Poet Laureate

No longer is he in the room of a learned poet, but he is now in the body of a child “at a workbench at a camp / by a deep Adirondack lake” (9-10). Again, we have a reference to water, which now gives the scene a serene setting and sets up the next section where he reveals his feelings for the

Infant Mortality in We are Seven by William Wordsworth and On My First Sonne by Ben Johnson The two poems are 'We are Seven' by William Wordsworth and 'On My First Sonne' by Ben Jonson. Prior to 1900 infant mortality featured in most peoples lives but although it was expected it still created personal catastrophe which could be devastating. Although both 'We are Seven' and 'On My First Sonne' are both taking about the subject of infant mortality, they portray it in

It is my great honor and pleasure to introduce the first ever Children's Poet Laureate, Jack Prelutsky! Jack Prelutsky was born to a working-class family. He grew up with a desire for music. He started his career as a folk singer in a coffeehouse. In order to support himself, he worked other odd jobs, such as driving cabs, moving furniture, and more. During his free time, Jack loved to draw imaginary creatures. He wrote several poems to accompany the drawings and submitted them to an editor. The

In "A Barred Owl" and "The History Teacher", by Richard Wilbur and Billy Collins, both authors ponder child innocence and a child's willingness to believe what they are told by people they trust. In "The History Teacher" a teacher tells a series of historical events in which he changes the names and harsh details of the events to protect the children's innocent minds, while in "The Barred Owl", Wilbur describes an innocent child being put back to sleep after being woken by an owl catching it prey

Billy Collins, each poet illustrates adults who are providing explanations for children to protect them from the harsher realities of life. In “A Barred Owl”, Wilbur conveys his point that children should be shielded from these harsh realities, through the use of personification and understatements. However, in “The History Teacher”, Collins conveys his point that protecting the students’ innocence is a lost cause, through his use of metaphors as well as understatements. Both poets use similar and different

In “A Barred Owl” by Richard Wilbur and “The History Teacher” by Billy Collins, adults provide easy explanations for children when confronted with harsh realities. Both works explore the use of white lies to respond to children’s fear and curiosity in an attempt to preserve their innocence. However, the writers employ literary devices that convey these concepts in different ways. While Wilbur presents parents’ well-intentioned untruths as beneficial to a child’s peace of mind, Collins reveals

Research Paper Alfred Lord Tennyson was one of the most prolific poets throughout the whole Victorian era. A.E Housman is one of the most significant poets from the Modern era. Both of these magnificent authors lived distinct lives. Housman wrote “To an Athlete Dying Young” and Tennyson wrote “Break, Break, Break.” Both of these poems deal with the tragedy of death in different perspectives. Housman was born in Worcestershire, England on March 26, 1859.At such a young age of 12 years old he lost

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, a British poet was and is one of the most popular and famous poets from Victorian era Britain. In fact he survived for basically the entirety of the era, as he was born in 1809 and died in 1892, as stated in John Maynard’s Alfred , Lord Tennyson (page 4). Born into a large family in somewhat less than adequate conditions, he found solace mostly in writing, even from a young age. According to online-literature.com he lived with what the world now knows as depression and was

Post-modernism came about in the late-20th century following modernism, which was a period where people had a new found freedom to follow their own path in life, whether it was religion, science, philosophy, art, or really anything they put their mind to as opposed to strictly traditional beliefs. Writers could express their emotions more easily without really feeling a backlash from what everyone else thought. Two female writers who were able to freely express themselves in their writing during

says, “The physical body is a document of being, physical experience is the primary mode of forming, and physical contact is the primary human relationship.” Like Whitman, Olds celebrates the body in its pleasures and pains. She is a contemporary poet who focuses on autobiographical poems mostly of sexual or violent nature and personal experience. She particularly resonates with women readers and women’s connections with family members and lovers of the past and present through physical, sexual