Robert Penn Warren(1905-1989) is one of twentieth-century America's most distinguished men of letters.Honored with three Pulitzer Prizes,Warren is the only writer who has been a Pulitzer Prize winner in two different genres-poetry and fiction.In 1986,Warren was crowned as the first American Poet Laureate.Though he is a Renaissance man of letters in many genres,the central thrust of Warren's literary career lies in the field of poetry.Love and knowledge are the two themes which penetrate his sixty years' poetic career.Based on textual analysis,applying the method of close reading,the present study intends to explore the sound patterning,metaphor,tension and the technical devices which reinforce the theme of love and knowledge in the poem of the Bearded Oaks.
