Expression Through Experience: the Impact of Writers Lives Through Poetry

A. J. Vega Professor Alba English 1317 Introduction to literature February 13, 2013 Expression Through Experience The Impact of Writers Lives Through rhyme Poe sieve comes in confused styles, writings, languages, and elements, but it is not just the literature that is dissimilar the poets have their hold unique elan to write and recognize themselves d angiotensin-converting enzyme poems. From the 1600s to the drink, poetry and literature as a whole has transformd greatly ground on the experiences and events that have taken come on in the lives of writers.Like more some other concourse in this gentleman, they have witnessed death, tragedy, heartbreak, and loss of hope, which inspired their writings and ever-changing the world of literature. Because of this, galore(postnominal) people provide relate to these poems because of similar experiences and can reflect on their perspectives and compare their ideals to the poets that express their thoughts in their work. Peopl e give care Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, and Matthew Arnold, all unique poets, have made connections to their lives and invested their term into writing poems to express their ideas and feelings to relate to people everywhere.Robert Frost was an American poet during the Naturalism period. This period lasted from the barricade of the nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. During this period there was barbarity of human live and of nature as well (Alba). According to pull the leg of Rahn, The dominant theme of Naturalist literature is that persons are fated to some(prenominal) station in life their heredity, environment, and social conditions prepare them for. This implies that peoples lives would be dependent on their testify experiences like where and how they lived, who they were and their status in society.Rahn would likewise relate the Naturalist period to be the logical result of literary Realism (Rahn). The Naturalist writers of this time did not inc lude organized religion in their literature, and does not expect the world to change, whether their perspectives nearly it are well behaved or bad. At the same time of the Naturalist period, the Progressive era took shopping mall. This is a time where America was magicianting to be acknowledged as a powerfulnessful nation in the world, but internally, the nation was suffering. This was the time leading intoWorld War I and right before the Roaring mid-twenties and then the Great Depression, which were all unexpected and rapid events occurring right aft(prenominal) another. Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874 and moved to the New Eng contribute vault of heaven at the age of eleven. Frost married Elinor Miriam White, who was his main inspiration for many of his poetry before her death in 1938 (Academy of American Poets). He was also inspired by British poets during that time like Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, and Robert Graves (Academy of American Poets).Much of Fro sts work that he wrote described the area and landscape of New England, one of which is Stopping by Woods on a blank Evening. The title, Stopping by Woods on a blank Evening already gives a general idea of what the poem is describing in which the narrator is in the forest while it is snowing. What makes this poem so raise is its many interpretations, its different perspectives and its eerie setting that is portrayed. As Frost describes the cold, snow-filled even out with intricate imagery (describing the New England winter nights), a doubt of wherefore the narrator stops in the woods arises.He admired the dark, snow-c everywhereed, woods a lot which would imply that he enjoyed living in the conjugation New England area and that he often looked well-nigh and took notice of his surroundings. Also, many would like to interpret the last ii lines of the poem, And miles to go before I sleep, in various ways. It is emphasized by its repeated two lines in the last stanza and ba sed on his personal life it could be metaphorical to after losing his wife that he must continue to live. It is hard to tell why Robert Frost wrote this poem, because of the vagueness of the poem.Maybe it was about Frost visiting an old sponsor or acquaintance or even a close relative. The mysteriousness about the poem puts the reader in a sort of disequilibrium, to fathom why would someone stop in the woods on a snowy evening. William Shakespeare was a famous British writer and poet during the English Renaissance. This period took place from 1500 to 1660, right after the medieval period, cognise as the Dark Ages, where a rebirth transformation occurred (Alba). People had a thirst for learning, reading literature, and rt many of the things were man centered, rather than being focused on God, taking a shift from religion to the ideas on humanity (Alba). Also, advances in medicine and the find of the human circulatory system came about (Alba). single of the well-nigh of import things that came about during the English Renaissance was the invention of the printing press in 1440 by Johannes Gutenberg (Rahn). Through the printing press, literature was made very kindly to people, and encouraged reading and learning and an increase of different ideas to spread.As Rahn describes that it maximized printing might in a way that changed the world of arts, letters, and ideas forever. It was timely and expensive to alteration copies of different literature, which made it hard for people to get a employ of and read, but now that it was accessible, everyone felt encouraged to tipt reading, especially the intrigue full treatment of Shakespeare. William Shakespeare was known for both his poems and his other literature and also known as a word smith, where he would make up wrangling derived from different languages, to further describe something that was happening in any of his works (Alba).Shakespeare composed his sonnets between 1553 and 1601, and published in 1609, which consisted of 154 different sonnets written in Shakespearean (Academy of American Poets). The Shakespearean writing technique is written with triplet quatrains and a couplet, making it a fourteen line poem, called a sonnet (Alba). All the sonnets fell into two groups sonnets 1 to 126 were written for a devout friend, a handsome and noble young man, and 127 to 152 were addressed to a cancerous but fascinating Dark Lady, whom the poet bashs in spite of himself (Academy of American Poets).This is raise and and mysterious, as Josh Rahn explains that, very few details of the playwrights life are known today. What is known about Shakespeare is that he married Ann Hathaway at the age of eighteen and had two daughters (Academy of American Poets). One of the sonnets Shakespeare wrote, praise 116 talks about what true love is in the look of Shakespeare. Since this is the one-hundredth and sixteenth sonnet, this poem was addressed to one of his belove relatives.Maybe Shak espeare was a mentor to his relative and was move to describe what love is to him or her and trying to encourage the relative to not give up on the power of love because it could be mistaken for something else. In the first stanza, Shakespeare first lets the reader know what love is not before he continues to what love is. He describes love to not be a marriage of two people, and change or fall when things happen. He continues on his second stanza where Shakespeare describes that, It is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempest and is neer shaken (Shakespeare).The ever-fixed mark that Shakespeare describes is the North Star, the only star in the sky that never moves when traveling it was a great way for navigation, especially for naval exploration (Alba). During this time, naval exploration began, in which the Americas were discover and Britain had the greatest navy at the time (Alba). Compared to the North Star, love is never changed and will always be there and will be the star to ever wandering bark (Shakespeare). He also capitalizes the word time in this case, also personifying it to provide emphasis and power to the word. Loves not Times fool simply relates to the fact that love is forever and that is not controlled by time and does not diminish over time. His last two lines of his sonnet portray his confidence in his own intellectual thoughts and ideas on love. If he was not right, then he never did write, which is not true at all. The Victorian Era (named after pouf Victoria in England) lasted from 1832 to 1901, ending immediately the death of the Queen (Alba). During that time, some every institution of society was shaken by rapid and unorthodox change (Rahn).All of Europes nations economies increased and accelerated, the steam engine engineering science grew, leading to an increase in factory production, and a large income of wealth started the rise of the middle class, according to Josh Rahn on his writings of the Victorian Era. Apart from the positive progress scientifically and economically, there were negatives that affected the demographic of Europe at that time. People were looking towards science and leaving their assurance and religion (Alba).The theories of evolution and natural selection, according to Rahn, brought humanity down to the aim of an animal, and seemingly reduced the meaning of life to a bloody difference for survival. They had no need for a God in their lives and relied on their vividness and wisdom alone. This led to both an increase in optimism and hope for the future, yet also for others, the downfall of human society and the loss of hope in the world. Matthew Arnold, who lived during the Victorian Era was the son of a clergyman and had religion in his whole life (Alba).He studied at Oxford University and eventually became a professor of poetry at Oxford through his reputation as a poet (Academy of American Poets). One of the things that Arnold struggled with in his writing was that his po etry reflected his problems with psychological isolation (Academy of American Poets). Although he was the son of a minister, he often had trouble with his own faith and sought to establish the essential truth of Christianity (Academy of American Poets).One of the most well known things that Matthew Arnold was known for was his critical essays which established criticism as an art form, and has influenced almost every major English critic, making him undoubtably boost with his writings (Academy of American Poets). During this era, he felt encouraged to write, capital of Delaware Beach. Dover Beach, located in England, is a vacation spot and a place for romantics with white cliffs that are made of salt with smooth, round rocks and pebbles that replace unremitting sand that would normally be on the beach (Alba).There are two perspectives as to why Matthew Arnold wrote this poem that he was talking to a loved one to try to find something to hold on to while the world is dark and seem ingly falling apart, or that he is trying to nock a woman. Since he struggled with various problems in his personal life and the changes that had been occurring in Europe, he must have been trying to find something positive in his life to escape from the real world and focus on the present time. Arnold proclaims in his last stanza of his poem, let us be true to one anotherFor the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light to try to keep an optimistic point of view in the darkness of everything around him (Arnold). The way that Arnold uses metaphors to compare the sea to the faith that used to be toilsome and shake the rocks back and forth now dies in the encompassment of the earthly things that change the hopes and dreams and people with its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar (Arnold).Matthew Arnold was not trying to use crafty lyric poem to seduce a woman into bed with him, he was beg ging for a light of hope to beacon from this Dover Beach that seems to have deep in thought(p) its own light through the struggles, doubts and despair of others. Through these different poets and writers, people can get a clearer understanding of what it meant to live in various time periods, and the struggles and achievements that they went through and relate it to their poems and writings.Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, and Matthew Arnold affected the literary world through their writings and influenced others to express their lives through the art of poetry and other literature. 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