Amy Lowell

2012 The Life of a So Called Lesbian Amy Lowell was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on February 9, 1874. She was the daughter of Augustus Lowell and Katherine Bigelow Lawrence. Both her mother and father were from New England aristocrats. Aristocrats are wealthy and prominent members of society. Her father, Augustus, was a businessman, civic leader, and horticulturalist. Lowell’s mother, Katherine, was an accomplished musician and linguist. Lowell was, although, considered as “almost disreputable

The Application of T.S. Eliot’s Theory on Amy Lowell’s “Patterns” 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

his source of inspiration through any combination of media. Amy Lowell, a twentieth century pioneer of modern poetry, is one such poet. In her poem, “A Lady”, the muse is not only the subject, but the audience, whom she directly addresses. To describe her muse, Lowell uses allusions to the arts, elegant and domestic imagery, and repetitive sounds; in conjunction, she creates a sensual tone to transmit her admiration to the audience. Lowell opens the poem with a bold tone, explicitly addressing the

Amy Lowell was a leader of the Imagists movement. She was influenced by John Keats and gathered a selection of his works. Lowell began to write after her brothers published books of their own, but she focused on poetry. The detail in Lowell’s poetry related to describing and environment or a person could help the reader better understand what is happening in the poem and include the reader as if they were actually there experiencing what the narrator or speaker is experiencing. Her choices develop

Samerawit Winnie Dr. Oxendinex English 1302 27 April 2015 Taxi The Poem Taxi by Amy Lowell is about the pain of leaving her loved one; the poem describes her emotions as she is figuratively and physically is being taken away from her love in the middle of the night. As she rides away, she is fighting leaving her loved one. Against her separation from her loved one. In the evident love affair, the poet is displays the forces her and the lover to part. She is protesting against her separation from

The Taxi via Amy Lowell is a fairly straight forward poem. The poet is describing her feelings as a taxi takes her faraway from her cherished one, at night time. The evidence is her love affair, the poet is showing the prejudice that forces her and the sweetheart to component. it is pretty clean that as she is over excited in the taxi into the harsh world, she is protesting towards her separation from her cherished one. "once I go far from you, the arena beats dead, like a slackened drum."(traces

My favorite poem we have read so far in class is “ A Decade” by Amy Lowell. It is a very short poem, only six lines, but in those six lines is a beautiful story. I relate to the poem that’s why I love it so much. “A Decade” means ten years. This poem is about love. A relationship that has been going on for ten years. In the first line of her poem “ When you came, you were like red wine and honey” she’s describing the beginning of the relationship, sweet like honey and intense/strong like red wine

In “The Lady,” Amy Lowell uses irony, symbolism, similes, and metaphors to convey the subjective nature of beauty. Lowell gives the reader a preconception of the poem’s meaning by entitling her poem, “a lady”- a word society associates with of youth, poise, and elegance. However, the speaker’s idealizes a prostitute as his perception of a “lady,” which is the antithesis of society’s characterization of a “lady.” The speaker’s desire to interact with such a promiscuous woman proves that that beauty

Amy was raised in a family that women were assumed to assume the busy roles of wife, mother, and socialite. The thing was she didn’t like that and always hated the way people thought that women had to perform those roles and also always be the ones who

Amy Lowell’s poem, “Decade” shows how a person can go from infatuation or “puppy love” to pure love and admiration. Lowell demonstrates this through her use of similes and imagery. You start off by reading the title, “Decade”. Lowell uses this title to describe the passage of time that happens throughout the poem. Although this poem is considered short, ten years have passed. Lowell also demonstrates a passage of time by changing the tenses in which she speaks. In the first stanza she uses past