual subject in the city and the mechanics of the city itself; yet because he engages the urban landscape in an urbane manner many readers of Frank O'Hara view him as the prankish patron of the New York art scene who occasionally took pen to paper. Take this review by Herbert Leibowitz as an example: A fascinating amalgam of fan, connoisseur, and propagandist, he was considered by his friends