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The Flight is likely associated with the path where someone has to choose. This is an allegorical poem and probably refers to the change of career by the poet himself, Lloyd Mifflin. In this poem, he is asking for the heavenly beings above the clouds and the stars, it is as if he is talking with an angel in his wonderful dream. The angel then guides him into the choice that he has to make and surprisingly he was successful for it. Lloyd Mifflin first learned art study from his father and furthermore at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, also advanced into Germany. He then supposed that the paint exhausts were making him ill, thus he set his sights on creating poetry. He produced more than 500 sonnets in time. The Flight is comprised from The Golden Treasury or American Songs and Lyrics. Lloyd Mifflin was a writer, poet, and artist from Columbia, Pa. He was born to Elibeth A. and J. Houston Mifflin, a painter and composer of librettos. He studied in district schools, as the Washington Classical Institute, and enrolled art in a foreign country in Germany and Italy. Sensitive well-being forced him to leave art as a career and to concentrate on authorship. He made innumerable unforgettable sonnets and poems on American sceneries and ancient history. Lloyd Mifflin was born and grew up in Pennsylvania, learned painting in Germany and Italy. Due to his poor health condition, he devoted himself to writing poetry, achieving the title of “America’s sonneteer.” His father encouraged him to contemplate for himself and begin realizing many of his own dreams, who also instructed him to paint. He enrolled in Philadelphia with Thomas Moran, who was his educator and who would in the long run communicated the admiration of massifs with Lloyd. They also agreed on studying J.M.W. Turner scenery paintings as one.
Product ID: 9781776729661
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