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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.
Because of its shift from traditional verse and means of publication, proletarian poetry was not readily accepted, and it was received vaguely. Some saw proletarian poetry as not representative of the working class, that instead the white-collars were the writers because of their money and education, and not laborers themselves. [19]
His poem "A Plague of Starlings" is one of the more famous of his nature-based poems. [14] The poem "Night-Blooming Cereus" is another example of Hayden's depiction of the natural world. The poem presents a series of haiku-like stanzas. Hayden said that he was inspired by a trip to Duluth, Minnesota during the smelt fishing season.
After he began at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then a reporter, his first poem appeared on 11 December 1898. He became a naturalized citizen in 1902. For 40 years, Guest was widely read throughout North America, and his sentimental, optimistic poems were in the same vein as the light verse of Nick Kenny, who wrote syndicated columns during the same decades.
The poems in the second section of Diiie, for example, are militant in tone; according to Hagen, the poems in this section have "more bite" [36] than the ones in the first section and express the experience of being Black in a white-dominated world. DeGout states, however, that Angelou's poems have levels of meaning, and that poems in the ...
That same year, Lane won the Governor General's Award for his collection Poems, New and Selected. [ 2 ] Lane lived for many years with Crozier in Saanichton , British Columbia, where he tended a garden of 0.5 acres (0.20 ha) which was featured on the television program Recreating Eden , [ 3 ] and which he wrote about in the memoir There is a ...
Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay OJ (September 15, 1890 [1] – May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican-American writer and poet. He was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance.. Born in Jamaica, McKay first travelled to the United States to attend college, and encountered W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk which stimulated McKay's interest in political involvement.
"If We Must Die" is a poem by Jamaican-American writer Claude McKay (1890–1948) published in the July 1919 issue of The Liberator magazine. McKay wrote the poem in response to mob attacks by white Americans upon African-American communities during the Red Summer. The poem does not specifically reference any group of people, and has been used ...