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Ellen Bryant Voigt
Ellen Bryant Voigt’s Life
An American poet, Ellen Bryant Voigt was born in and brought up on a ranch in Virginia, in the United States of America. She belonged to a family of Southern Baptists, who lived in the foothills of the Blue Ridge, Georgia.
Her father, Lloyd Gilmore Bryant, was a farmer by profession and her mother, Missouri Yeats Bryant, was a schoolteacher.
Voigt’s core concerns both in her life and work were family experiences coupled with fate and will, choice and work, determination and natural order of the farm life.
As far as her artistic spirit is concerned, she was influenced by music because she took a keen interest in melodies.
Ellen Bryant Voigt was born and raised on a farm in Virginia and moved to Vermont in 1969.She also got rigorous training in playing piano, which was the reason that she praised her musical training. Her piano training stimulated her artistic creativity in her poetry. It not only determined her impulse for order in everything she created, it also gave her a love of seclusion, as she discovered that her life