Along with the positive aspects of American life, his works also represent the plight of black Americans. These also contemplate the value of art in such times. Along with that, English classics added to his precision.
It is his voices and techniques that make him distinct from his fellow poets. Robert Hayden was born Asa Bundy Sheffey, and when he was taken into the neighbor’s foster home, he was addressed as Robert and took on his foster father William Hayden’s surname. Imagination and actual happenings in history are allied together in a manner that both of them are incomplete without each other. In truth, he was both and gave voice to both thoughts.
(Photo: US National Baha'i Archives)Poetry and the literary arts hold special significance in the Baha’i writings. You may want to read Robert Hayden In Verse by Derik Smith.Dearest Robert in Heaven, that is also the story of me, an orphan child in Switzerland! There are traces of epic miniature, but a thorough study shows that this epic is different from the traditional epic.
He studies the language and myths like that of an unfamiliar culture.
After his birth, he was taken by a neighbor family and raised by them. His poetic integrity was absolute and invariably courageous. Like his influencer W. B. Yeats, he was also a religious poet. He had problems; was slightstatured and nearsighted, and for this reason, he was often ostracized by his fellows. He enrolled in the University of Michigan in 1941.
He represents his race’s struggle for his nation, blacks, who were oppressed. After finishing school Hayden did not have enough funds to pursue higher education, but a social worker helped him obtain a scholarship to attend a university, and this was the starting point which allowed him to embark on his career as a poet and academic.Robert became a Baha’i in 1943, having been taught about the Baha’i Faith by … all effort and exertion put forth by man from the fullness of his heart is worship, if it is prompted by the highest motives and the will to do service to humanity.Hayden also exemplified the Baha’i counsel to achieve excellence in all things, which Baha’u’llah expressed in these words:Strain every nerve to acquire both inner and outer perfections, for the fruit of the human tree hath ever been and will ever be perfections both within and without.
For this reason, he spent his time in seclusion and read literature, developing both eye and ear for literature. This metaphor is borrowed from stars, and thus it completes the circle of the universe.
In , Hayden has tried to reconcile Christianity and slave-trade. His life with his foster parents was tumultuous with frequent bouts of verbal and physical violence.
His characters are drawn from stark vividness, and through this use, he changes the form of commonplaces of history and the cardinal points. Hayden's parents separated soon after his birth and he became the foster child of Sue Ellen Westerfield and William Hayden. In his poetry, the extraordinary passages’ dispassionate tonality stems from his poetic reticence.He has formed a resistant force against ecstatic hyperboles of Hart Crane and hyperbolic ironies of Eliot through understatement or rhetoric of litotes.
He worked in the Library of Congress as a poetry consultant. Genealogy profile for Robert Hayden Robert Hayden (1861 - 1927) - Genealogy Genealogy for Robert Hayden (1861 - 1927) family tree on Geni, with over 190 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. Jay Wright, Robert Hayden, Michael Harper’s several poems are a response to this epilogue, laying the foundation of works interconnected with this work. Though the former work lacks the intricacy that the later work has.Hayden was called people’s poet because of his easily comprehensible language and representation of the common sentiment. Robert Hayden, born Asa Bundy Sheffey in Detroit, Michigan, was raised in a slum called Paradise Valley. He also recognizes the limitations of art. Hayden is the most authentic and original of his generation of poets. Some epic conventions in this work are explicitly inverted while others are subtly changed. His parents were Asa and Ruth Sheffey, and they had separated before he was born. Born Asa Bundy Sheffey into a poor family, Robert Hayden’s parents left him to be raised by foster parents. This is because I believe any descriptive language I could try and employ would pale in comparison to the poetry itself. He left this institute before completing the degree leaving one credit short. He gives the perception of artistic work as an incarnation, and this becomes a belief for an artist like faith for a religiously faithful.He suggests the addition of the lost dimension of life which can never be achieved in real life, except art which can realize it in memory. There are negative definitions, images of shelter, time, and place.
These inversions have far-reaching thematic impacts. When in the 1960s, the black movement was blooming, he isolated himself from it and made his own identity.
He creates a relationship between material and spiritual, and this makes him a part of the tradition led by Emerson.