An Analysis of "Samurai Song" by Robert Pinsky
Biography: Robert Pinsky was born on October 20, 1940 in Long Branch, New Jersey. He is a poet, essayist, translator, teacher, and speaker. However, before Robert Pinsky was well known, he attended Long Branch High School. From there he went on to study at Rutgers University and earned his B.A. However, he did not finish his studies there. Stanford University is where he earned his M.A and Ph. D in creative writing ("Paul Valery"). In 1961, Robert Pinsky and Ellen Jane Bailey got married. Ellen Pinsky became a clinical psychologist and Robert Pinsky began teaching at Wellesley College. From Wellesley he went on to teach at the University of California. Currently he resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts and teaches a graduate writing program at Boston University. (poets.org) His influences are his professors from Rutgers University, Francis Fergusson and Paul Fossel, and his professor from Stanford Unive...