Theodore Roethke: This is about the basic life story and the meaning behind this dramatically influential American poet's works. It's AP English vocabulary, change as needed.

A Rose in a Dark Time: Theodore Roethke Throughout his entire life, a fervent poet writes his personal feelings and interpretations in the form of symbols: the lifeblood of the metaphor. Often these words are written in a form of expression not usually associated with normal everyday thought, but that of a profoundness that evokes only the highest level of emotion. In the early twentieth century America was introduced to the poetry of Theodore Huebner …

…a traditional civilized sense when criticizing them, rather than looking at the actual humanistic foundations of error. As the winner of a Pulitzer prize as well as the admiration of millions Roethke dramatically altered the course of American poetry and was a central player in the development of modern verse. Gothic, sarcastic, witty, gloomy, bright, the list goes on of all the various themes conveyed from a man that claimed he had no emotional standing.