After the age of twelve, Frost began to take a liking to school and learning (Thompson). After graduating from high school as valedictorian and class poet, he attended Dartmouth College, but shortly dropped out due to not having enough scholarship money (Thompson). Frost became a teacher at Harvard College where he mentored students in literature (Thompson). After two best selling books, A Boy’s Will and North of Boston, he became a farmer in New Hampshire because he did not like the fame (Thompson). Robert Frost died at the age of
What Killed Edgar Allen Poe? Edgar Allen Poe was an American mystery writer, he lived a very short and depressing life. He was born on January 19, 1809 but his unfair life began after that. When Edgar was three years old, his dad left him and his mom died of tuberculosis. Shortly, he was separated from his siblings William and Rosalie because he had been adopted by John and Frances Allan.
Frost drifted through a string of occupations after leaving school, working as a teacher, cobbler, and editor of the Lawrence Sentinel. In 1895, Frost married Elinor Miriam White, whom he’d shared valedictorian honors with in high school and who was a major inspiration for his poetry until her death in 1938. The couple moved to England in 1912, after they tried and failed at farming in New Hampshire. Moreover, who is generally regarded as one of the twentieth-century prominent American poets; he is a symbolist poet on the grounds that he uses natural imagery allusive of particular daily situations and experiences; he uses certain images so that, in addition to their meanings, they allude to abstract thoughts which appear to be more important and resonant. It was abroad that Frost met and
Unable to make a living as a farmer and part-time teacher, unable to get more than a few poems accepted for publication, Frost, and his wife took their growing family to England. When he returned to the United States, he was almost forty-years-old. Then he became widely known as a poet and a lecturer. As a poet, performer, and public figure, Frost played the role of the New England sage. According to the book Discovering Literature, Robert Frost became a living legend.
Despite never graduating high school and living through the Great Depression and the suffering that came as a result, William Faulkner established his own literary fantasy and a new approach to the style of writing while addressing social issues as portrayed throughout The Sound and the Fury. William Faulkner faced a multitude of challenges and hardships throughout his life that influenced his literary works. Faulkner was involved in a complicated love affair with an engaged Estelle Oldham. Following Estelle’s divorce from Cornell Franklin, Faulkner promptly relinquished his feelings for Estelle and the two were later married. In January of 1931, Estelle gave birth to a baby girl.
Love in the Time of Cholera, is about Florentino Ariza (he work as a tele gram messenger, and fifty years later he work as president of the River Company) had fallen his first love with Fermina Daza (she came from a rich family, and marry a professional doctor). Florentino has been writing love letter to Fermina daily in secret, but her father found out that she love Florentino. So Fermina and her father moved away to another village. About fifty years later, Florentino visit Fermina’s husband funeral and confessed that he still love her, Fermina refused because she still love her husband. Fermina wished to forget what happen the day when Florentino propose to her, but she look through the letters he had send him and decided to love him again.
Frost attended first attended Dartmouth University but then later dropped out. Several years on in 1897, Frost attended Harvard University, but soon dropped out due to health complications that he was experiencing. When frost and his wife, Elinor move to a property in New Hampshire. New Hampshire brought Frost as well as his family hardship yet prospered in his writing. Frost’s descriptions regarding rural New Hampshire was often portrayed in a lot of his poetry, in particular, ‘Mending Wall’.
He discusses the revolutionary change of seasons and how life is beautiful, but death is inevitable. His abstract style of writing and usage of the words “anyone” and “no one” conveys the major motifs of love, death, and loss of identity. Edward Estlin Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October of 1894. He began writing poems as early as 1904, but did not begin studying them until he attended High School in Cambridge. He furthered
Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts as the daughter of German immigrant parents. Sylvia Plath was a gifted and troubled poet, known for the confessional style of her work. Her interest in writing emerged at an early age, and she started out by keeping a journal. Her father was a professor of biology at Boston University,and had specialized in bees.He has been charachterized as authoritarian and died of diabetes in 1940 when Plath was eight years old.Her mother,Aurelia worked at two jobs to support Sylvia and her brother Warren,but in her diary Plath reveals her hatred for her mother. At school Plath appeared to be a model student:she won prizes and scholarships.She studied at Gamaliel Bradford Senior High School and at Smith College from 1950 t O 1955.Summing up Sylvia Plath ,A.Alvarez says: "She was a tall,spindly girl with waist _length sandy hair,which she usually wore in bun,and that curious,advertisement_trained transatlantic air of anxious pleasantness.But this was a nervous social manner,under it ,she was ruthless about her perception, wary and very individual."
“While my mother hemorrhaged to death during childbirth,...” (Hosseini 6) Amir’s mother died before he knew her but he acquired her love of poetry and literature. He wrote short stories almost all the time his entire childhood and when he grew up, he wrote stories that got published that helped him financially. His father never approved of it but came to accept it when they both moved to America to start over. “I looked up at those twin kites. I thought about Hassan.