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'Marissa Puzino ENGL 011: 33 Dr. Kayorie April 3, 12 The transit of Death, fight and Neglect â€Å"All metrical composition has to do is make a fond communication” (Stevie smith) Florence Marg aret smith in like manner cognise as Stevie smith was a celebrated face poet and novelist that constituted form 1902 to her tragic demise in 1971. Throughout her bearing metalworker went through with(predicate) a lot of sadness with her family and especi solelyy within herself. When Stevie metalworker became present with the face of goal, she was fascinated by the wo emotions of depression she began to feel.As a result, metalworker apply her emotions relating to neglect, expiry, and contendfare in much of her writing. Stevie metalworker was best kn have for her poetry â€Å" non Waving entirely Dr give birthing,” which is almost neglect. In this poetry she portrays the speaker as temporary hookupifestation â€Å"goodbye” to his so called friend s, and welcoming death. She praises grief and sorrow in her poetry â€Å" felicity. ” present she states that all gladness has been inexistent in her liveness. struggle was another prominent theme in her writing. Much of her writing was drawn from her own bearing experiences yet various work of literature was influenced by warfare, the middle kin British flavour, and religion.Her rime, â€Å"I Remember,” was a war themed poesy close to an antiquated hu hu piece of music having flashbacks on the Second human race war on his bridal darkness. Stevie metalworker eloquently channeled her emotions from her troubling life experiences of death, neglect, and war, into moving whole industrial plant of literature. Florence Margaret â€Å"Stevie” metalworker was born in 1902 in Hull, England (Biography of Stevie metalworker, Poem Hunter). At the feel on with of three, subsequently her mother left the family to join the northeastward Sea Patrol, sh e moved to Palmers Green with her stimulate and her baby Molly (Spalding 3).During her teenage historic period her mother passed remote, leaving her and her sis to live with their auntie also referred to as â€Å"The social lion” (Stevie metalworker, The honorary society of Ameri loafer Poets). After attend high school she went to North capital of the United Kingdom Collegiate School for Girls where she began as a secretary with the magazine publisher George Newnes. She go along to become the private secretary to Sir Nevill Pearson and Sir rude Newnes. Her first book, Novel On xanthous Paper, was published in 1936, which was nearly the ill at ease(p) emotions of World War I. Stevie metalworker passed outside in 1971, resulting from a brain tumor.Stevie metalworker’s life was filled with death and grief beginning at age five and lasting until her death in 1971. At the age of five Stevie metalworker was diagnosed with Tuberculous peritonitis (Barbara, and Mc brien 23). After growth this dioceanse she was sent to a the pits near Broadstairs. metalworker had a very(prenominal) close birth with her mother. creation away from home and her mother for such a long period of time caused her to experience much stress and anxiety. smith’s mother died of heart disease when she was sixteen years old, which was a very traumatic experience for Stevie Smith.Even fifty years later during an interview Smith burst into disunite when asked a question about her mothers walk (Huk 39). Unfortunately, she became preoccupied with the idea of death. Smith thought process that if she forced death upon herself, her misery would end. Realizing that she hadn’t died and life would continue another daylight only sustained her thoughts of death, eventually leading(a) her into depression (Barbara, and Mcbrien 25). Being compelled by thoughts of death and grief, Smith frequently incorporated those themes in her poems.In mavin of Stevie Smithà ¢â‚¬â„¢s interviews she states, â€Å"They are create verbally from the experiences, of my own life, its pressures and fancies, and they are written to give ease and relief to me” (Spalding 197). Smith implies that she writes her poems not only for the enjoywork forcet of her readers, solely as a way of make do with her own emotions and feelings. Writing about her sorrows gave her excitement to continue on and face her troubles. She writes much than often about her struggles than her happiness, which is shown in her poem â€Å"Happiness. In the poem â€Å"Happiness,” Stevie Smith describes happiness as quiet and nonexistent when she writes, â€Å"Happiness is silent, or speaks equivocally for friends” (ln 1). All of Smith’s life was filled with misery. This poem is about how she n ever knew the feeling of happiness. She was oblivious(predicate) of how to find happiness because of all the prejudicious experiences in her life that led to such despai ring thoughts and emotions. â€Å"Grief is explicit and her poem never ends” (ln 3). Smith indicates that she has known this feeling since she was a young girl, which, continued end-to-end her life.Undergoing these difficult times throughout her life led Stevie Smith to develop a prejudicial view of the world, which she exemplified in her poetry. Stevie Smith’s father owned his own business as a transport agent. When she was three years old his business, as well as her parents’ marriage, was unsuccessful (Huk 23). As a result, Smith’s father left home and ran away to sea becoming a ship’s purser. She rarely saw her father and when he visited she would often ignore him. She resented the fact that he left and deserted their family.Stevie Smith and her sister never forgave him and even refused to attend his funeral in 1949. Additionally, Smith’s Aunt enjoin negativity in her life. After Smith’s mother passed away, Smith and her sist er lived with their Aunt. When Stevie Smith started to write her Aunt brush off her works, calling them as unnecessary. Stevie portrays her feelings of neglect in her famous poem, â€Å" non Waving But Drowning. ” This poem is about a man who is stranded out at sea. As he is thrashing in the seas, he is distressed severe to get the direction from the bystanders on shore.They bet he is wafture â€Å"Hello”, when he is actually attempting to get their concern. â€Å"Nobody heard him, the dead man” (ln 1). The the great unwashed on shore can be seen as Smith’s Father and Aunt, while Stevie Smith is the man stranded at sea. They both drop and ignored Stevie, either by abandoning her family or insulting her work. â€Å"Oh, no no no, it was in any case cold always” (ln 9). This line indicates the desolation of Smith’s life ascribable to the constant feeling of rejection, from the fleeing of her father and her Aunt doubting her writing ca pabilities. Stevie Smith grew up during both World War I and World War II (Severin 49).After World War II Smith believed that women suffered in handed-down marriages because they often experienced bolshie of their independence and energy. In her poem â€Å"I Remember” the speaker is an elderly man. He is with his bride on their wedding night while having flashbacks of the World War II. â€Å"Harry, do they ever collide? I do not think it has ever happened” (ln 7 and 8). Smith is pointing out the disappointment of women returning to their conventional gender roles during the post war periods. When the charwoman asks about the planes colliding, Stevie Smith is referring to the gender roles of men and woman.She is asking if the roles of women and men overlap? She also indicates that these women will inevitably return to their pre-war traditional role as a yielding woman and essentially return to macrocosm unhappy. Stevie Smith has faced various negative experiences and emotions from a very early age. Stevie Smith often wrote about death, neglect and war as shown in three of her poems, â€Å"Happiness,” â€Å"not Waving But Drowning,” and â€Å"I Remember. ” Being presented with a chronic disease, abandonment, death, and feelings of neglect, contributed to Stevie Smith’s negative view of the world.However, Smith prime hope and relief from her depressive mind through the means of writing poetry. Smith wrote not only for the enjoyment of her readers, but more importantly to cope with her adverse life experiences. She used writing as a way to ease of the pain of these events. Stevie Smith blended real life experiences with events that happened nearly the world to create her moving works of literature. Works Cited Barbera, Jack, and William McBrien. Stevie: A Biography of Stevie Smith. capital of the United Kingdom: Heinemann, 1985. Print. â€Å"Biography of Stevie Smith. ” Poem Hunter. Web. 8 Apr. 2012. lt;http ://www. poemhunter. com/stevie-smith/ recital/>. â€Å"Happiness. ” Best Poems. Web. 05 Apr. 2012. <http://www. best-poems. net/stevie_smith/poem-18829. html>. This poem by Stevie Smith compares happiness and grief. This is a short poem, completed in one stanza. Smith expresses happiness as a quiet, illusionary emotion instead of earthshaking and exciting. She explains that happiness is silent, misleading and deceptive. She describes grief as precise, straightforward and unlike happiness, swift without delay. â€Å"I Remember. ” Best Poems. Web. 05 Apr. 2012. <http://www. est-poems. net/stevie_smith/poem-18839. html>. This poem written by the famous English poet and novelist, Stevie Smith is about a war veteran who is having flashbacks of World War ll. An elderly man is the speaker talking about his experiences in the war on the night of his wedding. His bride was a young woman who had tebibyte and was asking him questions about the war. It seemed that she was asking the questions because she was slipping away and will soon pass. Abcarian, Richard, Marvin Klotz, and Samuel Cohen, eds. lit: The Human Experience. 10th ed.New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2010. Print. The poem â€Å"Not Waving But Drowning” by Stevie Smith told in the third person. It is about a man who is distressed and unattended by his friends. He is trying to gain their attention by waving his hands but the people at shore think he is just waving hello. This poem can be interpreted both metaphoricly and literally. In the literal experience he was waving his hands trying to get attention and form the people on shore it looks like he’s saying hi. In the metaphorical sense, the man suffered from being ignored and neglected by his friends.Huk, Romana. Stevie Smith: Between the Lines. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Print. In this book Romana Huk expresses the different contributions that Stevie Smith has do to fem inist literary modernism. Huk describes how Smith encourage women’s studies by examining the past and revising them in modern times. This book offers a new approach to go about analyzing Smith’s works by analyzing certain poems and novels that were either forgotten about or written long ago. Severin, Laura. Stevie Smiths broad Antics.Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, 1997. Print. This book analyzes the relationship betwixt Stevie Smith’s writing and illustrations and twentieth coke historical events. She uses all the works of Stevie Smith to join the idea of femininity and the bourgeois period f World War ll. Severin gives reasons for cultural historians and feminists to appreciate the works of Smith in a sense where all of her poems, novels and illustrations are taken from events that happened around the world. Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton ;, 1989. Print.This book examines the relationship between Steve Smith†™s life and her writing, including both her novels and poems. Frances Spalding focuses on Smith’s narrative and distinct style. She looks at the connections between Smith’s devastating life and her works. Spalding adds new and original interpretations based on new information. â€Å"Stevie Smith. ” Poetry Archive. Penguin. Web. ;http://www. poetryarchive. org/poetryarchive/singlePoet. do? poetId=7088. â€Å"Stevie Smith. ” The Academy of American Poets. The Academy of American Poets. Web. ;http://www. poets. org/poet. php/prmPID/283;.\r\n'