Carl Sandburg Carl Sandburg was Pulitzer Prize winning poet, biographer to Abraham Lincoln, novelist, journalist, children's author, and collector of American folk songs. He grew up in the fields of Illinois, traveled from Kansas to Puerto Rico, campaigned for the socialist party, and was ...

Let Us Be True My LoveAn interpretation of the poem"Dover Beach"Before we can discuss Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach," a brief biography of the poet will help us understand the poem and the mood he is in while writing it. The reader should know that Matthew Arnold married Fanny Lucy Wightman at Dover...

"Dover Beach"Before we can discuss Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach," a brief biography of the poet will help us understand the poem and the mood he is in while writing it. The reader should know that Matthew Arnold married Fanny Lucy Wightman at Dover, despite her father's disapproval. Wightman's fath...

The event when the Titanic sank was devastating. It has been known as a major accident/disaster. Thomas Hardy's poem called "The Convergence of the Twain" about the Titanic was very detailed and well written in the ship's and iceberg's point of view (personification). He describes it this way beca...

The poem "Serpentine" is about the paths of both a black snake and a man, the poet. The man is experiencing the snake's final moment, and in this "dilated second" he reflects on how this moment came to pass. The poems speaks of the inevitability and predestination of death...

Most of analysis/interpretation of poem, including intro and start of 2nd body paragraph and conclusion: Authors of all types of literature, including stories, biographies, autobiographies, and poems, often incorporate a variety of literary devices into their works in order to express certain feeli...

In the late 1500\'s, male authors were constantly writing sonnets to keep up with the famous craze going throughout the hearts of the audience. One of the legendary sonnet creators in the history of English writing is William Shakespeare. His writing had its own style and individuality that kept the...

Sometimes authors were so famous that we know almost too much about them. Nobody can ever not find enough information writers like Shakespeare and Chaucer. Then there are others that there is almost nothing about them. However, historians have managed to find a happy medium for Robert Her...

John Clare was born in the village of Helpstone, Northamptonshire, England, in 1793. He was the son of an agricultural laborer, and he was a hedge setter, day laborer, and gardener at Burghley House from 1810 to 1811. He had no schooling so instead, he studied James Thompson\'s \"Seasons\" and began...

'The Intentional Fallacy', written by Wimsatt and Beardsley, suggests that a critic commits the aforementioned fallacy when they concern themselves with the authorial intention of a poet in writing a piece of work. The intentional fallacy, they say, is:A confusion between the poem and its origins . ...

Robert Frost once said, "Poetry is that which is lost in translation." I am inclined to agree with that statement. The ancient Greek poet Sappho instilled many strong emotions into her poetry. She carefully crafted her writing so it flowed from one verse to another. However, while trying m...

Theme for English B "Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes, is a poem about an assignment given to a student by his teacher to write a one-page paper about himself that captures who he is. The student then responds to this assignment by giving a brief biography, such as where he lives a...

It is strange how life can be given and taken away all in an instant, but literature will never die, it is always being reproduced and created by fresh authors trying to become the next big thing. Being an author of poetry in the late twentieth-century Margaret Atwood's works displayed strong femini...

John Keats was an English poet and letter writer. Keats was born in London on Oct. 31, 1795. Keats was the first of five children. In 1803, at the age of eight, Keats was sent to the Clarke Academy in Enfield, just north of London. At Enfield, Keats met his first literary mentor and loyal friend, ...

People long to find a passion in their lives, something they can not put down or forget. Robert Frost found his love in poetry and nature. Robert Frost was brought into thisworld in San Francisco, on March 26, 1874. As a young boy, Robert Frost had a normallife for a late-nineteenth century schoo...

Literature has been used, over time in history, as a medium throughwhich people can express their feelings and thoughts about significantevents that they experience in their lives. Because of this, literature isoften considered as a reflection or 'mirror' through which people canwitness an in...

People long to find a passion in their lives, something they can not put down or forget. Robert Frost found his love in poetry and nature. Robert Frost was brought into thisworld in San Francisco, on March 26, 1874. As a young boy, Robert Frost had a normallife for a late-nineteenth century schoo...

William Blake wrote during the Romantic period which between 1785 - 1830. Some said that the Romantic period was the fairy tale way of writing through symbolism and allegory and also an age for individualism. Blake was little known as a poet during his lifetime. His reputation became established l...

"Yes, I will be thy priest, and build a fane / In some untrodden region of my mind, / Where branched thoughts, new grown with pleasant pain / Instead of pines shall murmur in the wind" (Keats 848). This quote, taken from the last stanza of John Keats' "Ode to Psyche," exemplifies the meaning of th...