 trying to hide myself it's not just that I had my breakup but I just managed to read Emily Dickinson's poetry and I was so fascinated that I actually want to commit suicide but then there's something that stops me and that is the optimism of Robert Frost in the morning I just came across a poem by Robert Frost and it was filled with so much optimism that I dropped the idea so I think American poetry is so blessed with different kind of themes and people writing about different subject matter India is best as well we cannot underestimate our country but then we will be talking about Indian poetry some other day in today's video let's come and talk about some really important American poets and some famous American poetry. Now let's talk about one of the most famous American poet she is Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson has written more than thousand poems in her lifetime and I'm not kidding friend she has actually managed to write thousand poems there are people like me who cannot manage to write it in a single poem but then we have great literary superstars like Emily Dickinson who have written so many poems she remained isolated in her lifetime and all her poems were published after her death and she's been called none of amorous you must remember this thing that just because of an isolated nature she was called none of amorous and this was a question in December 2012 that who is called none of amorous and it is Emily Dickinson we also find that there are so many themes which are there in her poems we have themes of nature theme of death theme of hope animals come as symbols in her poems because she has this love for animals she has written this famous poem called I heard the flibas speak so you know she loves animals and she uses them as symbols in order to convey her feelings one very very important and famous form written by Emily Dickinson is hope is a thing with feathers that perches in the soul here in this form she has tried to compare hope with a bird and you know she has made this comparison saying that you know just like a bird is there in a cage similarly hope is there in my heart and even in the darkest times of my life I can hear the voice of hope there is a letter very influential poem by Emily Dickinson because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me the carriage head but just ourselves and immortality it's a very very important poem and in this poem she beautifully portrays death as something which she welcomes and she says that death is a means to carry your sword to an eternal world and she embraces death she is not a person who is frightened by death but she says that death is so beautiful it will take your soul to a different plane and you will rejoice and sing forever so that's that's a concept of death and this is how Emily Dickinson approaches death and approaches hope so I would recommend you all to read some very really important poems especially hope is a thing with feather and because I could not stop for that there are so many other important poems of Emily Dickinson you can see the list of all the important poets associated with American literature on my website www.arpadakarga.com you can go and check a list and start preparing for UGC Net accordingly in my website you'll find a section called online course content in that under the module 2 I have listed all the important American writers that you must study if you're preparing for UGC Net exam so if you like that list you can join my online course because in that course I give you detailed notes and details summary of all the important writers their works and important questions from net point of view the next important and famous American poet that we're going to talk about is Walt Whitman I hope you guys have seen Dead Poets Society it's a fabulous movie which talks about a university where we have a teacher called Mr. Keating played by a famous actor Robin Williams and that teacher Mr. Keating's he is trying to teach literature to the college students and why he's teaching literature he gives references about so many great literary poets and writers and he tried to teach the students the real flavor of literature so he's a wonderful teacher and you know that movie is a must watch for all the literature lovers I've been watching that movie since four five years and I've never got enough of it so I would recommend you to go and watch that movie because there is this very famous scene in that movie when Robin Williams asked all the students to stand on the table of their study table and shout out loud a very famous line and that line is I sound my barbaric york over the rooftops of the world yes he said that I sound my barbaric york over the rooftops of the world and if you're wondering where these lines come from it is a very very famous line said by Walt what to which men is a port poet who has written poems in free verse and this free verse type is also used by Emily Dickinson as well and this is a very prominent question in that exam that what women used which kind of verse in his poetry and it is free verse and open form basically so we find that what has written so many important works out of which oh captain my captain is very important it was in a written for a brahman Lincoln with the president of America he has also written a collection of poems under songs of myself and there is a very very beautiful poem which is a part of that collection which says I celebrate myself and what I assume you shall assume because every atom that belongs to me as good belongs to you so you see how he's talking about the transcendentalist theme and just like Immerson and Henry David Thoreau he too believes in soul and how nature influences each and every person we have Henry David Thoreau who speaks this beautiful line that I went to the woods in order to live deep I wanted to live deliberately and suck out the man who's alive and on the other hand we have Immerson talking about how nature and how soul will help you to connect to the over soul again he talks about all these ideas in his famous essay self-reliance and American scholar so we find that all these people are talking about transcendentalist ideas and there is this literally movement which was going in America during that time called transcendentalism which had members like Walt Whitman Henry David Thoreau we had Margaret Fuller as a part of that movement also the main prominent writer was Immerson Ralph Wendell Immerson so these are some important things that you must remember about Walt Whitman now let's move on to the third important American poet now let's look at my favorite poet Robert Frost Robert Frost is called New England's poet and this was a question in December 2006 wherein they asked that New England poet is a term given to and the answer was Robert Frost we also understand that Robert Frost poem are very approachable and very connectable the reason behind it is that he's talking about real life incidents and experiences and he's observing the society and then writing very simple and very easy to understand poem and that is why we find that Robert Frost poetry is there in the school curriculum as well so you know I remember when I was in 8th standard there was this poem Road Not Taken which was a part of our English curriculum and there was these beautiful lines of those poems that two roads diverged into a word and I took the one which was less traveled by and that has made all the difference and I still remember that when I read this poem I was so moved by this poetry that I decided that in life I will take up a career which is a little bit different and that's why I started teaching English literature so somewhere you will see that Robert Frost's poetry will connect your life decisions and choices and you will be able to mold your life accordingly then there was this beautiful poem which I read in my 10th standard which said that is chopping by woods on a snowy evening and there were these beautiful lines by which these poems end and the line was that the woods are lovely dark and deep and I have promises to keep in miles to go before I sleep in miles to go before I sleep so these were the lines which were quoted by Jawaharlal Nehru in a letter which he wrote for his daughter Indra Gandhi so you can see how influential these lines must have been that Jawaharlal Nehru wrote these lines for Indra Gandhi so you find that you know all the poems of Robert Frost are like that we have poems called Birches which is a very very understandable and a very very important poem from net point of view also then there is this poem Fences which has this line good fences made good neighbor and you will see this line was a part of Robert Frost's poem but it has been used so much that it has become a proverb a map so you find that Robert Frost's poems they all are very very approachable and any age person any background person who reads poems so he's able to actually understand and realize the words of poetry so we have so many other poets like Robert Frost we have Sylvia Platt we have Ezra Pound we have William Carlos William these are also some very very influential American poets study all these American poets and their important poetry in my online course which is available on my website www.alpettakarba.com I make sure I cover each and every important point which is relevant from net point of view also I cover details summary of all these important poems so that you don't need to go to any other website or any other book you don't need to refer and you can directly understand the poem from my audio lectures but before you leave I would like to tell you that please do subscribe to my channel because I post videos every Saturday and every Sunday to help you with 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