A Comparison on the Poems of the Charles Simic and Anne Caston
Nader Molla Arzani
Professor Harrell
ENGL 1301.S09
27 November 2011
Story of Migration, Story of Pilgrimage (Draft one)
A comparison on the poems of the Charles Simic and Anne Caston
Considering that the life experience and the background affects the poet works, talking about the poems of the Simic and Caston is talking about the two different views on life. Even when their share same ideas, the literary and the approach to the issue is different. Anne Caston’s background in medicine and her experience of being a nurse is a good source for rooting her emotional ideas of protecting people in her poems while the experience of the Simic as a immigrant is so bold in his poems.
Caston is a writer and an educator whose work has been published in literary and medical journals and she has a B.A. in Language and Literature from St. Mary's College of Maryland in 1993 and a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College in 1995. Anne is core faculty in poetry in University of Alaska's Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing (McFadyen-Ketchum). She is the Author of the two collection of poems: Flying Out With The Wounded (NYU Press, 1997) and Judah's Lion (Toad Hall Press, 2009) and currently she works on her third collection: The Book Of Splendor, and a memoir about growing up in the Deep South.
Charles Simic was born on May 9, 1938, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where he had a traumatic childhood during World War II. In 1954 he emigrated from Yugoslavia with his mother and brother to join his father in the United States. "I am especially touched and honored to be selected because I am an immigrant boy who didn't speak English until I was 15," responded Simic after being named Poet Laureate. He has published more than sixty books , twenty titles of his own poetry among them. Some of his own poetry books which has been considered in this essay are: That Little Something (Harcourt, 2008), selected Poems: 1963-2003 (2004), Master of Disguises (2010), The Voice
Professor Harrell
ENGL 1301.S09
27 November 2011
Story of Migration, Story of Pilgrimage (Draft one)
A comparison on the poems of the Charles Simic and Anne Caston
Considering that the life experience and the background affects the poet works, talking about the poems of the Simic and Caston is talking about the two different views on life. Even when their share same ideas, the literary and the approach to the issue is different. Anne Caston’s background in medicine and her experience of being a nurse is a good source for rooting her emotional ideas of protecting people in her poems while the experience of the Simic as a immigrant is so bold in his poems.
Caston is a writer and an educator whose work has been published in literary and medical journals and she has a B.A. in Language and Literature from St. Mary's College of Maryland in 1993 and a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College in 1995. Anne is core faculty in poetry in University of Alaska's Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing (McFadyen-Ketchum). She is the Author of the two collection of poems: Flying Out With The Wounded (NYU Press, 1997) and Judah's Lion (Toad Hall Press, 2009) and currently she works on her third collection: The Book Of Splendor, and a memoir about growing up in the Deep South.
Charles Simic was born on May 9, 1938, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where he had a traumatic childhood during World War II. In 1954 he emigrated from Yugoslavia with his mother and brother to join his father in the United States. "I am especially touched and honored to be selected because I am an immigrant boy who didn't speak English until I was 15," responded Simic after being named Poet Laureate. He has published more than sixty books , twenty titles of his own poetry among them. Some of his own poetry books which has been considered in this essay are: That Little Something (Harcourt, 2008), selected Poems: 1963-2003 (2004), Master of Disguises (2010), The Voice