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Aiken’s poetry is characterized by its exploration of psychological states, often employing dreamlike imagery and a stream-of-consciousness style. His poems delve into themes of alienation, identity, and the human condition.
Learn about the life and work of Conrad Aiken, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who explored psychological themes and wrote under a pseudonym. Read some of his poems, such as \"The Lost Traveller\" and \"The House of Dust\".
The Vampire. Conrad Aiken. 1899 –. 1973. She rose among us where we lay. She wept, we put our work away. She chilled our laughter, stilled our play; And spread a silence there. And darkness shot across the sky, And once, and twice, we heard her cry; And saw her lift white hands on high. And toss her troubled hair.
Named Poetry Consultant (now U.S. Poet Laureate) of the Library of Congress from 1950 to 1952, Aiken earned numerous prestigious writing honors, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1930 for Selected Poems, the 1954 National Book Award for Collected Poems, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the National Institute of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry ...
A poem that traces the speaker's memories from childhood to old age, from the South to the North, from the past to the present. The poem uses vivid imagery and contrasts to evoke the changes and losses of time and place, and the enduring power of Shakspere's voice.
Aiken's poem expresses his longing for a different place and climate, where he can find water, mountains, birds, and snow. He compares himself to a spider, who will spin a web and die in the arid and dusty land.
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1899 –. 1973. Read poems by this poet. Conrad Potter Aiken was born in Savannah, Georgia, on August 5, 1889. When he was a small boy, his father killed his mother and committed suicide himself, a tragedy that had a profound impact on Aiken’s development.
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