Amy Lowell

In “September, 1918”, Amy Lowell shows her readers an interesting and illuminating poem. That war can be an ugly time and the people that experience it often seems to live in a “broken world” (19). To fight an evil, sometimes war is needed, nonetheless it is still costly to the people living through the war. Some in a literal sense, like soldiers fighting in a war, while some in a physical sense by the world that they now see and live in. I find the poem truly interesting though, in how the author

Amy Lowell defines the hopeful liberty of women in the 20th century through a central theme in the poem "Patterns". The woman's dreams of eluding from the boundaries that society has placed on her fritters away when she learns of her lover’s untimely death. She restricts herself from feeling to make it seem as if there is “not softness anywhere” about her. Due to being constricted by “whalebone and brocade,” the speaker feels like she is forced to live up to the rules that society enforces upon her

Poetry has radically evolved within the last century and a half. Due to writers such as Amy Lowell, poetry has changed from the structured and controlled writings of Emily Brontë’s R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida to Lowell’s free verse, imagery inducing works. The keyword to the shift in writing is the term ‘image’ which demands a variety of senses and uses an emotional complex to convey the mood of the poem to the reader. By analyzing Lowell’s works such as Opal and Decade, it can be concluded that strategic

Don’t Worry About a Thing Like the Reggae artist Bob Marley sang, “Don’t worry about a thing because every little thing is gonna be alright.” In Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” Frost tells the story of a man and his horse who stop in the woods on snowy night to simply admire the beauty of nature as well as presenting the harshness of life. The poem is highly influenced by Frost’s life, and he uses conventional symbols, personification, and tone to show that even when

can be regarded highly in society, representing images of fertility, security, and beauty, many people still view them in stereotypical ways; some people believe that all women should act a certain way, never letting their true selves shine through. Amy Lowell’s "Patterns" and Helen

Within “Dreams” by Amy Lowell, the speaker reveals their feelings to a close friend, describing how the friend’s words provoke more emotion than needed. The speaker then describes how it would rather be better for them to sit in silence as they already understand how their friend feels. Amy Lowell’s “Dreams” utilizes figurative language such as hyperboles, personification, and metaphors in order to depict an intimate friendship that values silent company as opposed to interpersonal communication

illustrates 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 the subject, her muse, Lowell uses allusions to the arts, elegant and domestic imagery, and repetitive sounds; in conjunction, she creates

S. Eliot and Amy Lowell share many biographical similarities, despite their very different literary pedigrees. Both had ties to Boston and to Harvard; both were highly influenced by the Imagist poet Ezra Pound. Pound was an editor of Eliot's "Waste Land" and Eliot dedicated his seminal modernist poem to Pound. However, in contrast to the amicable relationship of Eliot and Pound, Lowell was Pound's literary adversary. Pound accused her of diluting the term 'Imagist' which caused Lowell to avoid associating

Amy Lowell is an American imagist poet who uses descriptive language to create specific images in a readers mind. Set in the Victorian era (1800’s,) the dramatic monologue ‘Patterns’ explores the restrictions of unmarried women in society and the desire for freedom. My view of these issues is that of a feminist reader living in a democratic modern day society, where men and women live in a state of equality and have the right to express their opinions. A feminist reading focuses on the specific treatment

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