Background of The Playwright Amy Lowell

BACKGROUND OF THE PLAYWRIGHT
AMY LOWELL
Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 May 12, 1925) was an American poet of
the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts, who posthumously won the
PulitzerPrize for Poetry in 1926.Lowell was born into Brookline's Lowell family, sister
to astronomer Percival Lowell and Harvard president Abbott Lawrence Lowell
School was a source of considerable despair for the young Amy Lowell. She considered herself to be
developing "masculine" and "ugly" features and she was a social outcast. She had a reputation among
her classmates for being outspoken and opinionatedShe never attended college because her family did
not consider it proper for a woman to do so. She compensated for this lack with avid reading and nearobsessive book collecting. She lived as a socialite and travelled widely, turning to poetry in 1902 (age
28) after being inspired by a performance of Eleonora Duse in Europe.
Her first published work appeared in 1910 in Atlantic Monthly. The first published collection of her
poetry, A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass, appeared two years later, in 1912. An additional group of
uncollected poems was added to the volume The Complete Poetical Works of Amy Lowell, published in
1955 with an introduction by Louis Untermeyer, who considered himself her friend.
Though she sometimes wrote sonnets, Lowell was an early adherent to the "free verse" method of
poetry and one of the major champions of this method. She defined it in her preface to "Sword Blades
and Poppy Seed"; in the North American Review for January, 1917; in the closing chapter of
"Tendencies in Modern American Poetry"; and also in the Dial (January 17, 1918), as: "The definition of
Vers libre is: a verse-formal based upon cadence. To understand vers libre, one must abandon all desire
to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow the lines to flow as they will when read
aloud by an intelligent reader. Or, to put it another way, unrhymed cadence is "built upon 'organic
rhythm,' or the rhythm of the speaking voice with its necessity for breathing, rather than upon a strict
metrical system. Free verse within its own law of cadence has no absolute rules; it would not be 'free' if
it had." [6]
Untermeyer writes that "[s]he was not only a disturber but an awakener."[7] In many poems, Lowell
dispenses with line breaks, so that the work looks like prose on the page. This technique she labeled
"polyphonic prose. Throughout her working life, Lowell was a promoter of both contemporary and
historical poets. Her book Fir-Flower Poets was a poetical re-working of literal translations of the works
of ancient Chinese poets, notably Li Tai-po (A.D. 701-762). Her writing also included critical works on
French literature. At the time of her death, she was attempting to complete her two-volume biography
of John Keats. Writing of Keats, Lowell said that "the stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world
always exacts of genius."
MONOLOGO PARA KAY MARIA CLARA
Si Maria Clara o Maria Clara de los Santos y Alba ay ang kaisaisang anak nina Don Santiago de los Santos at Doa Pia Alba. Ang
pangalang Maria Clara ay bilang pagbibigay unlak sa Birhen de
Salambaw at kay Santa Clara. Pinaniniwalaang nabuo si Maria
Clara dahil sa pagsayaw ni Doa Pia sa fiesta ng Obando ngunit
lingid sa kaalaman ng lahat, ang kanyang totoong ama ay si
Padre Damaso.
Mukhang europeo si Maria Clara ngunit ipinagpalagay ng lahat na
dahil lamang ito sa paglilihi ng kanyang ina. Simula noong siya'y
may edad na 14, nanirahan siya sa loob ng pitong taon sa
beaterio upang tumanggap ng mga turong banal.
Siya ang kasintahan ng bidang si Crisostomo Ibarra. Sapagkat
tutol ang kanyang amang Padre Damaso kay Ibarra, siya ay
ipinagkasunduang magpakasal sa isang Kastilang si Linares.
Lubhang nalungkot si Maria Clara sa desisyong ito kung kaya't
pinili niyang pumasok sa kumbento at magmongha. Sa huling
kabanata ng nobela, inilarawan ang isang mongha na nakita ng
dalawang guardia sibil sa taas ng bubong habang kumikidlat sa
langit at malakas ang ulan.
Siya ay kumakatawan sa isang isteryotipikal na dalagang Pilipina
noong panahong iyon: Mayumi, relihiyosa, at magalang.
THE BOND by Amy Lowell & Robert Frost

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