Robert Lowell

Lowell wrote about things that were happening in the world during his time. I read "Fall 1961" which is about the fear of nuclear war.

Elizabeth Bishop

The poems I read were about nature, mostly the beach and the sea. I read "The Fish". It's About a fisherman who catches a prize fish that has gotten away at least four times before from other fishermen. In the end the fisherman lets the fish go. It was a greater victory to have caught such a great fish and then let it go, then to keep it and take it to shore.

Langston Hughes

I enjoyed his poetry. It was easy to read and understand. He wrote about the local daily life.
I read "Madam and the Rent Man". The rent man comes to collect the rent, but the renter is not willing to pay because the problems that need to be fixed haven't been. They both agree in the end the neither is happy.

Hart Crane

I read several of Crane's poems and had trouble understanding them.

T. S. Eliot

I read "Preludes" The street represents a mans daily life. He daydreams about what his life could be vs. what the reality of his life really is.

Marianne Moore

I did not care for her work. I read "A Grave". It's about a man looking at the sea and comparing it to a grave.

Robert Frost

His poetry seems to have a theme about nature. I read "The Road not Taken", one of my favorite poems.

Emily Dickinson

I read several of her poems and they all seemed sad and depressing.

Walt Whitman

I enjoyed Whitman's poems. One of the poems I read was "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night". It's about a father who stays with the body of his son on the battlefield overnight. You feel the emotions of the father as he watches "vigil" overnight.