How "First Love" Is Represented By Different Artists

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about it. It probably provides
them with a good topic to start writing about in the first place. The lack of
realization seems to be a powerful motivator in the lives of these artists. All
of the artists in the readings seem to have gone through a period of lack of
realization before wising up to what their experiences with their first loves
meant. They probably did not know that their first loves were their first loves
until later in their lives. In the case of Robert Hayden and Theodore Roethke,
it took them their whole adolescent years to realize who their first loves were.
But no matter how long or how they realized it, most of the artists were
impacted greatly by their first loves or they would not devote their writing to
it.
When artists realize their first loves differs greatly also. Some
realize very quickly who, or what their first loves are, and some do not realize
for a very long time. In A.E. Houseman's "When I Was One and Twenty," Houseman
writes about his ignorance ...

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