Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807 in Portland, Maine to the mother Zilpah Wadsworth and the father Stephen Longfellow who was a politician and a lawyer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an influential American poet, translator (He was the first American poet to translate Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Divine Comedy) and a professor at the Harvard University.
One of Longfellow's most pretentious work is Evangeline: A tale of Acadie, an epic poem which follows the Acadian girl Evangeline and her search for her love Gabriel, a poem set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians (The forced removal by the British of the French colonist from the present day US state of Maine and several Canadian provinces, dated 1755-1764), a poem that had a powerful effect in not only defining Acadian history, but also its identity throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century. The poem was published in 1874 and became Longfellow's Magnum Opus.
During Longfellow's lifetime he was considered to be the very best of all American poets, as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. declared that Longfellow was the best American poet he has yet to see, and praised his ability to write the way he did: even though that most of Longfellow's work has been categorized as lyric poetry and widely translated and published in other languages; Italian, German and French to note a few, Longfellow experimented with a variety of style forms such as hexameter (A metrical line of a verse consisting of six feet – where as in feet are the basic metrical unit that yields a line of a verse in poetry) and free verse (An open form of poetry which follows the rhythm of natural speech instead of consistent meter patterns, rhyme or such musical pattern).
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...many in his famous “Breakfast-Table” essay series which had a conversational tone, which came into the mainstream thanks to James Russell Lowell, the editor of Atlantic Monthly, who published it.
The Atlantic Monthly came to serialize his novel Elsie Venner in 1859, though popular in most circles, this first novel of Holmes was condemned to be heretical by some churches, meanwhile, others viewed it as an assault on Calvinism. Later on in 1886, Holmes travelled to Europe for the second time, and while in London, Holmes was praised as a great writer with the primary source of his essays (Especially The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table) being the reason, however, Holmes had always wanted to be well known for his poetry.
It was in these essays that Holmes revealed how poetry can infiltrate an entire life – of which his own life ended on October 7, 1894 of natural causes.
Paul Revere’s great ride through the night to save the americans from the huge british force was a big piece of American history during that time. Many have written about Paul Revere but longfellow doesn't tell the whole story. Longfellow's poem doesn't tell the whole story but Paul’s letter does.
For a while he finished the stories, but with debts and great public support he created another collection of the Holmes stories, due to the fact they were in high demand. Conan Doyle sadly died in Crowborough, Sussex, England, on July 7, 1930. Holmes is an intellectual detective who although spends a lot of the time by his self still depend on a valiant partner to accompany him on his cases, in this case Dr Watson. Dr Watson, in the Sherlock Holmes stories, is portrayed as particularly as an average British person helping his friend in his cases. Because he is portrayed as this it helps us see ourselves in the story along with Holmes therefore, intriguing the reader to usually read more.
George Washington Carver was born in 1864 and it was a time that was very different from today. Carver was born a slave in the state of Missouri. George Washington Carver was a great chemist among many other talents, but his early life was very difficult.His parents were Mary and Giles who were
Walt Whitman was a famous American poet who wrote many great poems during the Civil War. Though he originally worked for printing presses and newspapers, he later became a famous poet. During the Civil War, Whitman wrote many patriotic poems that supported the ideas of the North. Whitman’s poems will forever be linked to the American Civil War era of poetry. Walt Whitman was an iconic American poet with an interesting life that later impacted his works of poetry.
Free-verse is a style of poetry that doesn’t rhyme or have a regular meter. It gives freedom to the author
“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.” –Edgar Allan Poe. Poetry is one of the world’s greatest wonders. It is a way to tell a story, raise awareness of a social or political issue, an expression of emotions, an outlet, and last but not least it is an art. Famous poet Langston Hughes uses his poetry as a musical art form to raise awareness of social injustices towards African-Americans during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. Although many poets share similarities with one another, Hughes creatively crafted his poetry in a way that was only unique to him during the 1920’s. He implemented different techniques and styles in his poetry that not only helped him excel during the 1920’s, but has also kept him relative in modern times. Famous poems of his such as a “Dream Deferred,” and “I, Too, Sing America” are still being studied and discussed today. Due to the cultural and historical events occurring during the 1920’s Langston Hughes was able to implement unique writing characteristics such as such as irregular use of form, cultural and historical referenced themes and musical influences such as Jazz and the blues that is demonstrative of his writing style. Langston Hughes use of distinct characteristics such as irregular use of form, cultural and historical referenced themes and musical influences such as Jazz and the blues helped highlight the plights of African-Americans during the Harlem Renaissance Era.
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...mes’ lifestyle. Holmes, throughout his life was a criminal. Holmes desire to murder people was believed to come from from his desensitized feeling about dead bodies. This was due to his medical career. As mentioned earlier, when Holmes was in medical school, he had many dealings with cadavers and was very familiar with them. Later, when he began killing he did not look at the bodies as human beings, but as material or later, cash money. This relationship between crime and deviance is mainly why I choose this book. I feel that H. H. Holmes, although Holmes was a strange and demented man, was very successful. This success questions what makes people successful: is it your status, education, or was it his determination?
On page 39, it describes the moment in which bullies from his school force him to go face to face with a skeleton in a doctor’s office. Such a terrible experience truly could have scarred Holmes, but at the same time his comfortability with an representation of death could have prompted his killer roots. Also, the “accidental” death of Holmes’s childhood friend, at an event that Holmes was present, was another red flag in terms of potentially becoming a psychopath. We learn more of Holmes’s younger upbringing through the text in which it states,"He drifted through childhood as a small, odd, and exceptionally bright boy....in the cruel imaginations of his peers, he became prey" (Larson, 38) Holmes was essentially an outcast, a person who has been rejected by society or a social group. He was the target of many because of his oddness and rather unique characteristics. With no solid upbringing, and a probable fascination with death, Holmes was bound to be the infamous serial killer he became in his future.
Time is endlessly flowing by and its unwanted yet pending arrival of death is noted in the two poems “When I Have Fears,” by John Keats and “Mezzo Cammin,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Keats speaks with no energy; only an elegiac tone of euphoric sounds wondering if his life ends early with his never attained fame. He mentions never finding a “fair creature” (9) of his own, only experiencing unrequited love and feeling a deep loss of youth’s passion. Though melancholy, “Mezzo Cammin,” takes a more conversational tone as Longfellow faces what is commonly known as a midlife crisis. The two poems progressions contrast as Keats blames his sorrow for his lack of expression while Longfellow looks at life’s failures as passions never pursued. In spite of this contrast, both finish with similar references to death. The comparable rhyme and rhythm of both poems shows how both men safely followed a practiced path, never straying for any spontaneous chances. The ending tones evoking death ultimately reveal their indications towards it quickly advancing before accomplish...
H.G. Wells was born on September 21, 1866 in Bromley, Kent a suburb of London. His father, Joseph Wells, and his mother, Sarah, were married in 1853 and they
Edgar Allan Poe was a celebrated author who wrote many poems and short stories in the 19th century. Poe was known for his romanticism and the mysterious feeling that was sure to be felt through many of his tales. Edgar Allan Poe was himself, quite a mystery. One of the strangest parts of his character that highlights the mystery within him was his obsession with death. This obsession was most likely rooted from the fact that many of his loved ones had untimely deaths. His mother died when he was very young from tuberculosis (Dameron). Following in the footsteps of the depressing death of his mother, many years later Poe’s young wife died of the same disease, tuberculosis. Many other members of Poe 's family died from various causes,
Whitman wrote in ambitious proportions, while creating a style of rhythmic structure, creating stanzas and complex lines. By Whitman making his works synonymous it truly recognizes him as a great American Poet. With Whitman using free verse poetry he was able to change the original idea of structure with the rhythm of cadence, this helped people to emphasize poetry as an expression. With Whitman he uses non-orthodox type of structuring his poetry; he traditionally does not have a type of length for his works of stanzas, poems, or his lines.
Edgar Allan Poe, “the father of the detective story” (“Edgar Allan Poe Biography”), was an American author and critic in the 1800’s. Unlike other authors of his time, Poe wrote depressing and morbid stories. Poe had a difficult life, which was shown in various works of his. Poe’s tragedies started when he was a toddler. Poe was an orphan, along with his older brother and infant sister. Sadly, Poe and his siblings were separated when they were toddlers. Unfortunately, Poe had an upbringing of death; his life was greatly affected by tuberculosis. In the 1800’s, tuberculosis killed 10,000 people per day (Baudelaire), among these people were Poe’s loved ones. Poe’s birth mother, Elizabeth; his foster mother, Frances; his brother, Henry; and his wife, Virginia died