The Vinegar Man.ppt

The Vinegar Man ----By Group7 Give a brief biography of poet. Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young was an American author and playwright who wrote under her maiden name Ruth Comfort Mitchell ,as well as Mrs.Sanborn Young.She was born in San Francisco,California and spent summers in the of Los Gatos,where her parents and grandparents had summer homes.At the age of fourteen,her first poem was published in the newspaper,thus launching her literary career. In 1914,her literary friends in San Francisco introduced her to Sanborn Young,who had recently sold his business and was traveling.The couple were married in October 1914 and moved to New York City. She wrote nowels,poems,short stories and plays. Both the Youngs were involved in Republican politics.Ruth served as Republican National Committeewoman ,national and state president of Pro-America. In february 1954,Ruth was found dead in the bathtub. The situation and literary trends in America at that time As the wounds of the Civil War slowly healed,many Americans became discontented with the growing materialism of society in the United States.Regional writers began to drop their narrow provincial focus, while still using realistic descriptions of everyday life. As they concentrated increasingly upon the grimmer aspects of reality and a deterministic view of life,they were called naturalists. Other writers were quietly exploring the fate of the individual. They drew their readers close to their characters mental and emotional processes. The setting of the poem The Vinegar Man lives in the tumble-down shed by the Hounted House.And its a murky place which is mixed with deep,sticky spiders and empty cans.He sells the vinegar for a living.Because the Vinegar Man is old,poor and a little queer,children taunt him. When he was young,he was a man who was sensitive,passionate and meticulous.The person who finds the dead Vinegar Man thinks the Vinegar Man died when he tore his valentine. Vocabulary words for sele