Olds-Larkin

Niu Niu Zhu Jerome Ching Roy Huang || **Philip Larkin** || **Sharon Olds** || || * Raised as a Calvinist but rebelled against the strict rules and beliefs * Graduated from Stanford and earned a PhD in English from Columbia University * Vowed to write her own unique poetry after earning PhD || || * Uses shocking imagery and straightforward language * Use of explicit language || || * sometimes uses crass language and imagery to convey her thoughts about political and domestic violence, also sexuality and family relationships. - Adds to/changes from conventional poetry rules such as an unusual rhyme scheme and number of lines/stanza || * No particular rhyme schemes (some internal rhymes) * WWII || * Born: 1942
 * Andrew Moore
 * **Biographical Details** || * Early works shows influences of Eliot, Auden and Yeats.
 * Personal style developed with the growing influence of Thomas Hardy
 * Was a librarian
 * **Style** || * Use of enjambment and rhyme
 * Very conservative in writing, though usually puts a little twist, such as an unusual rhyme scheme.
 * Underlying message within text that contrasts tone of poem when first read
 * Very personal tone
 * **Subject** || * Death and fatalism were common themes/subjects (e.g. final major poem “Aubade”).
 * Later years; he wrote about the fatalism of England and the destruction of the countryside (“Going, Going”)
 * Idealized sense of national unity and identity || * Domestic and political violence, sexuality, family relationship and the body.
 * Relationships
 * Uses very personal experiences ||
 * **Language** || * Known for use of colloquial language and traditional word choice.
 * lack of literary techniques such as metaphor, personification, or assonance
 * full of literary techniques ||
 * **Structure** || * Highly structured, however, still flexible.
 * Writes 1 stanza poems ||
 * **Movement** || * Part of “The Movement” (post-war period in Britain)
 * Critic of modernism in contemporary art and literature. ||  ||
 * **Time period** || * 1922 - 1985
 * Grew up in San Francisco during the 60's ||