Time

David Gomrick

Armstrong

Language Arts 3

16 February 2009

Time

The poem Time ' is a classic example of the way that modernism and the changing times in the early to mid twentieth century affected literary works . During this time period there was much reform and injustices in the world , including WWII and Mistral 's home countries reform (Ratnikas . The poem is also affected by the writer 's Roman Catholic religion and the conflicts about new sources of religion including Evangelical (Haggett . This causes use of new and old literary

br devices that change this poem and make it a whole new way to look at literature (Kinsella . Some may find this a blasphemous way of infringing upon pre-modernism literature , but I think it is the beginning of a new and exciting literary era

Gabriela Mistral 's birth name was Lucila Godoy Alcayaga (Biography . At the age of sixteen she moved to La Cantera to take a job and fell in love with a railroad worker (Bois . The relationship didn 't last and two years later the young man committed suicide (Bois . In 1912 she got her teaching degree and moved to Santiago where she was soon able to publish some of her poems in local periodicals (Bois . In 1923 , Mistral was awarded the title Teacher of the Nation ' by her home country of Chile (Biography . She was the first Latin American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (Frenz . Mistral served as a consult for her home country of Chile , but had to retire after almost twenty years (Biography . Because of poor health she had to relocate to her home in New York . She died from cancer on January 10 , 1957 at sixty-seven (Bois

During the time of this poem Chile was dealing with World War II and massive earthquakes . In 1932 Chile signed am extradition treaty with Peru . This made it possible for Chilean fugitives to be taken back from Peru for trial , and vice versa (Country . In 1939 around thirty thousand people were killed during a magnitude 8 .3 earthquake (Ratnikas . This was not the first time that an earthquake had killed thousands in Chile in 1906 almost twenty thousand were killed by a magnitude 8 .6 earthquake (Ratnikas . In 1942 Chile broke contact with Germany and Japan (Ratnikas . Finally near the end of the war Chile declared a war with Germany (Ratnikas . Chile joined the League of Nations along with many countries to help avoid future war and settle conflicts without violence . This was a big step for Chile and obviously a good one because the League of Nations is still running strong today

The religion and culture in Chile was Roman Catholic , with a small amount of evangelical (CIA . The Roman Catholic Religion is based on the premise that all of the subjects of god should be right and follow the directions of the Pope (Pew . They also believed that if you were a sinner and you did not confess to God that you would go...