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Why Is Shakespeare An Influential Poet?

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There were many influential poets that have existed throughout history. William Shakespeare is a prime example of an influential poet. There are also a huge amount of styles that poetry have. There are some type of poetry where one follows rigid guidelines like sonnets, where one follows a specific rhyme scheme and an iambic pentameter, or a haiku, which has three lines and the first and last line have five syllables while the second line has seven. There are other types where one has no requirements, and writes has they please, like free verse poetry. That is not all that there is to poetry. There are tons and tons of figurative language in them; similes, hyperboles, and metaphors are just some examples of an endless list of figurative language. Poetry can also be affected by the time period and place. For …show more content…

He garnered attention as a poet that wrote in Imagist style. He put his writing career on hold to fight in World War I. He was deeply affected by his time in the war and that was shown in his post-war writings. His works were considered to be extremely pessimistic after returning from the trenches. “A Times Literary Supplement reviewer notes that in these poems Aldington increases the contrast ‘between the integrity and cleanliness of the Greeks ...and the dingy muddle of the present’” (“Richard Aldington”). Richard Aldington became more of a writer and critic in his later years. He translated and edited many works. In 1954, the public’s opinion of Richard diminished drastically since his biography on the legendary Lawrence Arabia was written mostly on legend, and the public did not like that; a couple years later the public’s opinion of Richard subsided a little, and he continued to make works. In 1962 he was invited to go to the Soviet Union by Alexei Surkov, secretary of the Soviet Writers Union; he thoroughly enjoyed his time spent there. Richard Aldington died in

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