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  ||> ==Biography== Robert Penn Warren was born in Guthrie, Kentucky on April 24, 1905. He grew up in a still predominantly confederate south. In 1920, at the age of 15, he lost sight in one eye and was forced to give up his career as a naval officer. Afterwards he enrolled at Vanderbilt University and began his career as a poet. After he graduated from Vanderbilt, he pursued graduate study at the University of California and Yale University and in 1928 entered Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Then in 1930, he returned from England with a degree in English Literature and he married Emma Brescia. He then became an English teacher at Southwestern College in Memphis, Tennessee. Three years later, he moved to Louisiana and became a teacher at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge. In 1938, he and Cleanth Brooks, a colleague at Louisiana State University, published a textbook called "//Understanding Poetry".// In 1947, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his book called "//All the King's Men//". Robert Penn Warren continued writing poems, but they became less formal and more expansive. His poems won many awards, including the Sidney Hillman Award, the Edna St. Vincent Millay Memorial Award, the National Book Award, and a second Pulitzer Prize. In 1979 he earned a third Pulitzer Prize, this time for his book entitled //"Now and Then: Poems".// He worked as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1972 until 1988, and was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in 1981. On February 26, 1986, Warren was named the first U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. On September 15, 1989, he died of unknown causes. ||
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 Poetry links
==**[|A Way to Love God]** == ==[|Evening Hawk] == ==**[|Mortal Limit]** == ==[|Tell Me a Story] ==

Robert Penn Warren's House** ||
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Explication
[|Evening Hawk] Explication of "Evening Hawk"

Robert Penn Warren's poem [|"Evening Hawk"] is about a hawk who flies everywhere and sees many things. He has a lot of wisdom and has been alive for a long time, as said in "His wisdom is ancient, too, and immense". The poem is about how the hawk is not bound by the trivial problems here in our society and that it can be free of our hardships in the sky. The poem expresses this freedom in the phrase "wings dipping through, Geometries and orchids that the sunset builds" showing that the hawk is free from problems and can soar and wheel as much as it pleases. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">