The poetry in Clara Barton's journals and notebooks, from January 23, 1849, to November 5, 1849, offers a fascinating view into the life of one of America's most famous humanitarians. The primary sources illuminated a pivotal moment in Barton's life, allowing readers to gain insight into her feelings, thoughts, and artistic ambitions. After reading it, it is clear that the author sought a platform for self-reflection and artistic expression. Barton's journals provide insight into her life and personality by painstakingly documenting her activities, ideas, and contacts. "Oh, let me fly on strong opinions, / The ties of earth untwine," shows Barton's desire for personal pleasure or a profound sense of meaning. Furthermore, it expresses a desire for liberty and autonomy. Despite the absence of a …show more content…
On the other side, the source can be used to suggest that Barton's artistic aspirations and personal troubles were distinct from her charitable gestures, underlining her character's rich complexity beyond a simple story of altruism. This viewpoint is supported by empirical facts, such as her poetry's primary concentration on subjective sensations and ambitions. To corroborate these allegations and delve into the nuances of Barton's life, additional primary materials such as mail, interviews, or supplemental poetry works and diaries created by Barton would be precious. Individuals may turn to extra resources, such as biographies and historical assessments, to thoroughly understand the author's literary achievements and the socio-cultural milieu of the mid-nineteenth century. The sources should provide relevant information related to the study questions, such as detailed reports of Barton's leadership in various organizations or encounters with fellow humanitarians throughout his
Griffin strikes all of these aspects in her essay. What is most compelling about the essay, however, is the way Griffin incorporated personal, family, and world history into a chilling story of narrative and autobiography, without ever losing the factual evidence the story provided. The chapter reads like an entire novel, which helps the audience to understand the concepts with a clear and complete view of her history, not needing to read any other part of the book. Two other authors, Richard Rodriguez, and Ralph Ellison, who write about their experiences in life can possibly be better understood as historical texts when viewed through the eyes of Griffin. Rodriguez explores his own educational history in his essay “The Achievement of Desire” and Ralph Ellison depicts his own journeys and personal growth in his essay, “An Extravagance of Laughter”. Both essays, which when seen through Susan Griffin’s perspective, can be reopened and examined from a different historical view, perhaps allowing them to be understood with a more lucid view of history and what it is really about.
The author, Elizabeth Brown Pryor, wrote her biography of Clara Barton with the intent to not only tell her life, but to use personal items (diary and letters) of Clara’s found to help fill information of how Clara felt herself about incidents in her life. Her writing style is one that is easy to understand and also one that enables you to actually get pulled into the story of the person. While other biographical books are simply dry facts, this book, with the help of new found documents, allows Pryor to give a modern look on Barton’s life. This book gave a lot of information about Ms. Barton while also opening up new doors to the real Clara Barton that was not always the angel we hear about. Pryor’s admiration for Ms. Barton is clear in her writing, but she doesn’t see her faults as being a bad thing, but rather as a person who used all available means to help her fellow soldiers and friends along in life.
Gwendolyn Brooks was born on June 7, 1917 in Topeka, Kansas, to KeziahWims Brooks and David Anderson Brooks. Brooks’ family didn’t have much income. Her father David Brooks was a janitor. Keziah Brooks, Gwendolyn’s mother was a school teacher. Soon after Gwendolyn was born her family moved away from Kansas. The Brooks family relocated to Chicago, Illinois, where Brooks remained the rest of her life. Brooks, as a child, loved to read. She was encouraged by her family and friends to do so. She spent most of her childhood immersed in her writing. Gwendolyn became a published poet at an early age. At age 13, Brooks’ poem Eventide was published. Her poem appeared in “American Childhood.” Brooks’ poems were frequently published in the Chicago Defender. At age 16, Brooks had written over seventy poems (J.Williams 28).In Brooks’ early years of writing she spoke on a lot. She talked about racial discrimination and praised African American heroes. Also, Brooks satirized both blacks and whites (A.williams1). In 1993, Gwendolyn meet poet James Weldon Johnson and writer Langston Hughes. The two influenced Brooks’ writing tremendously. The influence lead her to write over seventy poems (Bloom 12).
Influenced by the style of “plainspoken English” utilized by Phillip Larkin (“Deborah Garrison”), Deborah Garrison writes what she knows, with seemingly simple language, and incorporating aspects of her life into her poetry. As a working mother, the narrator of Garrison’s, “Sestina for the Working Mother” provides insight for the readers regarding inner thoughts and emotions she experiences in her everyday life. Performing the daily circus act of balancing work and motherhood, she, daydreams of how life might be and struggles with guilt, before ultimately realizing her chosen path is what it right for her and her family.
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself” (Joseph Campbell). Clara Barton could be regarded as a hero because she went into several military battles during the civil war with a strong mindset to help the soldiers who were wounded and to provide supplies that were needed but scarce17.She was a woman of many talents who accomplished a lot but became best known for the founding of the Red Cross in America. Her humanitarian contributions and compassionate personality allowed her to connect with many people. As inspiring as Clara Barton was, she wasn’t born a hero but became one with the influence of her younger years. Clara Barton’s family life and personal struggles when she was younger, ultimately shaped
“She understood the subtle and overt relationships between religion and politics in new and old England and participated in them. She intervened as a writer to free yourself and to advance the antislavery movement. . . She challenged the American Revolutionaries, as well as their English counterparts, to respond to her political as poetic genius.” (98) The political commotion going on outside her home is the reason why Wheatley chose poetry specifically as her medium. As Rawley explained during the time period, “No one could deny poetry’s religious and political significance (although Thomas Jefferson, in response to Wheatley, would try). Nor could those attuned to cultural traditions deny the poet the right to reflect on the glory, and significance, of her own efforts, however much in service of patrons, kings, or Gods.”
The poetry of Phillis Wheatley is crafted in such a manner that she is able to create a specific aim for each poem, and achieve that aim by manipulating her position as the speaker. As a slave, she was cautious to cross any lines with her proclamations, but was able to get her point across by humbling her own position. In religious or elegiac matters, however, she seemed to consider herself to be an authority. Two of her poems, the panegyric “To MAECENAS” and the elegy “On the Death of a young Lady of Five Years of Age,” display Wheatley’s general consistency in form, but also her intelligence, versatility, and ability to adapt her position in order to achieve her goals.
The level of her intelligence is evident through out her poems as she makes reference to various subjects such as religion and politics. She was one of the pioneers to disprove the majority consensus that Africans are incapable of learning such kinds of knowledge. Although the exact understanding of her identity is ambiguous to many, It is quite clear to see that in her poems she envisioned better times ahead where all regardless of race and color can live in peace and harmony. Through her poems, Wheatley subtly expressed her visions, imaginations of the new world “Columbia” where America will be unified, free from oppression and tyranny.
Throughout the eighteenth century there were a lot of African American slaves and a problem with women’s rights. During that time there were people writing about literature and the society around them that related to slaves. There were a lot of people influenced on what was written during that time. Frances E. W. Harper was a American poet that was a free slave. Hse wrote about her views on the world. Analysis of Harpers life and poems will show how influenced she was through her writing.
American Literature. 6th Edition. Vol. A. Ed. Nina Baym. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. 2003. 783-791
“She did not write to “up lift her race,” either; because in her view it was already uplifted, she (like Claude McKay) was not embarrassed to present her characters as mixtures of good and bad, strong and weak. Some of the other Harlem writers thought
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) and Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) operated under vastly different yet similarly restrictive environments. Bradstreet, part of the early Puritan migration to Massachusetts, dealt with societal expectations that as a woman her domain should be contained to her sphere of her home and children (Eisinger, 1951). In contrast, Wheatley, born in West Africa, kidnapped around the age of six or seven, and enslaved in Boston, experienced the brutal limitations of slavery (Bennett, 1998). Despite these restrictions, both women learned to read and write, using their literary talents to carve out a voice for themselves within their communities. Bradstreet’s work often delved into her personal life and spiritual beliefs (Cowell, n.d.), while Bennett points out that Wheatley's poems tackled the themes of freedom and identity, often containing classical, religious, and neoclassical elements.
Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1420058856/LitRC?u=gwt1&sid=bookmark-LitRC&xid=39b2892a. Accessed 17 Mar. 2024. The. Originally published in Southern Humanities Review, vol. 78. 11, No. 1 -. 4, Fall 1977, pp.
Canadian popstar, Justin Bieber; took second place in a local talent competition at a young age and later turned into a YouTube phenomenon. Bieber signed a record contract with Usher and became the first solo artist to have four singles enter the Top 40 before the release of a debut album. His “My World” album has gone platinum in multiple countries (Hoffman). Although he later experienced a ton of media exposure resulting from offensive activity, Bieber made his comeback in 2015 with his first number one song, “What Do You Mean?”. Coming from a small town in Canada, unable to afford musical lessons, besides drum lessons, Justin taught himself how to play various types of instruments, including guitar, trumpet and also the piano.
Her achievement in translating the Australian experience into poetry led in her best work to a rich inheritance of lyricism and directness. Through stories told by older workers on the property she learnt of the pioneers' part in both the destruction of the land and the dispossession and murder of the aboriginal people. The sense of fear she felt at invasion enabled her to understand, at some level, how the Aborigines would have felt.