There are two writers famous for their "notes" in the world. One is the British poet Keats, who is as famous as Shelley and Byron, and the other is the famous American novelist Jack London in the 20th century. . One of them uses paper strips as a medium for learning knowledge, and the other uses paper strips to record his creative inspiration at any time. The small note has become an indispensable and important tool in their literary career. , Keats was born in London at the end of the 18th century and is one of the outstanding writers of English poetry. Due to family difficulties, Keats left school to study medicine before he was 16 years old. In 1816, he met famous poets such as Lee Hunter and Shelley. Under their influence, he fell in love with literature. Later, he abandoned medicine to pursue literature and embarked on the path of poetry creation. Keats only lived 25 years old, but the poems he left behind are well-known in the world. He is considered to perfectly embody the characteristics of Western Romantic poetry and is praised as an outstanding representative of the European Romantic movement. , However, Keats had a habit of writing short poems. Almost every poem was written on a slip of paper that came to hand. After writing, he either used it as a bookmark or put it aside. One morning in the spring of 1819, a nightingale built a nest outside the house. Keats felt unprecedented peace and continuous joy from its song. He got up from the breakfast table, moved his chair to the lawn under a plum tree, and sat there for two or three hours. When he returned to the house, his friend Charles Armitage Brown saw several notes in his hand, and after entering the house he quietly pressed them under the book. Brown quickly inquired and found out that these four or five notes contained poems about the feelings of the nightingale's call. Keats's handwriting was difficult to read, so Brown managed to get Keats's help and copy the poem. "Ode to a Nightingale" - a famous poem that has fascinated millions of people - was born. Subsequently, Brown immediately set out to find the surviving notes, re-transcribe them, and store them together. From then on, Keats allowed Brown to copy his poems from the scattered slips of paper. In this way, although he himself didn't care much about the poems he wrote, many popular short poems were handed down because of the help of a good friend. , Another writer, Jack London’s note is even more interesting. Jack London was born in San Francisco in 1876. He came from "the impoverished lower class, which accounts for one-tenth of the country's population". He is a famous realist writer in the United States and is known as the "father of American proletarian literature". , Anyone who has been to Jack London's home will find it strange: there are all kinds of small notes posted on the curtains, clothes hangers, cupboards, bedside, mirrors, walls...everywhere. People who came to his room thought it was some special decoration. In fact, these little notes are not blank. It is filled with all kinds of information he collected. Jack London worked in a laundry workshop and was exhausted every day. He had no time and energy to study, and no opportunity to study systematically. In order to master cultural knowledge and practice writing, he studied diligently against time. He wrote new words on slips of paper and stuck them in the slit of the dressing table mirror so that he could recite them when shaving and dressing in the morning; he wrote strings of words on slips of paper and hung them with pins. on the clothesline so that he could see the new words when he looked up or across the room; he carried strips of paper with lines of words in each of his pockets, which he would read when he went to the library or on his way out. Read them aloud, even silently before eating or going to bed. He also carried a stack of notes with him to write down what he saw and heard while working: descriptions of scenery, sketches of characters, wonderful language, snippets of conversations, touching stories, etc. Over time, he not only learned culture, but also accumulated a large amount of vocabulary, and established a "reference reading room" of paper notes to store writing materials. These materials were not used up until his death. , Because he has been taking advantage of every opportunity to learn writing, among American writers, Jack London can be said to be prolific. In his 16-year creative career, he published more than 50 works, and has won prestige in the American literary world with his creative strength. . What is particularly admirable is that he only received some formal education indirectly. As a world-renowned writer, he achieved success through self-study through this original learning method.
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