Edwin Arlington Robinson
"Robinson has been the subject of more speculation…than almost any other poet of our time" (Franchere 7). Numerous events in his life are reflected through his poetry. Edwin Arlington Robinson was born on December 22, 1869 in his father's home in Head Tide, Maine beside the Sheepscot River. His family moved to the town of Gardiner, Maine, which was only a few miles away, when he was six months old. Gardiner is Tilbury Town used in his poems. He is the son of Edward and Mary Palmer Robinson. Dean and Herman were his older brothers, Dean being twelve years older, and Herman four years older. Researchers assume that he found no companionship with his brothers. However, one of his companions was an old shabby rocking chair. In that chair young Robinson would rock, read, and reflect upon the misfortune of his birth.
Dean, gifted and intelligent, was at twenty-two on his way to what all believed would be a highly successful career in medicine. Herman, handsome, outgoing, and always popular, unavoidably kept his younger brother in the shadow. The father's attention, at any rate, appears to have been devoted chiefly to Dean and Herman; it was almost as if Win (Edwin) had been an unplanned and unexpected child and, therefore, usually ignored (Franchere, 15).
It was during his high school career that he met Emma Shepherd. She was a beautiful girl from Farmingdale that attended a dancing school. Robinson fell in love with her, but it is unknown as to how much she loved him. Nevertheless, she sent him flowers on his high school graduation day. Everything changed in the summer of 1889. Robinson's suave and svelte brother, Herman, had returned from St. Louis. He became fond of Emma and sought her affection. They married in February of 1890. Robinson refused to attend the wedding because he could not bring himself to witness it. His other brother, Dean, loved Emma as well and attempted suicide on the night of the marriage.
Robinson's life was full of emotional tribulations. In 1892, Robinson's father, Edward, died after a gradual deterioration. By 1893 America was in a major depression. Edward Robinson had accumulated a considerable fortune that was critically reduced. 1896 was when Robinson's mother died of "black diphtheria." There were no morticians available, which caused the three sons to have to dig her grave and bury her.
Jackie kept his composure in the nation’s spotlight. Once 1947 came around, Jackie Robinson was officially a Brooklyn Dodger. Some players did not adapt well to the idea of a Negro baseball player on their team and even signed petitions to either get him off the team or to demand to be traded. Burt Shotton, manager of the dodgers at the time, called a meeting and told the players if they did not want to cooperate they were not going to be traded but dropped from the team which in turn ended the protest. Even the Brooklyn Dodgers general manager, Leo Durocher told his players that he would rather trade all of his white players before he traded Jackie Robinson. So Jackie was not alone in his seemingly impossible battle. People had respect for
Jackie Robinson, born Jack Roosevelt Robinson, is known for being the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball. He was born on January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia as the grandson of a slave. He was the youngest of five children and at six months old his father left them. At this time, because it was so hard for African-Americans in the south, his mother Mallie Robinson decided to move them to Pasadena, California where it was easier for African-Americans to live and find jobs.
Adolph Myers, a kind and gentle man "[ is] meant by nature to be a teacher of youth"(215), however, the towns' people can not understand that the male school teacher - a not so common phenomenon at the time--spoke soothingly with his hands and voice only to "carry a dream into the young minds" (215) of his students. The young school teacher was wrongfully accused of doing "unspeakable things" to his students, and as a result was beaten and run out of town without being given a chance to explain the his love for the children was pure, and that he had done nothing wrong. Therefore, as young Adolph Myers, whose only crime is of being a good and caring person runs out of Pennsylvania, old Wing Biddlebaum, the lonely and confused victim of a close-minded society walks into Winesburg Ohio.
It was reported that Nathaniel Ayers has two sisters, Jennifer and Delsenia, and a brother whom the family called “Tony”. His mother was a beautician and his father ultimately left the family .It is reported that Nathaniel reflects his mother’s positive influence. It is reported that in Nathaniel’s teenage years he
He had been forced to live with rebuffs and rejections for his whole life. He also like Feng Ru overcame it and made history. The Brooklyn Dodgers owner Branch Rickey took a big risk by doing this. Most his friends told him to quit the experiment. A player on the Dodgers named Pee Wee Reese became a good friend of Robinson. Robinson also faced death attempts, can you imagine almost being killed by someone?
He loved his mother dearly and he greatly respected his dad. Coolidge's father John was a man of many careers. He held a position in office as a politician and several other jobs throughout the small town (Lawerence). Death intruded into their lives by taking Coolidge's mother in 1885, and later taking Abigail in 1890 from appendicitis. (Greenburg, 17) (Moran, 1). The distress within the family was great but in time Coolidge's father remarried to Carrie Brown, who lived until May 18, 1920. Though death was a very big part of Coolidge's life he managed to get through. Finally, his father passed away in 1926 leaving Coolidge emotionally drained. Death never discouraged him though. He kept moving up in the political world, never giving up, and always trying to be the best man he could be (Moran, 7, 21).
Victor Frankenstein experiences an idealic youth, his parents were “indulgent” and his companions were “amiable” (21) His parents’ encouraged their children to pursue their schooling with dedication by “having the end placed in view” (21) and teaching them short-cuts, eliminateing tedious lessons, rather then viewing school as punishment or “the voice of command” (26) Therefore Frankstein would have learned a greater amount and have...
Lucius Beebe critically analyzes Edwin Arlington Robinson’s, The Mill best. Beebe’s analysis is from an objective point of view. He points out to the reader that what seems so obvious may not be. She notes “The Mill is just a sad little tale of double suicide brought on by the encroachment of the modern world and by personal loss.” Thus meaning The Mill carries a deeper underlying theme. Lucius Beebe expresses that a minor overflow of significant details has been exposed over Edwin Arlington Robinson's "The Mill," much of it concerned with whether the miller's wife did indeed drown herself after the miller had hanged himself. Another, even more provocative question has never been asked: did the Miller actually hang himself? Beebe suggests a close examination of the text suggests that both deaths may be imaginative constructs that exist only in the mind of the miller's wife.
Back Back Back Back Back and GONE. This is what people heard many times when Jackie Robinson was up to bat whether they liked it or not. Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in the MLB in 1947 which changed the game of baseball forever (America’s). Jackie Robinson faced many hardships such as fans treating him harshly saying folderol while playing on the field, players treating him bad, and not having anywhere to sleep even though he was very athletic even at a very young age.
Jackie Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo Georgia to a family of sharecroppers (“Jackie Robinson” 2). Robinson was the youngest of five and was raised by a single mother after his father ran off with a neighbor’s wife just months after his birth. The plantation owner ordered the Robinsons off the land (“Jackie Robinson” 2). The Robinson family moved to California to seek a better life. By being the only black family on the block the Robinson kids were singled out as troublemakers (“Baseball” 1). The kids grew up with racism being a daily problem. Robinson once said “Pasadena treated us as intruders. My brother and I were in many a fight that started with a racial slur on the very street we lived on” (Robinson 1).
Jane, Elizabeth, and Lydia portray that growing up in the same household, with the same parents, and in the same environment can still yield very different personalities. Jane, the eldest, is bene...
Squire Hamley and his disable wife are close friends to Molly and her father. On occasion, Molly would spend time with the Hamley’s who lover as if she was one of their own children. The Hamley’s have two son’s inspiring to be scholars of science at Cambridge University. Squire and his wife, dote on their oldest son Osborne because they consider him to be a genius with a guarantee successful future and riches. On the other hand, Roger is portrayed as a passive vessel that won’t amount to nothing more than a good lad with no grand success in his future. The youngest son Roger returned home from Cambridge to report news about the oldest son, Osborne and his failure to meet the standards of the scholars at Cambridge. When Molly’s eyes met Roger’s lovely face, she quickly became ench...
Central to the story lines of Middlemarch, written by George Eliot, and Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy, is the theme of ambition and the tempering of expectations both to social difficulties, and on a broader scale, human frailty. Dorthea Brooke and Sue Brideshead display elements of the “new woman” and both are driven to accomplish what each desires. Both are intelligent and educated women. The contrast in the two comes from the different motives each has to separate themselves from the norm. Sue is self-centered in her “independence,” while Dorthea is an ardent spokeswoman for social reform and justice. Both women follow different paths, neither ending up at a position they once knew they would attain. Dorthea is depicted early in the novel as having an intimidating presence; however, at a dinner with the supposedly learned and intelligent Mr. Casaubon, she feels quite uneasy. He is an older man with an unattractive appearance which goes completely unnoticed to the “lovestruck” Dorthea. Her sister Celia comments, “How very ugly Mr. Casaubon is!” Dorthea responds by comparing him to a portrait of Locke and says he is a “distinguished looking gentleman.” Later, after dinner, Casaubon and Dorthea discuss religious matters and she looks at him in awe because of his supposed superior intellect. “Here was a man who could understand the higher inward life…a man who’s learning almost amounted to proof of whatever he believed!”(p. 24). As intelligent as Dorthea is, she failed to see Casaubon for the man he really is, and will be, in marriage. Casaubon proposes to her and she accepts. She sees this as an opportunity to further advance her own intellectual abilities and help a great man complete his studies.
Both poems make a point to stress loneliness. Robinson’s poem seems to be addressing the reader more in a universal way, which is in keeping with the typical female writer of the time. The characters in Robinson’s poem do not have any names, thus enhancing this universality of the piece. The first line of the poem inserts the reader into the scene without any address or notice, “Upon a lonely beach,” and a theme that exists for both writers becomes apparent—that of loneliness.(see poem) Robinson does not harp on it as Coleridge does. For him, it seems to be a personal fear that haunts him, as do many other things throughout the poem. (see poem) For Robinson, though, the “lonely desert beach” is the setting and not explicitly given to the reader as a personal fear, however an interpretation as such is not out of the question. She just does not get as personal with the reader in her language. One could imagine implanting themselves into the role of the wedding guest, and engaging in discourse with the mariner. Isolation exists in both these poems through loneliness. For Coleridge it is the earlier mentioned “fear at my heart,” and for Robinson it could be due to her failing health at the time she wrote this poem. Nonetheless, both seem to grapple with the consequences of isolation on one’s identity.
3. “The surprise of finding himself almost alone with Anne Elliot deprived his manners of their usual composure” (70).