How "First Love" Is Represented By Different Artists

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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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