Research Paper On John Ashbery

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John Ashbery, as a poet of the Postmodernism period, exemplified the best of the genre. Through his use of poetic devices, styles and thematic, john has given us some of the most iconic and universally appealing work. Particularly in his poems titled “The Painter” and “Some Trees”, we see examples of his most salient particularities and effective use of the English language. John Ashbery then stands as one of the greats in the pantheon of America and world literature.

John Ashbery was born on July 28,1927 in Worchester, New York. John Ashbery is the son of Helen and Chester Frederick Ashbery. His early education started at Deerfield Academy, an all-boys school, where he would read many poems by that of Dylan Thomas and W.H Auden. Sometime later, he began to write his own poetry. He attended Harvard College, where he was a member of the Harvard Advocate and in senior year completed his senior thesis about the poetry of W.H Auden. In 1949, he was presitigously awarded A.B cum laude during graduation. Throughout his education, he became friends with notable people, such as Kenneth Koch who was a fellow writer as well. Ashbery then began teaching many young minds at Brooklyn College, where his …show more content…

This time period is characterized as a strong emotion and imagination and there is no division between the artist and his art. John Ashbery specifically wrote in the subcategory of the Modernism known as surrealism.
In john ashbery’s poems the theme in most of them is that he interprets life in his poems and love, perspective, and reality in his poems. It is mainly about the play and process of the mind interacting poems with the world. In the two poems, I selected named: “Some Tress” and “The Painter” we see a peaceful theme in “Some Trees” and in “The painter” the main theme on the poem is that the narrator is explaining how the painter is trying to draw something difficult and is unsuccessful with many

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