Robert Louis Stevenson Research Paper

Poetry Research Project: Robert Louis Stevenson

Do you ever take the time to ever think about the life of a poet? How do they create such imagination using only words? Robert Louis Stevenson was one of these people. Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Scotland in 1850. He grew up with severe breathing problems. When he first went to college, he was studying for law. He wrote very renowned story books like The Strange case of doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and he also wrote Treasure Island. He was very famous for both books and poems. He would mostly use rhyming in his poems. For example, here is one of Robert Louis Stevenson’s quotes in his poem “My shadow,” “I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, / And what can be the use of him is more than I can see” This report will help you with understanding the poet more through his poems. The poem that will be focused on is “My Shadow.” This poem uses Imagery, rhyming, and symbolism to tell about the life of a shadow.

He is very descriptive in his poems, but particularly this one (poem hunter). The best quote Robert Louis Stevenson uses to describe the image of his poem is, “one morning very early before the sun was up,/ I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup” (Browse). He describes the background of the poem very well in that quote he uses. Another quote Robert Louis Stevenson uses in his poem to describe the shadow is “For he sometimes shoots up taller like and india-rubber ball,/ and he sometimes gets so little that there’s none of him at all” (join). He describes the shadows growth in that