Robert Creeley was probably one of the most influential writers of his time. Him and one of his colleagues developed a new type of writing. This type of writing is known as projective verse. Projective verse was a lot different than the other forms of writing. Projective verse also was used a lot in the future, making Robert Creeley an influence.
Robert Creeley may have been greatly influenced by events that happened throughout his entire life as well as influenced by people in his life. He writes about events in his life, but he doesn’t state them exactly. Creeley wrote about many events, and some are given in this paper.
Robert Creeley was born in Arlington Massachusetts in 1926 and died in the year of 2005. At the age of four years old, Creeley had an accident that left him blind in one eye. A splinter had penetrated his eye through his cornea. Robert Creeley’s father passed away in 1930. Creeley was raised by both his sister and his mother.
He earned a scholarship, and that got him into Holderness school in Plymouth, New Hampshire. Creeley wrote articles that normally got featured in the schools literary magazine. Robert Creeley also attended Harvard University, but his studies at the university were interrupted by a year with the American Field Service in India and Burma.
Once Robert Creeley returned to Harvard University, he got married. Upon Robert Creeley’s marriage he left Harvard University without graduating. Also in the year of 1948, Creeley decided to move to New Hampshire to try out subsistence farming. He tried subsistence farming to try to grow enough food to feed his family, as well as himself.
Around the 1950’s, Creeley was associated with a group of writers known as the Black Mou...
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...y never failed to express his personally experienced emotions, they were always present. Robert Creeley showed emotion in his poetry, it just wasn’t recognized or noticed.
Creeley recognized the jazz musicians of the 1950’s as very important influences of his writing. He said they taught him that “you can write directly from that which you feel” (Holman and Snyder). Although he found inspiration from musical arts, Creeley was also greatly inspired by visual arts. He collaborated with artists like Francesco Clemente and with Robert Indiana.
“Robert Creeley was recognized as one of the most influential and important poets of his time” (poetry foundation). Robert and Charles Olson both influenced the new form of poetry called projective verse, and it changed poetry. Robert Creeley, a very important and influential man died on March 30, 2005 in Odessa, Texas.
The author was born in Washington D.C. on May 1, 1901. Later, he received a bachelor’s degree from Williams College where he studied traditional literature and explored music like Jazz and the Blues; then had gotten his masters at Harvard. The author is a professor of African American English at Harvard University. The author’s writing
Robert Frost is very successful poet from the 20th century, as well as a four time Pulitzer Prize winner. Robert Frost work was originally published in England and later would be published in the US. He was also considered one of the most popular and respected poets of his century. Robert Frost created countless of poems and plays, many of them containing similar themes. Some of the most popular themes found in his poems encompass isolation, death and everyday life.
When he was fifteen years old, his mother died from appendicitis. From fifteen years of age to his college years, he lived in an all-white neighborhood. From 1914-1917, he shifted from many colleges and academic courses of study as well as he changed his cultural identity growing up. He studied physical education, agriculture, and literature at a total of six colleges and universities from Wisconsin to New York. Although he never completed a degree, his educational pursuits laid the foundation for his writing career.
Robert Lee Frost began life in San Francisco on March 26, 1874. For an unknown reason, Frost believed for years that he was actually born in 1875. When Frost’s father died in 1885 his mother decided to move closer to her wealthy parents in Massachusetts. In California, Frost had dropped out of kindergarten after one day, and upon returning to the first grade, also dropped out. This was no deterrent on Frost to attend college. He was accepted to Harvard but instead attended Dartmouth because of his financial situation. Even though Frost found the school to be anything but challenging, he would not finish his time at Dartmouth, nor earn any formal degree in a school (Bengtsson). He once said of schooling that “Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.” Interestingly enough, Robert Frost held several postions at credible schools, including Amherst and Harvard. Also, Frost was awarded an incredible amount of honorary degrees from Berkley to Yale (Parini 59). Frosts careers also ranged from editing for Henry Holt to raising poultry on his Derry, New Hampshire farm.
Literature has played a large role in the way we perceive the world and it can affect the way in which we think about things. Edgar Allan Poe along with Mark Twain are two of the most influential authors that our world has ever seen. Their descriptiveness and diction has had a huge impact on their readers for centuries. Poe’s gothic style of writing was very enthralling and suspenseful; it left you wanting to know what was going to happen next. Whereas, Mark Twain was a very humorous author that intended to amuse all that read. The descriptiveness that was incorporated by these world-renown authors is tremendous.
In 1968, Francine Prose graduated from Radcliffe college. She graduated with summa cum laude honors with a Bachelors degree in English. Soon after she graduated in 1969, Prose went on to begin a masters degree program at Harvard University(Carrigan). Prose soon realized that she was not cut out for grad school(Bolicks). Francine Prose left the Harvard program not that long after she joined in the year 1971 (Carrigan). She soon embarked on a trip to Mumbai, India ...
...Lowell and he may have been a bit crazy from the alcohol abuse but his writing has impacted everyone. His themes are used wonderfully, and he has mastered the art of poetry through his different and intriguing dark gothic genre.
In 1959 his family moved to Long Beach, Indiana where he attended first, a Catholic Elementary School (Notre Dame), and then a private Catholic boarding school (La Lumiere in La Porte, Indiana). John then entered Harvard with aspirations of becoming a history professor. After graduating from Harvard, summa cum laude, after only three years, He then attended the School of Law at Harvard. It was at Harvard law school that John discovered his passion for law and graduated, magna cum laude, with a J.D. In 1979. While at Harvard Law School he also he was also the managing editor of the Harvard Law Review (John Roberts Biography).
Robert Creeley, a famous American poet, lived from 1926 to 2005. Creeley was normally associated as a Black Mountain poet because that is where he taught, and spent most of his career. Throughout his life, Creeley wrote many different pieces of poetry. Four great poems by Robert Creeley are, “For Love”, “Oh No”, “The Mirror”, and “The Rain”. The poem “For Love”,was written by Creeley for his wife. In this poem Creeley explains, the love someone has for another person, and how complicated it is making his life because the person doesn’t know how to explain their love. “Oh No” is a poem that is literally about a selfish person who ended up in hell, but this poem has a deeper meaning. Part
Phillis Wheatley overcame extreme obstacles, such as racism and sexism, to become one of the most acclaimed poets in the 18th Century. Her works are characterized by religious and moral backgrounds, which are due to the extensive education of religion she received. In this sense, her poems also fit into American Poetry. However, she differs in the way that she is a black woman whose writings tackle greater subjects while incorporating her moral standpoint. By developing her writing, she began speaking out against injustices that she faced and, consequently, gave way to authors such as Gwendolyn Brooks and Countee Cullen.
Not many people would mind having the title of a poet, except maybe one of the most influential artists of all time. (Kennedy and Gioia, 599) Bob Dylan was a remarkable protest singer and songwriter during the Vietnam Era with many well-remembered songs about war and many other significant topics concerning the era. He has influenced many modern day songwriters and many other famous bands such as the Beatles. (Marinucci, Steve)
Skinner exceled and enjoyed the school. He finished second in his high school class and was accepted to Hamilton College, a small liberal arts school in New York. Skinner had an intense passion for writing and wanted to become a writer. When Skinner was in college he met the famous poet Robert Frost. Frost asked Skinner to send him some of his work and Frost was very impressed with Skinner’s writing.
Robert Frost was born in San Franciso on March 26, 1874, but later moved to Lawrence, Massachuschusetts (after his father died) where he did most of his writing. He was a simple man who taught, worked in a mill, was a reporter, was a New England farmer, and wrote. Throughout his life he had always been interested in literature. He attended Dartmouth College, but remained less than one semester. In 1894 he sold his first work “My Butterfly: An Elegy” to a New York journal. A year later he married Elinor White. From 1897 to 1899 he attended Harvard College as a special student but left before he acquired his degree. For the next ten years he wrote poems, operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire, and taught at Derry’s Pinkerton Academy.
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...ody can write a poem so unique that it makes the reader think into what the poet means. This journal showed me that every author has different qualities and that no one writes the same way and that Robert Frosts has a lot of power in some areas and lacks power in others.