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Denis Johnson was born on July 1, 1949, in Munich, West Germany. [1] Growing up, he also lived in the Philippines, Japan, and the suburbs of Washington, D.C. [5] [6] His father, Alfred Johnson, worked for the State Department as a liaison between the USIA and the CIA.
John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar.He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in the "confessional" school of poetry.
Lois Ann Lowry (/ ˈ l aʊər i /; [2] née Hammersberg; born March 20, 1937) is an American writer.She is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Giver Quartet, Number the Stars, and Rabble Starkey.
Giannina Braschi (born February 5, 1953) is a Puerto Rican poet, novelist, dramatist, and scholar.Her notable works include Empire of Dreams (1988), Yo-Yo Boing! (1998) and United States of Banana (2011).
The framing device is the narrator having a dream. In this dream or vision he is speaking to the Cross on which Jesus was crucified. The poem itself is divided up into three separate sections: the first part (lines 1–27), the second part (lines 28–121) and the third part (lines 122–156). [1]
The Giver is a 1993 American young adult dystopian novel written by Lois Lowry and is set in a society which at first appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopian as the story progresses. In the novel, the society has taken away pain and strife by converting to "Sameness", a plan that has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives.
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy (14 March 1844 – 30 January 1881) was a British poet and herpetologist. [1] Of Irish descent, he was born in London. [2] He is most remembered for his poem "Ode", from his 1874 collection Music and Moonlight, which begins with the words "We are the music makers, / And we are the dreamers of dreams", and which has been set to music by several composers ...
"Langland's Dreamer": from an illuminated initial in a Piers Plowman manuscript held at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. William Langland (/ ˈ l æ ŋ l ə n d /; Latin: Willielmus de Langland; c. 1330 – c. 1386) is the presumed author of a work of Middle English alliterative verse generally known as Piers Plowman, an allegory with a complex variety of religious themes.