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Famous African Poets

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01. Breyten Breytenbach

Breyten Breytenbach was born in September 16, 1939. He is an South-African writer. Besides

writing he is good at painting. He won Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. His famous works are- A veil

of footsteps, All one horse (1990), Dog Heart: A Memoir, Mouroir(1984) etc.


02. Chinua Achebe

He was born in November 16, 1930, Ogidi, Anambra, Nigeria. His first work Things Fall Apart

becomes successful. He was not only a poet but also a novelist. For his outstanding literary

work he won Man Booker International Prize. His famous work are- Things Fall Apart ,No

Longer at Ease, A Man of the People, Arrow of God ,Anthills of the Savannah.


03. Christopher Okigbo

Christopher Okigbo was born in Okigbo was born on 16 August 1930. He is an postcolonial

poet. He is the founder member of African Authors Association. He died in the independence

of Biafra.Path of Thunder, Dance of the Painted Maidens, Lament of the Masks these are the

famous works of Christopher Okigbo.


04. Dambudzo Marechera

The poet who was born in Zimbabwe and became famous for his literary works is Dambudzo

Marechera. He was born in June 4, 1952, Rusape, Zimbabwe. He won Guardian Fiction Prize.

Black sunlight ,The House of Hunger ,The black insider and Cemetery of mind are his famous

literary works.


05. David Wright

David Wright was born in February 23, 1920, Johannesburg, South Africa. He was the student

of Oriel College, Oxford. His notable poems are- An Agnostic Gets A Shave In Pakistan, The

Teacher's Reward, Making the Most of What We Have, Spring and I are Restless, A Santa Fe

Storm.


06. Dennis Brutus

Dennis Brutus was a south African poet who was born in November 28, 1924, Harare,

Zimbabwe. He was also known as a journalist. His famous works are: Simple Lust, Stubborn

hope, Still the Sirens/Poems, Salutes & censures, Remembering, Leaf Drift.


07. Ingrid Jonker


Many of her poetry is translated into other languages. This great woman was born in

September 19, 1933, Northern Cape, South Africa. She is also considered south African Sylvia

Plath. Her famous poems are- The child is not dead, Ontvlugting ,Ek herhaal jou, The Face of

Love, My omhelsing het my verdubbel, Ek herhaal jou (I repeat you), This journey, Begin

Summer, L’Art poetique and 25 December.


08. Keorapetse Kgositsile

Keorapetse Kgositsile was an South African poet who is known as "Bra Willie". He was born in

September 19, 1938, Johannesburg, South Africa. When the clouds clear, o the Bitter End,

This Way I Salute You these are his famous literary writings.


09. Kofi Awoonor

Whose writings depicted the culture of Ewe people and their religion is Kofi Awoonor. He was

born in March 13, 1935, Gold Coast; so he is an Ghanaian poet. His remarkable writings are

The African predicament, Comes the voyager at last and The Promise of Hope.


10. Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka is an Nigerian poet who was born in July 13, 1934 (age 80), Abeokuta, Nigeria.

He is the first poet who won Nobel Prize for Africa in Literature. Ake, The Interpreters, King

Baabu, The Beatification of the Area Boy are his famous writings.


11. Leopold Sedar Senghor

Leopold Sedar Senghor was born in October 9, 1906, Joal-Fadiouth, Senegal. He is not only a

poet but he is the first president of Senegal. His famous books are The collected poetry,

Oeuvre poetique, Poems of a black Orpheus and Selected Poems of Leopold Sedar Senghor.


12. Kwame Dawes

Kwame Dawes is an Ghanaian poet who is actually not only a poet but also an actor, musician

and editor. He was born in July 28, 1962. He got Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US

& Canada. His famous works are: Bob Marley: Lyrical Genius, Shook foil, Natural mysticism

and Impossible Flying: Poems.


13.Phillis Wheatley

Wheatley was seized from Senegal, when she was about seven years old. This African poet

was born in May 8, 1753. She started her early life in slavery and throughout her life she had

to struggle against poverty. She believes in the power of literature especially in the power of

poetry. Her notable works are-On Imagination, An Hymn To The Morning, One Being Brought

From Africa To America, On Being Brought from Africa to America, A Farewell To America to


Mrs. S. W., On The Death Of A Young Lady Of Five Years, An Hymn to Humanity, An Hymn

To The Evening, Ode To Neptune, On Recollection, On, Virtue, A Rebus and so on.


14.Nikki Giovanni

Nikki Giovanni was an African-American poet and born in June 7, 1943, Knoxville, Tennessee,

United States. Not only she writes poems but also was known as a commentator. Her notable

works are- Bicycles: Love Poems, Cotton candy on a rainy day, Quilting the black‐eyed pea,

Ego-tripping and other poems for young people etc.


15. Guy Butler

Guy Butler was born in January 21, 1918. He is a South African poet and critic. He completed

his education from Oxford University. His notable books are Demea, Karoo morning and

Pilgrimage to Dias Cross.

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Top 15 Ballad Poems

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ballad

01. The Lady of Shalott

This ballad was first published in 1842 which represents a difference between art and life. Lady of Shalott here is seen to lock in a room and is not allowed to look outside the window. But Lancelot one of the members of Arthur's round table attracts him and this temptation caused her cursed and leads her to death.

 

02. Barbara Allan

It is a traditional ballad which is first referred by Pepys in 1666. In this poem or ballad poem Sir John's love for Allan is described. Sir John accuses that the reason of his sickness is his love for her. But on the contrary Barbara Allan always refuses to love him.

 

03. The Host of the Air

This is an old ballad of English version. The bread and wine symbolizes Jesus where The Host of the Air indicates bread and wine. In this ballad a man is seen to dream about his newly married wife who has been stolen by a young man when he is card games and eating bread as well as drinking wine.

 

04. The Ballad of East and West

This ballad poem is about an Afghan warrior and an English colonel whose horse is seized by Kamal, the Afghan warrior. The phrase- "East is East and West is West'' tells that these two parts of the word are not subject to meet until the day of judgement comes. But the main characters Kamal and the colonel's son proves that each territory can mix up if they keep aside their racism, religion and approach with their nobility and bravery.

 

05. The Ballad of Reading Gaol

This poem is first published in 1987. Just after become free from prison Oscar Wilde composed this ballad where he describes about prisoned life and his struggle in the prison. The harsh realities of prisoned life as well as the life of execution is revealed in this poem.

 

06. The Ballad of Moll Magee

This is one of the famous ballads of W.B. Yeats where the protagonist tells her story to the children that once she killed her little child just after returning from outside. She tells her poverty is one reason for the death of her child and that why her husband leaves her but she has no feeling for her husband rather than she always thinks about her dead child.

 

07. The Elfin Knight

There are a lot of supernatural elements in The Elfin Knight which is recognised as traditional ballad. It is also reachable to the children. It is the story of a maiden who summons the Elfin Knight into her bedroom but when the Knight tells he has wife and children in his house she rejects him and the Knight disappears.

 

08.The Ballad of the White Horse

This poem was first published in 1911. Here in this ballad poem the speaker describes how the Danes are defeated in the battle of Ethandum by Alfred. It is the struggle between Christianity  and pagan religion.

 

09. The Cruel Mother

This ballad refers to the story of a mother who randomizely kills her children. After giving birth a  child every time she kills it and buries in in the forest. But interestingly this woman feels some love for other children playing in the street but she is mocked by those children for her heinous deed.

 

10. The Three Ravens

It is a folk ballad and was first published in 1611. The ballad tells the story about three birds who is seen to discuss where and what they should at that moment. One suggests that they should eat the body of recently dead knight. Finally they were unsuccessful to see the knight to be buried.

 

11. The Demon Lover

This ballad poem tells about the story of two lovers; love between Mrs. Drover and a soldier. To keep his promise the soldier again returns to Mrs. Drover during the world war ii. After reading the letter when Mrs. Drover rushes to the country house she discovers that the taxi driver is the soldier himself.

 

12. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The ancient mariner tells his life story to a wedding guest. On the time of his youth how he killed an Albatross and brought bad luck to the crew. It seems a sin to the crew to kill the albatross thats why they cursed the ancient mariner. Finally after a lot of sufferings the ancient mariner realizes that showing respect to all the creatures means showing respect to God.

13. Lord Randal

Lord Randal tells the story of a unlucky lover who is killed or poisoned by his beloved. After returning from her beloved, his mother asks her where he was. The Lord tells he was in the forest for hunting and had the dinner with his beloved. Lord Randal gradually becomes sick as he was poisoned by his sweetheart during the dinner.

 

14. The Twa Sisters

In this ballad the younger sister is killed by her own elder sister because she was jealous of her younger sister's fair skin and handsome suit. The corpse of the younger sister is found by a musician whose musical instrument helps him to find out the murderer.

 

15. The Wife of Usher’s Well

It is the story of a mother who sends her sons in the sea but very soon she hears that all of them died. After mourning some time using her magical power she gets back her sons for a night. In the morning the sons again goes away where they have come from.

 

Works Cited:

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/thematic_poems/ballad_poems_4.html

http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/the-lady-of-shalott-by-tennyson-summary-poem-analysis-interpretation.html

http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/47550/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Reading_Gaol

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch084.htm

http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/3942/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Ravens

https://betterknowachildballad.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/child-10-twa-sisters/

http://www.exampleessays.com/viewpaper/59505.html

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15 Notable American Poets

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01. Edgar Allan Poe
Scholars who worked for the American literary movement, Edgar Allan Poe was one of them. Edgar Allan Poe was born in January 19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The name of his parents is Eliza Poe, David Poe, Jr. Most of his poems are written in his early age. Later on he started to write articles, short stories, essays and different types of literary criticism. His famous literary works are- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, Annabel Lee, A Dream Within A Dream, Alone, The Raven, Eldorado, A Dream,Evening Star and Dreamland.

02. Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdale was an American poet. She was born in August 8, 1884. The poem, I Shall Not Care is considered as her suicide note. Her famous literary works are- The Essential Sara Teasdale Poetry Collection, Life Has Loveliness to Sell, Love Songs, Rivers to the Sea etc.

03. Julia Alvarez
Julia Alvarez was born in March 27, 1950 (age 64), New York City, New York, United States. Besides an American poet she was also considered as an Dominican poet and she believed in Roman Catholicism. She wrote poems, essays, stories, children's book as well as some remarkable novels. Her famous literary works are- Return to Sender (2009), Saving the World (2006), In the Name of Salomé (2000), ¡YO! (1997), In The Time of the Butterflies (1994), How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, The Woman I Kept to Myself (2004), Homecoming: New and Collected Poems (1996), The Other Side / El Otro Lado (1995) A Wedding in Haiti: The Story of a Friendship (April 2012), Once Upon A Quinceañera: Coming of Age in the USA (2007), Something to Declare (1998) etc.

04. T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot is considered one of the greatest poets of America. He was born in September 26, 1888, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. He was awarded for a lot of prizes like Tony Award, Dante Medal, Order of Merit and most importantly the Nobel Prize. His famous works are-  The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Four Quartets, The Waste Land, Murder in the Cathedral, The Cocktail Party, The Rock and The Family Reunion.

05. Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein was born in  February 3, 1874, Allegheny, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Her parents name is Amelia Stein and Daniel Stein. She spent the later part of her life in France. Daughter, Red Faces, A Long Dress, Stanzas in Meditation, Cézanne, America, A Frightful Release, From Four Saints in Three Acts, Study Nature, Susie Asado, New, A Mounted Umbrella; these are the famous poems of Gertrude Stein.

06. Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Giovanni was an African-American poet and born in June 7, 1943, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Not only she writes poems but also was known as a commentator. Her notable works are- Bicycles: Love Poems, Cotton candy on a rainy day, Quilting the black eyed pea, Ego-tripping and other poems for young people etc.

07. Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich, an American poet born in 1951, is best known for her scrutiny of the experiences of women in society. She has expressed that her aim is to write directly and overtly as a woman, out of a woman’s body and experience. Her major volumes are A Change of the World, Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law, The Dream of a Common Language, Your Native Land, Your Life, Of Woman Born, What is Found there?, An Atlas of the Difficult World etc.

08. Julia Ward Howe
Julia Ward Howe was also an American poet who was born in May 27, 1819, New York City. She was the writer of The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Modern Society, Later Lyrics, Passion-Flowers, Sex and Education, Is Polite Society Polite?, The Hermaphrodite these famous literary pieces are written by Julia Ward Howe.

09. Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop was the poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950 who was born in February 8, 1911, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. She never made the intimate details of her private life in her literary works on the contrary she has some negative capabilities. Her famous poems are- One Art, I Am in Need of Music, The Fish , A Miracle for Breakfast, Sestina , In the Waiting Room , Insomnia, Anaphora,  A Prodigal, Filling Station, First Death In Nova Scotia, Florida, At the Fishhouses, Conversation etc.

10. Gabriela Mistral
The Latin American woman who first received Nobel Prize in literature is Gabriela Mistral. This poet was born in 7 April 1889 who was known as a feminist writer.Love, betrayal, travel, American nationality, mother's love all intellectual things have been depicted in her writings. Her famous poems are- To See Him Again, The Sad Mother, Pine Forest, Tiny Feet, I am Not Alone,  Those Who Do Not Dance, Dusk,  The Stranger (La Extranjera), Decalogue Of The Artist, Anniversary, Death Sonnet I,  Creed, The Shining Host, The Rose etc.

11. Robert Frost
Robert Frost is the most well known American Poet. He drew his images from the New England countryside and his language from New England speech. He won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for four times. Frost's poems appear simple at first glance, but reveal themselves to be subtle and enigmatic upon further scrutiny. Some popular poems of Frost are: Mowing, Revelation, The Death of the Hired Man, The Road not Taken, Birches, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and Desert Places.

12. Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg was the founder of Beat Movement in America. He was born in June 3, 1926, in Nework. He graduated from Columbia University. He is famous for his poem Howl and was awarded 1974 National Book Award for his work The Fall of America: Poems of these States 1965-1971. He also got Robert Frost Medal in 1986. His notable literary works are- Howl and Other Poems, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters, The Yage Letters, Kaddish and Other Poems and The Fall of America: Poems of These States.



13. Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in a small American town called Amherst. During her twenties she had begun seriously to write poetry; just when can not be known because her early poems were destroyed. Her famous works are- But that defeated accent, Blazing in Gold and quenching in Purple, Between My Country — and the Others, Before I got my eye put out, Artists wrestled here!, Ambition cannot find him.,     A Book, A Day! Help! Help! Another Day!, A door just opened on a street, A Bird Came Down and so on.

14. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was famous for his Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was born in May 25, 1803, Boston, Massachusetts, United States who later on graduated from  Harvard University. His famous works are- Self-Reliance,Nature, Essays: First Series, Essays: Second Series and The Conduct of Life.

15. Sylvia Plath
She was an American poet and short story writer who was born in 1932, October 27. She is the wife of Ted Hughes. Her poetry is associated with the Confessional movement, and similar to the writings of Lowell. She won Pulitzer prize in 1982 for her The Collected Poems.


Works Cited
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe
http://www.poemhunter.com/edgar-allan-poe/
http://www.biography.com/people/sylvia-plath-9442550
http://www.juliaalvarez.com/about/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Mistral
http://www.biography.com/people/emily-dickinson-9274190
http://www.amazon.com/The-Fall-America-States-1965-1971/dp/0872860639
http://www.egs.edu/library/ralph-waldo-emerson/biography/

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Critical Analysis of Kamala Das' Poetry

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Kamala Das, as a confessional poetess opens a new arena where the feelings of a female, her dreams, hopes and sufferings are openly depicted in her poetry. Confessional poetry deals with private experience of human beings. Hemanta Singh in “Kamala Das a Confessional Poet: A Quest for Identity/Self” argues that, “In such a poetry, the self is a primary concern which is treated with utmost frankness and lack of restraint, written in ordinary speech and using open forms.” (141).  The confessionalism is one kind of techniques for the writers for searching the “Self” of human being. According to Hamanta Singh:

Her poetry is the acknowledgement and celebration of the beauty and courage of being a woman … asserting the need to establish her voice and identity. Finally, she is successful in her venture of searching the ultimate self and identity through the art of confession. (144)

Since Kamala Das has observed how her beloved plays tricks to make her a slave like a dwarf, in “The Looking Glass” she suggests the women to reconstruct the concept of masculine identity. Women are always considered as the object of gaze which Kamala Das wants to reverse by her poetry. In “(Re)locating (I)dentity With(in) Politicized (Re)presentation of Fe/Male Body in Kamala Das’ Poetry” According to Sultana Sarmin and Nadia Sarwar:

Apparently, it seems that the sensitive female psyche is vulnerable under the power and behavior of a male body, but a close reading of the images of represented bodies subvert the underlying power struggle between two gendered bodies. By putting the male on display and making it an object of exposure, this poem attempts to re-construct the masculine identity in a different way. (87)

The women in the society day by day loss their individuality by the hegemonial masculine identity. While interpreting “The Old Playhouse” Arya P A in her “Quest for Self in Kamala Das’ ‘The Old Playhouse’” states that, “Kamala Das portrays the ideal Indian household scene where male controls female in the name of love” (165). She argues that her husband tries to “tame her life according to his desire and in that process, she loses her own self and identity” (165).

As a result, quest for love and identity has become a major theme of Kamala Das’ poetry. Shubha Prakash and Sujata in their article “A Desperate Craving for Identity in the Major Works of Kamala Das” tell that “women are not just sexual objects but as a human as men and have their own sentiments and aspirations” (62). They opine that in her poetry Kamal Das “presents them [the women] as true lovers, mothers, sisters and saints. She always tries to search the true dignity of women” (62). Regarding the poem “The Freaks” both of them believe that, “Das also highlights the inborn passivity of the female and yet ends with the assertion “I am Freak.” This reveals the identity crisis of every Indian woman who flaunts ‘a grand, flamboyant lust’” (63). Again, Anupama in her “Quest for Self in Kamala Das’s My Story” tells that, “Her [Kamala Das] sexual escapades can also be regarded as part of her quest for identity. She indulged in extra-marital relationships as a rebellion against her uncompassionate husband and conventional society” (63). Similar kind of statement has also been given by R.K.J. Kurup:

In her [Kamala Das] autobiography she makes it clear that beyond the body there is a realm of freedom which is so important that it is all encompassing. Viewed in this light one comes to the conclusion that even her sexual adventures are experiments of her search for her true self” (116).

C.R. Nambiar shares his observation about the essence of Kamala Das poetry, “She becomes a feminist writer by making her women conscious and providing them wings to rise and flutter… The essence of her poems is struggle about her own self and… is a cry for freedom” (122). Thus, this cry for freedom works as a stimulator to awaken the readers. It is her journey from physical to the spiritual world by which Kamala Das has tried to show her readers the way to get back their identity. Tarun D. Rawal in “Quest for Female Identity in Kamala Das” points that, Kamala Das “is not really recommending adultery, but merely searching for a relationship which gives both love and identity and accepting as a woman and it is her right” (2). He argues, “A study of her psychic geography traces her journey from the physical to the spiritual. She struggles to free herself from the lure of the body and seeks redemption in Lord Krishna, a bodiless form” (2).
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Top 15 Poets in English Literature

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01. William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was born at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564. He is the eldest son of John and Mary Shakespeare. In 1595 he became the shareholder of “The Lord Chamberlains Men”. In 1599 he got involved in the “Globe Theatre”. His famous work are The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear and 154 sonnets. This great man died in 1616.

02. W.B Yeats
William Butler Yeats, an Irish poet, was born in 1865 in Dublin. His father is John Butler and mother Susan Pollexfen Yeats. He was the founder member of the Dublin Hermetic Society. The three major frameworks of his poetry are mythological, theological and philosophical. His major works are The Stolen child, The Sorrow of Love, The White Birds, The Secret Rose, Adam’s Curse, No Second Troy, A Coat, The Scholars, Her Praise, Demon and Beast, The Tower, Death, Byzantium, The Mother of God, High Talk, Under Ben Bulben etc. This poet died in 1939 AD.

03. John Keats
John Keats, the youngest of the romantic poets, was born in 1795 in London. During his lifetime he was not recognized as a great poet. In the modern age T.S.Eliot brought him the recognition as one of the major poets. Hellenism is one of the dominant aspects of Keats poetry. His major poems are Endymion, Isabella, Lamia, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Psyche, Ode to Autumn, Hyperion etc. His poetry is also full of sensuousness, aestheticism and escapism.

04.William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was born in 1770 at Cockermouth in England. He was known for his love of nature. He rejects secular values and emphasizes that a child comes from heaven as an innocent and happy creature. His major poems are The Thorn, Simon Lee, Poor Susan, Ruth, Michael, The Brothers, The Recluse, To Milton, The Idiot Boy, Nutting, Lucy Gray, Animal Tranquility and Decay etc. By his poems he always suggests his readers to stay close to nature.

05. John Donne
John Donne was born in London in 1572 in a business family. His marriage with Anne Donne makes him distressed though their conjugal life was enjoyable. For Donne it must be said that he is the pioneer of metaphysical poetry. A lot of his poetry deals with metaphysics. His remarkable poems are No Man Is An Island, Death Be Not Proud, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, For whom the Bell Tolls, Air And Angels, A Hymn To God The Father, Confined Love, A Lame Beggar, Go and Catch a Falling Star, The Sun Rising, Good Morrow, A Burnt Ship, A Fever, A Valediction Of Weeping etc.

06. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born at Durham in 1806. Her maiden name was Elizabeth. She is the daughter of a west India planter. After her first work noted above there was a pause of nine years, then appeared Prometheus Bound. The other works are The Seraphim and the poems, Sonnets from the Portuguese, Casa Guidi Windows, Aurora Leish, an immense poem of blank verse and Last Poems.

07. Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich, an American poet born in 1951, is best known for her scrutiny of the experiences of women in society. She has expressed that her aim is to write directly and overtly as a woman, out of a woman’s body and experience. Her major volumes are A Change of the World, Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law, The Dream of a Common Language, Your Native Land, Your Life, Of Woman Born, What is Found there?, An Atlas of the Difficult World etc.

08. Robert Frost
Robert Frost is the most well known American Poet. He drew his images from the New England countryside and his language from New England speech. He won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for four times. Frost's poems appear simple at first glance, but reveal themselves to be subtle and enigmatic upon further scrutiny. Some popular poems of Frost are: Mowing, Revelation, The Death of the Hired Man, The Road not Taken, Birches, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and Desert Places.

09. P.B. Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the romantic poets who rebelled against all conventional values. He was born in 1792 in a wealthy English family. His literary works reflect his profound revolutionary zeal. His Prometheus Unbound is a glorious venture for intellectual and spiritual liberty. Again Queen Mab attacks Christianity and all the Guardians of it. His famous poems Ode to the West Wind is also revolutionary in spirit.

10. Dylan Thomas
Thomas, Dylan Marlis(1914-1953) is a great poet, short story writer renowned for his celebration of natural beauty. He possessed immense gifts and talent which brought him his professional success as a writer, but in personal life he often suffered from disappointment. His first book of poetry, Eighteen Poems was published in 1934 when he was twenty years old. His best poems are- After the Funeral, The Hunchback in the Park, Poem in October, A Refusal to Mourn the Death and By Fire.

11. Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick was born in Cheapside, London in 1591. He followed Ben Jonson in form and pagan philosophy. The theme of his work was balanced personal paganism. His works was published in one volume with two titles Hesperides and Noble Numbers. There was 1400 poems in this volume. Hesperides was full of human joy and human brave life.

12. Sir Philip Sidney
He was a unique poet who embodied all the characters tha the Elizabeth admired. He wrote a long pastoral romance called Arcadia in two forms. He also composed Astrophel and Stella the first of great Elizabethan sonnet cycle. He wrote Old Arcadia and Ye Goat-herd Gods in the form of double sestets.

13. Edmund Spenser
He was called a "poet's' poet" and "prince of poet" because many poets learned the art of versification from him. He has his own Spenserian sonnet with a special rhyme scheme. He wrote The Faery Queene where he used a lot of allegorical devices. He is also known for the usage of musical effect and verse.

14. Ted Hughes
Edward James Hughes , well known as Ted Hughes, was born on August 17, 1930 in England. During his study at Cambridge University he met with Sylvia Plath whom Hughes married after his graduation. He wrote poems for children, fables for young readers and plays for theatre goers. He feels that non-human, or non-rational source fo life-force is overpowered by modern man's excessive importance to objective intellect. His famous literary works are: The Horses, Meeting, The Jaguar, Crow Hill, Fern, Relic, Crow's Last Stand, A Childish Prank, The Risen, The Knight, Ravens, Sheep, The Song, Meet My Folks!, Pike, How the Whale Became and so on.

15. John Milton
Shakespeare and Milton are the two figures that tower conspicuously above the goodly fellowship of men who have made our literature famous. John Milton (1608-1674)  was born in a family of music that helped him to catch the tone to write poems. His masterpieces were Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Paradise Lost was written in blank verse. He was self centered for he was the hero of most of his works and he wrote to leave a work after his death.

Works Cited:
http://www.poemhunter.com/john-donne/
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/john-milton
http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/559324/Edmund-Spenser
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sidney
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/percy-bysshe-shelley
http://www.online-literature.com/wordsworth/
http://www.biography.com/people/william-shakespeare-9480323



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Characters in Look Back in Anger

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Jimmy Porter: Jimmy Porter, the protagonist in Look Back in Anger is the 'angry young men' and the hero fo the play. He is a tall, thin, about twenty-five. He is a man disturbing mixture of sincerity and malice, of tenderness and cruelty. He is a man who, by his pride, alienates both those who are sensitive those who are insensitive. He is a pipe -smoker, good eater, social rebel but not a fatter man. He is interested, too, in listening to a musical concert on the radio, playing in a trumpet. He is a university graduate. He had tried his hand at various occupations before starting a sweet -stall from which he is now earning his livelihood .He is the spokesman for the younger post -war generation. One principal reason for his anger seems to be the disparity between his own working -class origin and the upper middle class to which his wife belongs. He is feeling frustrated and bitter because the society has not treated him properly and because society is callous.
Alison Porter:  Alison Porter is Jimmy`s wife. She comes from Britain`s upper class, but married into Jimmy`s working class lifestyle. The audience learns in the first act that she is pregnant with Jimmy`s child. Jimmy`s destructive anger causes her great strain and she eventually leaves him. Her child miscarries and she comes back to Jimmy to show him that she has undergone great suffering.
Helena Charles: Helena Charles is Alison`s best friend. She lives with them in their apartment while visiting for work.  Helena is from an upper class family. She is responsible for getting Alison to leave. She can be considered the play`s moral compass.
Colonel Redfern: Colonel Redfern is Alison`s father. He represents Britain great Edwardian past. He was a military leader in India for many years before returning with his family to England. He is critical of Jimmy and Alison`s relationship, but accepts that he is to blame for many of their problems because of his madding in their affairs.
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