William trevor

Sort By:
Page 8 of 50 - About 500 essays
  • Decent Essays

    out of context), sounded smooth rolling off the tongue of the speaker. The poem was a great selection for the reading because it showed the deep bond that the two share. Beth read several stories that were extremely short. Even shorter than William Carlos Williams’ Red Wheelbarrow. The stories were less than four lines, some as short as one or two lines. Although short, the stories were able to convey a lot of emotion. My favorite short poem was called Married Love. It went something along the lines

    • 731 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    "I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine" (Twentieth-Cenutry 231). The time of the imagists was a time of change. Sometimes that change was and other times it wasn't so good. They fought for freedom, refering to African Americans and the fight for civil rights. They changed the rules on how to write. They even made such a lasting impression that the way of writing continued past the time period and changed into

    • 2357 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Good Essays

    America, including poets Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. The aforementioned poets reflected on a fast changing America through exploitation. As an American, Poet William Carlos Williams believed that the twentieth century culture in America was at a decline. With modern inventions and the growth of a capitalist America, suburbanites and rural Americans were suffering from the urbanization and industrialization of America. William Carlos Williams lived in the suburbs and worked as a family

    • 833 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The American Imperialism Essay

    • 558 Words
    • 3 Pages
    • 3 Works Cited

    turn that led them to solidify as the world power. From the late 1800s, as the US began to collect power through Cuba, Hawaii, and the Philippines, debate arose among historians about American imperialism and its behavior. Historians such as William A. Williams, Arthur Schlesinger, and Stephen Kinzer provides their own vision and how America ought to be through ideas centered around economics, power, and racial superiority. Economics becomes a large factor in the American imperialism; but more specifically

    • 558 Words
    • 3 Pages
    • 3 Works Cited
    Decent Essays
  • Good Essays

    of William Carlos Williams “Nothing whips my blood like verse.” These are the famous words of the great poet, William Carlos Williams. Williams was born on September 17, 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey. He spent most of his life in Rutherford, so today he is a local hero. Williams’ mother was Puerto Rican and almost had pure Spanish blood. His father was American. As a child, Williams’ dad was a salesman and was often away from home. Thus, they didn’t see each other very much. When Williams was

    • 1153 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Decent Essays

    was trying to pry mathilda’s mouth open. May a doctor have more power on whether to lie to his patient’s or to tell them the truth. A physician should respect the patient’s wishes on whether to live or whether to die. “The Use of Force’’ by William Carlos Williams brings up the question if it is ever justifiable for a medical professional to use force. First of all in a topic in the “MSNBC Equality/Health” talks about a law forcing doctors to lie to patients about abortion. It states”while the american

    • 913 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Better Essays

    William Carlos Williams “Philomena Andronica” and Gertrude Stein’s “Identity, a poem” are both visually and tonally very different texts. However, Stein and Williams have both used similar approaches to literary form in their poems as can be seen in their non-traditional approach to meaning generation and rejection of grammatical convention. The poems also both show an interest in the notion of identity and it’s fluidity, although Stein employs repeated images in her investigation whilst Williams

    • 1431 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Walt Whitman Influence

    • 845 Words
    • 4 Pages

    There is no question that Walt Whitman had the most significant influence on American literary history. Along with Emily Dickinson, Whitman represented the Romantic literature era of American literature. Whitman is known for his distinctive poetic forms and free verse. Whitman’s most popular work Leaves of Grass influenced many future writers that came after him to follow his writing style. The richness that Leaves of Grass left behind had such a huge impact on American writers of many different

    • 845 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    later became the benchmark for other literary revolutions such as those of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets and the Black Mountain poets. Objectivist poetry as a movement had its informal roots in the early years of the 1930’s and both Zukofsky and William Carlos Williams

    • 703 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Throughout the poetry analysis unit, I learned lots of things about the poems. I learned how to look at, analyze, and write a poem. My whole perception of poems changed, and I am really happy about it. Before this unit, I used to attach importance to only the meaning of the poems; however, right now, I can attach importance to more than one device in a poem, and use them in my own poems. We started this journey with writing only one stanza with three or four lines. I really liked these poems because

    • 846 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays