… 26, 1874. He was named after the Civil War general Robert E. Lee. He started kindergarten in 1879, but he only went for one day and from then on his mother who was a teacher home schooled him. His mother taught him for about 10 years. He did…

… 26, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. Along with being a playwright, literary critic, and editor, he was an American-English poet. Eliot lived In St. Louis for the first eighteen years of his life and attended Harvard University. He left the United…

… Prufrock" is not a poem about love, at least in any traditional sense. Rather it is a collection of the fragmented thoughts of a man without self-esteem. Far from being about love, it is about one man's inability to love (himself or the world around…

… Eliot, was born September 26, 1888 in Saint Louis Missouri. He was considered to be one of the great leader's in the modernist movement in poetry during the 1920's thru the end of the century. Some of his modern techniques can be seen in works such as…

… Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" is a story of revenge, hatred and murder. "The Cask of Amontillado" contains two main characters, Montresor, and Fortunato. In the story Poe explains how time after time Fortunato has injured Montresor and has now even…

… The title of the poem first suggested to me a poem of brave glory and the glamour of war; however, as I began to read, the words frightened me. Every piece of literary work I have read about WW1 can not match the ferocity of Owen's words. The…

… In Catullus' poetry, he displays the two-sided affection he has for his lover, Lesbia. Through her, he presents the love affair in which he experiences the joy of passionate love requited and the torment of betrayal, both at the same time. On one…

… Romantic contempt and derision for a class-based, industrially driven society that relentlessly experiences the horror of oppression, injustice, hypocrisy, and child labor. This literary piece also captures the Romantic emphasis on the fact…

… "The Humble-Bee" and Whittier's "Telling the Bees" The English custom of telling the bees when there was a death in the family, and of covering the hives with black cloth to prevent them from leaving is what Whittier's poem, "Telling the Bees"…

… Life and Death The image of the color red is presented in at least 25 of the poems of this collection. In some instances, red is a symbol of passion and life, but in others it is offered as a symbol of suffering, death, and waste. Sandburg frequen…