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Theodore Huebner Roethke (/ ˈ r ɛ t k i / RET-kee; [1] May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was an American poet. He is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation, having won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1954 for his book The Waking, and the annual National Book Award for Poetry on two occasions: in 1959 for Words for the Wind, [2] and posthumously in ...
The Far Field is a 1964 poetry collection by Theodore Roethke, and the poem for which it was named. It was Roethke's final collection, published after his death in 1963. It was Roethke's final collection, published after his death in 1963.
The poem belongs among Roethke's series of "Greenhouse Poems" the first section of The Lost Son, a sequence hailed as "one of the permanent achievements of modern poetry" [1] and marked as the point of Roethke's metamorphosis from a minor poet into one of "the first importance", [2] into the poet James Dickey would regard among the greatest of ...
Pound rejected traditional poetic form and meter and of Victorian diction. He believed both steered American poetry toward greater density, difficulty, and opacity, with an emphasis on techniques such as fragmentation, ellipsis, allusion, juxtaposition, ironic and shifting personae, and mythic parallelism.
Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry that consists of three lines. In a traditional haiku written in Japanese, the first line contains five syllables, the second line contains seven syllables and ...
[106] [107] This can be observed across contemporary published poetry in the West as an intensification within individual poets' oeuvres of "all kinds of style, subject, voice, register and form" [108] which replaces, in large measure, the more conventional or traditional search by authors for a singular definitive poetic voice.
Roethke began writing poetry while in high school, and began his attempt at approaching poetry more seriously while in graduate school at the University of Michigan. [3] Years before the publication of "My Papa's Waltz", Roethke began suffering from manic depression and was hospitalized in 1935. Roethke continued to struggle with his bipolar ...
The rejection of traditional forms and structures for poetry that began in the first half of the 20th century coincided with a questioning of the purpose and meaning of traditional definitions of poetry and of distinctions between poetry and prose, particularly given examples of poetic prose and prosaic poetry.