6.1 Stephen Crane’s Poetry
Stephen Cranes was raised in a Methodist home. This was the idea that man had significance in the universe. We all have free will and God is good. Like many kids he grew up to attack these ideas with humor and savage irony. He planed on going to the military but went to college instead. He became a free lance journalist and began to publish poems in 1895. Crane was known for his use of irony and his christen symbolist. Crane wrote many novels as well as poems and is known today for his novel” The Open Book” After reading several poems by Crane it seems that his has somewhat a bitter view of the world. He concentrates on the profound conflict man has with himself and God. It seems that writers write about issues that they have endured at some point in their life and maybe that’s why Crane seems to struggle with religion. The poem “In the Desert” made me think of a bitter person, so bitter his heart had no love at all. But he liked it because it was his heart therefore he would be the only one that knew why he was bitter. Maybe he wasn’t bitter maybe he really loved himself. I feel that if the poems were named I could understand them better, however: I also think that’s why some poet’s don’t name their work; they want to be the only one that understands their work. Another poem I thought was really deep was “A Man Said to the Universe”. The man spoke to the universe which replied the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation. So the universe had no sense of obligation to acknowledge him. Like the book stated Crane was the master of irony, which I see him as being bitter and sarcastic and he accomplished this not by talking to people but through his poetry. I see him as a very distant person that suppressed his feelings on the outside. But when he wrote his exploded with what he wanted to accomplish. Sarcasm isn’t all negative it can bring quite a few laughs. Much like Cranes work
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