California Literature

Robinson Jeffers ·       Born in Pennsylvania ·       Occidental college ·       Enrolled in the university of Southern California 1905 ·       Jeffers is a voice of nature Continent’s End ·       Ocean maternal characteristics ·       Sea is the source of life ·       The short lyrics tells the meaning of human life and its correlation to the sea. It focuses on the more ancient source of both human life and the ocean. Oceanic life-forms into the mindset and assurance of human kind. ·       The sea is destructive as well To the Stone Cutters ·       A free verse ·       Contemplation of the future ·       The tone is dark and discouraging ·       Poets and stone cutter’s carve their legacy onto stones, so they are never forgotten ·       Anyone can be a stone-cutter ·       Oblivion ·       The poem shows the importance of being remembered and known Carmel Point ·       Description of scenery ·       It speaks about the beauty of things be

Anonymous Chinese Immigrants The first poem speaks on the journeys of travelers. It refers to the hundred poems on the wall as their messages left behind. It speaks about life and all its value but how one is to know their future or what is to come. It questions why people complain when they are detained because years ago, those who were detained may the biggest heroes. I assume they poem is speaking about immigration and how they fought their way through all obstacles and made the best of it for themselves.  The second poem speaks about time. By the sounds of it, they aren’t old but time has gone by quickly. It states that time and life is the only thing that can’t be taken or detained. It’s motto: to live life without questioning. The third poem is a bit dark. It seems to talk about death. It has a very bitter and even angry tone. The mention of hell means that man was not a good man.  The fourth poem speaks within the new year. It explains the decoration and celebra

Yone Noguchi was born in Nagoya, Japan. He studied Haiku and Zen Buddhism, English philosophy and poetry at a university in Tokyo. He later moved to California. He was the first literary figure in two cultures to arrive in California. The short story “Some Stories of My Western Life” is an creative nonfiction of Yone Noguchi’s life as he left his homeland to go to California.  Yone Noguchi tells the story of his journey to California. In the beginning of the story Noguchi says that his friends wished him godspeed and how he became sad his eldest brother came to say goodbye to him from Yokohama. In the story, Noguchi shares his excitement when he sees “a vastness of water”. This one particular experience, the reader finds itself returning to a younger time of Noguchi’s life. He speaks of his first fishing party on the river Kiso, many years ago and how he got sick by the motion of the water. Here is when the reader finds out of Noguchi’s dislike of the sea. This is interesting to kno

Yone Noguchi ·       Born: Nagoya, Japan ·       Studied: Haiku and Zen Buddhism, English philosophy and poetry at a university in Tokyo. ·       First literary figure in two cultures to arrive in California. ·       A major influence in California after a few years. “Some Stories of My Western Life” ·       A autobiography; creative nonfiction ·       Yone Noguchi tells the story of his journey to California. In the beginning of the story Noguchi says that his friends wished him godspeed and how he became sad his eldest brother came to say goodbye to him from Yokohama. He speaks about being on a steamer and the day it reached San Francisco.  ·       Noguchi is moving from one country to another. While reading the story, the reader becomes engulfed in multiple emotions.  ·       How does Noguchi show his emotions throughout the story? ·       Beauty of two cultures

I googled the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Guadalupe_Hidalgo ) and found some interesting information. It was said that the treaty was made to form peace, friendship, limits and settlements between the United States and Mexico. It was signed on February 2, 1848. It was said that treaty (Article XI) was important to Mexico because it prevented raids by Indians into Mexico with the help of the US; however, in 1853, concluding the Gadsden Purchase - the Treaty of Mesilla had Article XI annulled. The Gadsden Purchase ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsden_Purchase ) was an agreement between the US and Mexico that was finalized in 1854 that said the US would agree to pay Mexico for a square mile portion of Mexico. The US will then have land necessary for the southern transcontinental railroad. The transcontinental railroad ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcontinental_railroad ) crossed the continental land mass. 

George Sterling ·        George Sterling  (December 1, 1869 – November 17, 1926) was an American  poet  and  playwright  based in  California  who, during his lifetime, was celebrated on the Pacific coast as one of the great American poets, although he never gained equivalent success in the rest of the United States. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sterling ) ·        Beyond the Breakers o    Nature o    The poem speaks about nature and how it plays a role in the area wear the narrator lives. It speaks of the wind that makes its way from the West. o    It is a change of weather and it illustrates each change and how it either benefits or affects the area.  o    The poem uses a lot of imagery. o    The narrator is riding through these weather changes. o    Nurture vs Nature o    Where is the narrator heading?

William Nauns Ricks ·        Ricks was born in Wytheville, Virginia, on September 6, 1876, and came to California in 1889. An African-American veteran of the Spanish Civil War, Ricks worked at the information desk in the lobby of California Packing Corporation, but his chief occupation and interest was writing. Little is known about him, other than his activities as documented in his personal papers. Ricks was a member of several local writing organizations, active in his church, and frequently attended art, lecture, theater, and musical programs and events in the Bay Area. ( https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf887006m4/entire_text/ ) ·        The Coming Night (From the Berkeley Hills) o    Nature o    Colorful scenery o    The poem speaks of the area in which the narrator lives in. He speaks of the multiple way’s nature calms the place. How the trees make way for the wind to blow gently over the grass and how the sun hangs and floats its rays on the top of the calm

In this weeks reading, I found myself extremely interested in John Rollin Ridge. I decided to start the search with his name. My first search led me to his history ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rollin_Ridge ). I found that his Cherokee name is: Cheesquatalawny, or Yellow Bird. He was a part of the Cherokee Nation. This led me to look into the Cherokee Nation. I clicked on the internal link ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_Nation_(1794–1907) ) which explained that the Cherokee Nation ran from 1794-1907. It was a legal autonomous, tribal government in North America. It also spoke about the Cherokee-American wars. So my last internal link ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee–American_wars ) explained that the Cherokee-American wars, also known as Chickamauga Wars, were a series of back-to-forth raids, ambushes and campaigns in the Old Southwest from 1776-1795 and that most events took place in the Upper South. 

Samuel McDuffie English 205 Professor Joellen Hiltbrand March 3, 2010 Two Different Views on Love “The Luck of Roaring Camp” and Self Reliance” tell the story of different times and context. The short story of “The Luck of Roaring Camp” by Francis Bret Harte and “Self-Reliance” By James Whitfield are different themes and context but each tells a story of a certain things you need to make the most out of. Although they are two different genres and speak of two different telling’s, they both identify the meaning of love, hope and purity through harsh times.  Francis Bret Harte was an American short-story writer and poet who wrote short fiction featuring miners, gamblers and other figures during the California Gold Rush. He wrote the short story “The Luck of Roaring Camp”. The short story speaks of a woman named Cherokee Sal who is the only woman in the camp. She has gone into a difficult labor and once the child is born, Sal dies after, leaving the boy in the hands of the miners