Amy Lowell

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.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born on December 10th, 1830, in Amherst Massachusetts to Emily Norcross Dickinson and Edward Dickinson who were very well known during this time and had a high social status. Emily Dickinson was one out of three children. Her sibling’s names were Austin and Lavinia. Austin was the oldest, then Emily, then Lavinia (Kirk 10). Like her mother, Emily Dickinson often fell ill resulting in her having to spend large amounts

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.

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

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.

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.

Amy Chua is obviously very opinionated. There is a lot of controversy surrounding her memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, in which she was very harsh towards her daughters and made it clear that her parenting methods were better than those of a Western parent. There is no manual on parenting, but how do we know when we as parents cross the line between being concerned for our child’s future and being overbearing? Being a parent myself, I know firsthand that it gets frustrating and sometimes, that inner control can be lost. Amy demonstrated this challenge plenty of times. I acknowledge that Amy may have thought she was motivating her children to be strong, successful women but I don’t think she

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 was born December 10, 1830, Amherst, MA to Edward Dickinson, a Yale graduate and politician, and Emily Norcross Dickinson. She was the middle child with an older brother, William Austin Dickinson and a younger sister, Lavinia Norcross Dickinson. She went to school at Amherst Academy for seven years (1840–1847) and she went to Mount Holyoke College. Emily Dickinson is very well-known for her life of social seclusion. Though she is known as one the greatest poets of all time, she was not known of as a great poet during her lifetime. After she died her sister, Lavinia, found hundreds of poems Emily had written. Without these poems, American Literature would have been set back many years. She, along with Walt Whitman, is considered

The childhood of Emily Dickinson was similar to other girls around her age and time, taking a turn during her young adult life. “Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst on December 10, 1830, the second child of Edward and Emily Dickinson” (Donoghue 451). She lived with her father, mother, older brother William Austin, and younger sister Lavinia

A recent article from the Washington Post’s Heath & Science section focuses on a woman named Rachel Miller and her almost five year struggle to figure out the cause and, ultimately the solution to a baffling series of symptoms that were undermining her physical health and mental well-being. The article entitled “Medical Mysteries: Doctors puzzled by woman’s dizziness and amplified body sounds”, reiterates, the steps involved in dealing with her bizarre illness and the lengths Rachel goes to in order to find solutions to her problems. In 2007, Rachel first started to experience strange sensations,

Amy Winehouse was born on September 14, 1983 to Janis and Mitch Winehouse in London, England. Unfortunately, she died on July 23, 2011 of alcohol poisoning. She had an older brother, Alex. In the book, Amy, My Daughter, written by her father Mitch Winehouse, he says that as a child Amy was always putting on talent shows for her family and enjoyed being the center of attention. She inherited her musical talent from her father’s side of the family, since he and his mother both sang. Amy got her academic talents from her mom, who taught her how to read and write before she started school and got Amy interested in mathematics. Even though, Amy was considered to be a smart and clever girl, she dreaded school and thought it was boring and unchallenging. She would often get in trouble because she would be disruptive in class when she played jokes and was consisted to be a loud person. Then when she was in trouble she would get in more trouble for singing since that was her way of calming herself down. This happened all throughout her school years, even when she convinced her parents in letting her attend Sylvia Young Theater School.

“I feel ashamed to go naked about the world” (Whitman). Poetry, for many, is a comfort and a pleasure for the senses. But, for Walt Whitman, it was something much more. Poetry was a channel for his most profound emotions and a mass broadcasting of his entire being. In his beautiful words, he was able not only to convey both misery and elation to the masses, but absolute truth. His Leaves of Grass revealed so much about his persona that it served as, perhaps, one of the most beautifully written American autobiographies. It has been said that a true artist must let himself be vulnerable to the world—allowing for critics and skeptics to take him apart like vultures-- and Whitman published his poems and walked amongst his peers naked for all to see. For him to be a homosexual on top of all of this was an even bigger component of his revealed “shame”, but he revealed it nonetheless. In “I Sing the Body Electric,” “The Sleepers,” and “Song of Myself,” Whitman conveys a personal theme of homosexuality through his imagery of the male physique.

Emily Dickinson 's works made her a woman ahead of her time, through her unwillingness to conform to the norms of society. Emily Dickinson was a poet from the 1850s. Many people tried to urge Dickinson to publish, but she then had to start worrying about her punctuation in her works. Her works held great power and they reached maturity quite quickly as she talks about how dense the natural world is in one of her poems “I taste a liquor never brewed”.

To be a successful poet, your work must be able to be deciphered by a large audience. According to the Poetry Foundation, “his [Robert Lowell] true greatness as an American poet lies in the astonishing variety of his work”. Throughout his poetry, Lowell has shown his ability to write in both formal, metered verse as well as free verse. Formal poetry or metrical verse follows rules regarding stanza length and meter or rhyme patterns. Back then this type of poetry would appeal more to an educated white audience who could decipher complicated rhyme patterns. Free verse poetry, however would appeal to the less educated working class because there is an absence of rhyme patterns or complicated rule sets. So as a result of being able to write in many varieties of styles Lowell can reach a much greater audience. Another way Lowell has an effect on readers is through the use of witty exploitations of the meanings and