Amy Lowell

Emily Dickinson was American poet born on December 10, 1830, in the town of Amherst, Massachusetts. Amherst is located about 50 miles from Boston and it is a well know town for education her family Mansion was known as “The Homestead.”

Amy Lowell was a rebel, whos identity was to be different than others. Amy Lowell was interested in and influenced by the Imagists movement. Lowell earned a reputation for violating conservative standards by flaunting her obesity, swearing, smoking cigars, and having a same-sex lover. She wrote in traditional forms, as well as in free verse and polyphonic prose, often using several forms in a single poem. Amy Lowell’s work involved a combination of intertextuality, symbolism, and allusions.. I will analysis the following poems by Amy Lowell: “The Taxi” “Madonna of the evening flowers” “A decade” and “A lover”. Using these poems I will analyze her common themes, structure, and figurative imagery.

A famous English poet, journalist, and a humorist was born on May 23, 1799 named Thomas Hood. He was known for his work in Britain, United States, Germany, and Russia. His father named Thomas Hood was a partner in the bookselling and publishing firm of Vernor and Hood. His mother, Elizabeth Sands was the daughter of an engraver. Thomas Hood was one of the six children in the Hood family. His father later died 1811 and Hood became very ill that his family had to move to Dundee, Scotland. Something unusual about Thomas Hood is that he began to write when he was ill. Thomas Hood returned to London where he had an apprenticeship in the engraving trade and was hired by a former employee of his father in the Vernor and Hood bookselling and publishing

Emily Dickinson was one of the best American poets, but she is very famous for being a secluded writer. Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1846 in Amherst, Massachusetts and she died on May 15, 1886 at the age of 55 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her isolation from the outside world still confuses literary critics and readers of her poetry and letters. There are many theories developed over time about her seclusion. Some people believe her secluded way of life was her own choice but she was very close to her family. Emily Dickinson lived in a happy home and went to a school during her life. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830 and lived there all her life most of her life. An introduction into Emily Dickinson’s poetry themes, and discussion about the isolation in her life, and discussion about the isolation in her poetry will be examined in the paper.

Robert Lowell is commonly regarded as a highly influential American writer during the 20th century. From our discussions in class, we know that Robert Lowell was born into a wealthy Massachusetts family that could trace its roots back to the original settlers from the Mayflower, and included many famous and influential historical figures. Because of his family’s wealth, it may have seemed on the surface that Robert Lowell had a perfect life, and was free to pursue all his options. However, his poetry gives us an insight into his life as a child and the wrecked relationship between himself and his parents. As we have discussed several times in class, Lowell’s parents were largely absent both physically and emotionally and did not give him the attention he needed as a child. This resulted in a youth characterized by rebelling against his parents wishes in a cry for help and attention. Robert Lowell also discusses in detail the relationship he had with his grandfather, and the comfort and security that he was able to feel whenever he was with his grandfather. Through several poems, such as “My Last Afternoon With Uncle Devereux Wilson”, we can see that being in the presence of his grandfather allowed him to be released from his parents and feel welcome and loved. Growing up in Boston also had a significant impact on his poetry, as most of his poems take place somewhere in New England and focus on his experiences with the people and famous landmarks throughout New England.

Amy Lowell’s poem is about a woman in the 18th century, whom is bound by her own society as most women were at the time. One of the examples that showed her shackled and imprisoned was made apparent on how she dressed in the quote “Held rigid to the pattern, by the stiffness of my gown,” the gown stiffness here represent a symbol of her society and how she was held by it every single day in her life. Her society at that time wanted women to act passively by not expressing their feelings and emotions fully. Therefore, She tried to break the “pattern” in her life, by marrying her to be husband, whom she was in love with, but she was not able to express her emotions fully. Because her lover died in a war, to an extent when she heard the news about his death, she was not able to express her grief as society did not welcome this kind of behavior, making her stuck in this pattern, this Application of T.S. Eliot Theory on Amy Lowell’s “Patterns” will try to find whether Amy passes the Eliotian test of writing a successful modern poem or not.

It is with great pleasure that I am writing this letter for Mrs. Amy Wingerter in her pursuit of a teaching position in your district. As a Special Education Coach for the Lower Dauphin School District for the past three years, I have had the pleasure of working closely with Mrs. Wingerter in her capacity of Special Education teacher for our full-time emotional support program. Mrs. Wingerter cares deeply for the students, takes pride in developing the program, and is never willing to stop growing as a teacher.

In the article, “Why You Shouldn’t Pay Children for Grades,” Amy McCready details her argument against children receiving money as a reward for good grades. Her main point is expressed in her article as a sentence: “But no matter how much we want it to, money can’t buy smarts, motivation, or school success.” She is expressing her idea that paying kids will not genuinely help them. Within the article, McCready expresses her dislike of parents using payment to attempt to encourage student achievement. Her points include her belief that paying children won’t maintain high grades because kids lose interest and excitement over time. She also believes that payment for grades creates a negative attitude within the children and invoke a sense of entitlement.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst Massachusetts on December 10, 1830. Growing up she had two siblings with the names of William and Lavinia. Having roots deep into England, Emily’s paternal grandfather, Samuel Dickinson, was known as the founder of Amherst College. Luckily, she attended Amherst for seven years. She had also attended Holyoke Female Seminary, but only for one year. After these eight schooling years, her dad took her out of educating. Theories are offered to say, that Emily’s fragile, emotional state may have caused her dad to take her out of school. Emily never joined a particular church or denomination, in fact she was against the religions of the time.

Like many famed writers such as Confucius or Voltaire; Dickinson’s writings weren’t popularized for another century, when she and Walt Whitman grew to be known as the best 19th Century poets. The writer was born in December of 1830 to a devoutly Christian family in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was around the time of her birth that the transcendentalist movement exploded, and perhaps this is why she became so reclusive. It is also speculated that Dickinson suffered a romantic disappointment around this time, which is believed to also be why she retreated to such a secluded lifestyle, where she was left alone to her thoughts and writings. She withdrew from society in her teens and her only contact with others was through letters. Similarly to Lao Tzu and Henry David Thoreau, Dickinson became fascinated with nature. It was for a long duration of time that Emily’s work was entirely unrecognized and unknown.

A time of influential literary, social, political, and economic movements along with a multitude of famous global events, the 19th century was a period of rapid growth and reform. During this time, the fallout from the Civil War had a profound effect not only on the citizens of America but its writers as well, who had their beliefs vigorously challenged. In particular, Emily Dickinson, one of the most distinguished poets of the 19th century, had close relations with Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who fought in the war and frequently advised Dickinson (Emily Dickinson Museum). Commonly known for her extensive use of slant rhyme, lack of titles, and her unusual use of capitalization and punctuation, Dickinson’s brief yet complex poetry has had a significant effect on American literature.

Born in Amherst, Massachusetts to Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson, Emily began her life on December 10, 1830. Her father portrayed an important role where Emily grew up, and therefore she was able to attend Amherst Academy. There she earned 7 years of education and met inspiring figures that were draft into her writing. The inspiring folk were Leonard Humphrey, the principal at Amherst Academy, and Benjamin Franklin Newton, a family friend. After Amherst Academy, Emily became secluded at home and that is where the magic of her writing commenced.

She is most famous for her poems but she has done many other things. Her grandfather founded Amherst College and her dad is the co-founder. She got her education at the Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke College. Edward Dickinson, her dad, was a United States congressman from Massachusetts. Her mom was a fine cook. Her entire family was known to be very smart.

Emily Dickinson, recognized as one of the greatest American poets of the nineteenth century, was born December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts (Benfey, 1). Dickinson’s greatness and accomplishments were not always recognized. In her time, women were not recognized as serious writers and her talents were often ignored. Only seven of her 1800 poems were ever published. Dickinson’s life was relatively simple, but behind the scenes she worked as a creative and talented poet. Her work was influenced by poets of the seventeenth century in England, and by her puritan upbringing. Dickinson was an obsessively private writer. Dickinson withdrew herself from the social contract around the age of thirty and devoted herself, in secret, to writing.

On December 10, 1830 a poet was born. When Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, no one knew that she was to become the most well known woman poet of all time. She loved her family deeply. Her father was a man of great reverence in Amherst and her mother was an