Best known for bringing the Imagist Movement to America during the.
age of Jazz, Amy Lowell also brought forth an undeclared sexual revolution.
for poetry in America. Born into a wealthy family of scholars in Brookline,.
Massacusetts she resided on 200 acres of land and was home schooled. In.
fact, she seldom left the estate without her parents It wasn't until the age of.
twenty eight that Amy Lowell began literary career with a poem which was.
addressed to an actress she had seen perform. For the next twenty three.
years, until her death in 1925, her literary works continued to be published.
steadily.
Amy Lowell was born at a time in history which included prosperity of.
every kind, and new ideas. Preceding her birth, there had been some vast.
economical changes and advancements. Telephones had been invented, along.
with trolleys, light bulbs, and even elevators. During the years in which Amy.
Lowell lived, the New England are remained relatively calm and peaceful. .
Having just ended a war, which required the expand the work force began to.
fall apart, and a nationwide depression began. However, coming from a.
wealthy family with a large estate, this problem was of no relevance to the.
Lowell family. However, the bombing of the U.S. battleship in 1989, off the.
coast of Maine did stir up some excitement for most of the people who.
resided in New England. During her time, the first Model T Ford was.
produced along with the first power flight. In 1919, the Boston police began.
a strike which would take the involvement of the National Guard to break up. .
In 1920, a moment all women in the U.S. had been waiting for, the nineteenth.
Amendment was ratified, allowing women to vote. This idea was especially.
important to many women in Massachusetts, because they were some of the.
most active women's rights leaders.
Although Amy Lowell was not as well known as many other authors.
who wrote during the same period as her, she influenced their ideas,.
Amy Lowell was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1874 at Sevenls, her family estate. ... Mostly she lived the life of a wealthy socialite. ... Throughout her life she was encouraged to write at an early age. ... From about 1914 on, Russell, a widow who was 11 years older then Lowell became Amy's travelling and living companion and secretary. ... In 1913 Amy read a poem signed by "H.D., Imagiste." ...
Lowell compares poetry to eating, rambling on about how she believes poetry is a necessity in everyday life. ... Amy Lowell's opinionated essay begins and finishes by stating that everyone needs poetry in their lives in some way, shape, or form. ... Amy Lowell is a poet herself and she has a passion for it, so maybe that is her personal way of venting her emotions. ... Amy Lowell must have lost many readers by not looking at what other people may see as their passion and their way to express emotion. ... Amy Lowell destroyed her own paper by pushing her paper and over the top opinions ont...
The word "animate" means having life or full of life and energy. ... On the other hand, traditional art such as drawing and painting, "is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in," as explained by Amy Lowell. ... In doing so, the artist, as Amy Lowell says, can express his or her personality, his or her current behavior or attitude in his or her world. ...
Poets and audience seek the examination of power within a literary content to better predict its impact in real life. ... Amy Lowell senses the presence of power through colors: "Saffron, rubies, the yellows of beryls, and the indigo-blue of quartz; flights of rose, layers of chrysoprase, points of orange, spirals of vermilion" (20-23). ... Life indeed has an absolute authority over many known objects, providing the essential foundation to the growth of others'. ... "In the market-place," describes Amy Lowell, "men chaffered for her" (31, 37). ... Poems come ...
Rodwell is a kind and caring man who later took his own life after witnessing his fellow soldiers torture and kill a cat. ... When the cat is tortured and killed he feels helpless and simply wants to take his own life. ... Birth I can give you - but life I cannot. ... The poem Patterns by Amy Lowell, describes the way a woman feels when the man she thought she was going to marry goes off to war and unfortunately passes away there. ... Now he is dead," (Lowell 64-67, 82-91). ...
Gertrude Stein's syntactical and Amy Lowell's imagistic experiments influenced Cummings greatly and are exceptionally clear in his writing. ... Sandburg tended to write about things going on in his life, sorted his poems into themes, of sorts. ...
Walt spent the rest of his life striving to be a new kind of poet who was affectionate, brawny, and heroic lead by the force of his magnetic personality. ... Publishing his book of Poems "A Boy's Will", also Robert met other American Poets in England including fellow New Englander Amy Lowell and the avant-garde writer Ezra Pound. ... Many poets have taught us great lessons and shown great emotions towards life, love, friendship, and lots of other things. ...
(Donald Worster) Many people traveled from the Dust Bowl in the east to California for hope of a better life. ... Since its shelf life is more than seven years, many homes had some. ... The new technologies were applied to help everyday life. ... Not knowing of the error, Tombaug at Lowell Observatory in Arizona did a very careful sky survey that turned up Pluto anyway. ... (Tames pg20)- In 1930 Amy Johnson became the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia in 17 days. ...
Spingarn has been described as the "most selfless of white philanthropists", as he devoted his life to promoting racial equality through various measures and initiatives" (Becprice 1). ... For instance, one of the most important poets named Langston Hughes were influenced by several whites in his literary life. ... Hart stated, "He had a most dramatic meeting with his literary idol of the time, Vachel Lindesayhe had a chat with Lindsay and his wife, and was given a gift of Amy Lowell's John Keats, along with a note directing him to study the New Poetry" (Hart 617)...
