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 …showed first 75 words of 1734 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1734 total…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.