“the mockingbird” is one of Charles Bukowski’s finest poems. For years, the leading poetry anthologies refused to recognize Bukowski and his poetry, despite the fact that he was one of the most influential poets in American letters during the Cold War period. This likely was rooted in a revulsion towards Bukowski’s subject mater. The “Poet ...
The human imagination, the ability to perceive another kind of reality made purely of thought, has always been the muse of artists and writers alike. Poets especially prize this human ability to imagine and create because it is the essence of their work, both for the poet himself and the reader. However, no contemporary poet ...
Pennsylvania has been the birthplace of many famous Americans. They are of course referred to as Pennsylvanians. This state is the sixth most populous state in the United States. There are many notable people who were born in this state or who spent a significant time in this state including authors, poets, writers, actors, journalists, ...
Industry and the urbanization of the American landscape had taken a stronghold by the early twentieth century. By the 1950s and 1960s, technology formed the American way of life. The union of man’s technological inventions with an American wilderness is metaphorically represented in Wallace Stevens’s poem, “Anecdote of the Jar.” The poem contains a modern ...
For the very reason that so many irrational and unattainable things exist in the universe, modern poetry exists; modern poets like Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Stevens, Yeats, Williams, Eliot, and Pound, each contributed to the modernist era by trying to make sense of the irrational, trying to find light in the darkness, order in the chaos. ...
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