English 302
Week 4 Assignment
Postwar Emerging Issues
Thurby V. Chapman III
May 29, 2013
Instructor: Mrs. Barton
Many of the poets in the 19th century wrote about their life experiences that may have occurred in their life. Many of them had some hard and tough childhoods and adulthood experiences that happened and have haunted some of them. When the poets of the 19th century wrote their poetry or plays, they put their real life experiences in the poems and whatever that was going on in that time as well. Tennessee Williams wrote about the many challenges he faced in his life growing up in a dysfunctional household. His father was an alcoholic and was abusive, his mother was controlling, and his sister was diagnosed with schizophrenia and had to have surgery on her brain, which afterwards was put into an Institution. Tennessee sister Rose was his best friend. Tennessee did not have any friends when he was in school; he always had someone bullying him. His first big success was “The Glass Menagerie”, which is about a struggling family trying to survive after being left by their alcoholic father. The play is based on Tennessee’s life and how his family was in that time. “Tennessee writes from his own tensions” He once said. “For me, this is a form of therapy.” (The American Tradition in Literature 12th Edition Tennessee Williams p.1761) It accepted from him a language often poetic in its intensity, problems checked more by distortions than by faithfulness to actuality, and characters and themes that appear to strike at the truth through the sidelong routes of dream, myth, and nightmare. John Berryman was an American poet and scholar. He was a major person in the American poetry in the second part of the 20th century and was also a key person in the Confessional school of poetry. When Berryman was twelve years old, his father shot and killed himself outside of his son’s bedroom window. Berryman was haunted forever by his father’s suicide. Berryman wrote about his
Postwar Emerging Issues
Thurby V. Chapman III
May 29, 2013
Instructor: Mrs. Barton
Many of the poets in the 19th century wrote about their life experiences that may have occurred in their life. Many of them had some hard and tough childhoods and adulthood experiences that happened and have haunted some of them. When the poets of the 19th century wrote their poetry or plays, they put their real life experiences in the poems and whatever that was going on in that time as well. Tennessee Williams wrote about the many challenges he faced in his life growing up in a dysfunctional household. His father was an alcoholic and was abusive, his mother was controlling, and his sister was diagnosed with schizophrenia and had to have surgery on her brain, which afterwards was put into an Institution. Tennessee sister Rose was his best friend. Tennessee did not have any friends when he was in school; he always had someone bullying him. His first big success was “The Glass Menagerie”, which is about a struggling family trying to survive after being left by their alcoholic father. The play is based on Tennessee’s life and how his family was in that time. “Tennessee writes from his own tensions” He once said. “For me, this is a form of therapy.” (The American Tradition in Literature 12th Edition Tennessee Williams p.1761) It accepted from him a language often poetic in its intensity, problems checked more by distortions than by faithfulness to actuality, and characters and themes that appear to strike at the truth through the sidelong routes of dream, myth, and nightmare. John Berryman was an American poet and scholar. He was a major person in the American poetry in the second part of the 20th century and was also a key person in the Confessional school of poetry. When Berryman was twelve years old, his father shot and killed himself outside of his son’s bedroom window. Berryman was haunted forever by his father’s suicide. Berryman wrote about his
References: www.poetryfoundation.org www.english.illnois.edu www.poemhunter.com (George Perkins, Barbara Perkins the American Tradition in Literature 12th edition pp.1760-1762, pp.1872-1873)