How could one show such of a dark mood while writing a poem? Denise Levertov gives perfect examples of this dark mood as she takes the readers of her poem through the journey of her life and shows what she had gone through as a teen all the way until her death. Denise is one to show how she is feeling through her writings and bring the reader on an emotional rollercoaster as they read her pieces. This is a great strength to have as a writer and this is what makes her such a unique poet. Denise was born and raised in England, but moved to the United States when she was twenty-five years old, after marrying American writer Mitchell Goodman, as she began to establish her writing skills which were eventually known around the world. Early in her career of writing, it was noticed by critics and may of her colleagues, the her writing had shown the influences on big writers such as William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, and even Wallace Stevens. Jean Gould …show more content…
Looking at what she had gone through as a teen and into her early adult years is a perfect example of how she is so experienced and skilled. Denise had been big into poetry at such a young age that she knew many style techniques when it came to her own writing. Levertov demonstrated what was called “Romanticism” in fact she was called the “baby of the new romanticism.” Romanticism is a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century, characterized chiefly by a reaction against neoclassicism and an emphasis on the imagination and emotions, and marked especially in English literature by sensibility and the use of autobiographical material, an exaltation of the primitive and the common man, an appreciation of external nature, an interest in the remote, a predilection for melancholy, and the use in poetry of older verse forms.