richard purdy wilbur

Richard Wilbur was born on March 1, 1921 in Manhattan, New York. Two years later Richard and his family moved to North Caldwell, New Jersey, where he would spend most of his childhood growing up. Richard had a younger brother named Lawrence. While growing up the two were inseparable. In 1938 Richard enrolled in the all-male college of Amherst where he majored in English. Richard first ambition was to be a newspaper cartoonist. This might have been influenced by his father being an artist and his mother being a newspaper journalist. While at Amherst Richard was the chairman of the student newspaper. He did both write articles and drew the cartoons. In June of 1942, after his graduation, Richard married Charlotte Ward. Charlotte was a student at a sister school of Amherst named Smith College. Richard would often walk nine miles separating the schools to visit her. Shortly after being married World War II had begun. Richard joined the Army hoping to be a cryptographer, which was someone who decoded the enemy’s codes. Halfway through his training he was transferred to Infantry. After three years of seeing combat and losing many of his friends Richard left t

While growing up in rural North Caldwell and not having many friends besides his brother to play with Richard spent most of his time wandering the farm and countryside. This was said to have a significant impact in some of his writing. This gave him a lot of the imagination he used in writing some of his most memorable nature poems, such as “Hamlen Brook” and “The Beautiful Changes.” World War II also had an impact on Richard’s career. Richard never really thought of himself as a primary poet, but while passing time he began to write poems to his wife back home. This started his passion for writing poetry and everything fell in place from then on. In 1956 Richard won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for his work in Things of This World. Richard also won the Pulitzer Prize in 1989 and won the award Bollingen Prize for poetry and translation. In 1987 Richard succeeded Robert Penn Warren to become the second Poet Laureate of the United States.

One poem I tried to analysis was “Boy at the Window.” I really had a difficult time trying to evaluate the poems. I have never gotten the hang of interpreting the meaning of poems or what the author is trying to get across to the audience. I am completely lost when is comes to poetry it is just not one of my strengths.

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