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“America” by Allen Ginsberg is a free verse about a rant on America. He asks a question “America when will we end the human war? / Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb. / I don’t feel good don’t bother me” (Ginsberg). Ginsberg is relating back to World War I and II and how he hated it. He seems like the type of guy that does not like war, nor the weapons that were used during that time. In addition, he goes on saying “Your machinery is too much for me.” (Ginsberg). In America, there are a lot of…

Robert Frost, the biography of a great mind. Robert Frost was a leading American poet in the 20th - century poets and a four time winner of the Pulitzer Prize (Brit Encyclopedia 12). He actually became a celebrity in his time, and our nearly official poet of the white house. Though his work is Principally connected to New England and he used traditional poetry, his poetry was and is anything but traditional. Robert Frost changed America’s views on poetry by introducing many new types…

To write about fear and the overcoming of it is not a new concept-Poe's works thrive on it, and empowering poems like W. E. Henley's "Invictus" teach us all about how to best it. "The Waste Places" by James Stephens is very much the same. Through its use of extended metaphor/symbolism of a lion stalking in a desert, Stephens creates a profound allegory about fear and how to overcome it. It is important to note that Stephens begins the poem claiming he is a "naked man" who runs through the…

“The Road Not Taken” – Robert Frost Robert Frost was one of the greatest pastoral poet of America in the 20th century. Robert published his first work in England in 1910. Since 1920, Robert became the most popular poet with four 4 Pulitzer Prize: New Hampshire (1923), Collected Poems (1930), A Further Range (1936) and A Witness Tree (1942). In 1960, the U.S Congress had awarded Robert for his recognition in poetry for enriching the American literature as well as the World’s philosophy. Robert’s…

“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” This quote from William Butler Yeats expresses how one’s heritage and background can affect a person’s way of life. Also true of this is how one’s heritage can affect one’s work, as it did with Yeats and his poetry. Some of his more popular works are things like The Celtic Twilight, To Ireland in the Coming Times, or A Prayer to My Daughter. However, where he born elsewhere, everything from…

Poem: “anyone lived in a pretty how town” by E.E. Cummings Introduction and Thesis: Living in the adult world is often considered to be monotonous and mundane. It becomes easy to adopt to this orthodox lifestyle, and becomes difficult to escape from it. However, this conventional tradition is considered to be dangerous. This is shown in E.E. Cummings’s poem, “anyone lived in a pretty how town.” Cummings uses figurative languages such as symbolism, repetition, and paradox in order to…

Both Heller and Eliot, in Catch 22 and The Wasteland, respectively, use the modern structure of fragmentation to emphasize the disillusionment and despair that come as a result of a war. In The Wasteland, Eliot begins with the imagery of a barren land, laying a foundation for his poem about nothingness after World War I. Throughout “The Burial of the Dead”, he references the hyacinth girl, a reference to the woman who held the Holy Grail that could restore the lands. However, he notes, “I could…

Japan as Number One: Lessons for America, written by Ezra Vogel, an American sociologist, published in 1979, begins his inciting curiosity for his research from his background in Harvard where he earned a Ph.D. in Social Relations. Vogel set out as a social scientist seeking “generalizations about the family and mental health that would hold true cross-culturally” (Vogel, Pg.1). Later on this bled into his curiosity for Japan, where he would study its connection to America and other countries as…

Before I beginning do The Discovery Wheel, I thought it would be like an activity that tells me about my study skill. On the activity said this will tell me about what kind of student I am and what I wanted to be. I thought my result will turn out all very low. I think myself is not the types that like to read, take note in class or have a good memorize nothing like that. That is just how I was in high school. When I finished the activity, the wheel is not smooth. The line goes up…

If someone were to see Judson Bliss, the Director of Homeless Programs at St. Patrick Center in downtown St. Louis, at work, they might notice the water bottle he often carries around with him. Wrapped around Bliss’ water bottle is a simple bracelet that conveys much deeper meaning about the work that he does, and a large-scale issue in American society: homelessness. The bracelet Bliss’ son, an Affton High School student, gave to him, was a fundraising bracelet for the son’s math teacher whose…