Authors Flashcards
Themes: mans isolation from universe or alienation from environment, human limitation, death, affirmation, love, rationality vs imagination, dramatic struggles within nature( talks a lot about landscape of New England)
Robert frost
Style: diction: uses words to would use in everyday conversation, were about nature, writes sentences with meter and rhythm, uses many poetic devices in poetry, wrote about everyday events with metaphorical extensions, straightforward verse style, the sound of sense: the poetic belief system in which the sound of poetry is as important to the overall work as the actual words
Robert frost
4 out of 6 kids died
Death of wife left a large impact on him
Last years of life led him to depression
Robert frost
Most famous works: Stepping by wood on a snowy evening The road not taken Fire and ice Nothing golden can stay Mending wall
Robert frost
Collections: New Hampshire: 1924 p prize
Collected poems 1931 p prize
Further range 1937 p prize
A witness tree 1943 p prize
Robert frost
Lit period: modernism Wrote poetry Nationality: American Born in San Francisco died in Boston Married his co-valedictorian elinor white Had 6 kids
Robert frost
Spent first 11 yrs of life in San Francisco
Moved to Lawrence Massachusetts with sister and mom after dad’s death
Attended Lawrence high where met future wife
Became interested in reading and writing poetry
Graduated high school in 1892 and then attended Dartmouth university
Robert frost
Went Harvard but never got a formal degree
Was a teacher, cobbler, and editor of St. Lawrence sentinel
Robert frost
Nov. 8 1894 1st published poem “my butterfly and elegy” appeared in the Independent
1912: moved to England
Robert frost
Was influenced by poets such as ed Thomas, rupert brook, and Graves
Ezra pound promoted his works
1915: retuned to America with 2 published collections: “a boys will” and “ a Boston nation”
Robert frost
1916: bought farm
Taught for 45yrs at Dartmouth, university of Michigan, and Amherst
Spent summers at middlebury teaching English
Won a Pulitzer Prize in 1924,1931,1937,1943
Robert frost
1938: wife died
1961: asked to write and recite poem at inauguration of JFK at 86 yrs old
1963: jan 9, died of complications of prostate surgery
Robert frost
Themes:odd mixtures if irony and compassion towards subjects
Independent relationships and hardships
often involved romance
Drama
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Style: early works: villanelle and rondeau
Later works: blank verse
Sonnet
Dramatic monologue
Edwin Arlington Robinson
His parents wanted a girl so they didn’t name until after 6 months he had been born cause they were mad
His mothers friend named him because she was mad he didn’t have a name
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Menin: 1917 Lancelot: 1920 Tristam: 1927 Collected poems: 1922 The man who died twice: 1924
Edwin Arlington Robinson
“Man against the sky” 1916: first major success
Composed a trilogy based on Arthurian legends that won a Pulitzer Prize
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Born in head tide Maine
Died NYC 1935
Family moved to Gardner Maine which is setting to majority of poems
Childhood was described as stark and unhappy: hates name and is why he goes by EA and he felt older than people his age
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Had 2 brothers: one was alcoholic other was drug addict
Attended Harvard for two yrs
One poem was published in Harvard literary journal
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Last 25 yrs if life, spent summers at McDowell colony of artists and musicians in Peterborough, New Hampshire
Never married, lived a solitary lifestyle
Edwin Arlington Robinson
At Harvard, father died, stayed to help farms but later left because his love rejected him
His love rejected him twice and then she married his brother
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Moved to NY and published first book “the torrent of the night” but was rewritten as “children of the night” (1897)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Not gaining immediate attention, worked as an inspector for the NY subway system
While working he wrote Captain Craig and other poems (1902)
President Roosevelt read this and gave him a sinecure in a US customs house
Dedicated his next poem “the town down in the river” to Roosevelt
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Greek dramatist
Born 406 bc in colonus
Father owned a business that made armor and were wealthy
Active citizen who had many talents
16yrs. Old: chosen to lead the paean: a chant to god celebrating the Greeks beating the Persians at the Battle of Salamis
Died: 406 bc
Sophocles
Actor, poet, author, and producer
Won his first dramatic competition in 468 bc
Wrote 120 dramas but only 7 survived
Won about 20 first places in Athenian drama competitions
Sophocles
7 writings left but 3 were most famous Oedipus the king Oedipus at colonus Antigone Ajax The women of trachis Electra Philocetes
Sophocles
Style: trilogies No punctuation Iambic pentameter Rhyming couplets Dramatic irony
Sophocles
Themes: morality Religion A persons decision and the fate of the things Wisdom Arrogance Pride and wrongdoing Moderation
Sophocles
