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Fleas
417 wordsMy copy of the poem notes that 'Fleas were a popular subject for jocose [humorous] and amatory [love] poetry in all countries at the Renaissance'. Their popularity stems from an event that happened in a literary salon (a place where poets and others came to recite poetry and converse). The salon was run by two ladies, and on on occasion a flea happened to land upon one lady's breast. The poets were amazed at the creature's audacity, and were inspired to write poetry about the beast. It soon beca...
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Williams's Work
365 wordsWilliam Carlos Williams (1883-1963), was an American poet, novelist, and physician, who wrote in distinctly American speech about everyday situations. He began writing poetry while a student at Horace Mann High School, at which time he made the decision to become both a writer and a doctor. Williams combined his focus on the ordinary with attempts to connect his reader as closely as possible to the subjects of poems. His poetic experiments had a strong literary influence and inspired such later ...
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Survey Of The Work Of Negro Poets
1,337 wordsCounter Cullen It is now five years since James Weldon Johnson edited with a brilliant essay on "The Negro's Creative Genius" The Book of American Negro Poetry, four years since the publication of Robert T. Kerlin's Negro Poets and Their Poems, and three years since from the Trinity College Press in Durham, North Carolina, came An Anthology of Verse by American Negroes, edited by Newman Ivey White and Walter Clinton Jackson. [... ] [T] here would be scant reason for the assembling and publicatio...
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Mrs Tilcher Class Carol Ann Duffy
646 wordsIn the poems Stealing and Mrs Tilcher's Class Carol Ann Duffy tells us about life through different people's eyes. In both her poems she uses simple words and metaphors to express her views. Stealing shows us how boring life could be without friends. The observation here is that she motivates people against antisocial behavior. In Mrs Tilcher Class Carol Ann Duffy illustrates the difference stages of life in a child. 'Stealing is a poem in the form of a persona. It depicts a lonely life without ...
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Poetry Claude McKay
1,349 wordsPoetry- Claude McKay "If We Must Die" One of the most influential writers of the Harlem Renaissance was Jamaican born Claude McKay, who was a political activist, a novelist, an essayist and a poet. Claude McKay was aware of how to keep his name consistently in mainstream culture by writing for that audience. Although in McKay's arsenal he possessed powerful poems. The book that included such revolutionary poetry is Harlem Shadows. His 1922 book of poems, Harlem Shadows, Barros acknowledged that ...
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Speaker And The Whippoorwill
526 wordsWhip-poor-will explanation The poem, "Whip-poor-will" by Donald Hall is written beautifully with a sense of nature and family. Throughout this poem, Hall illustrates these natural occurrences, such as the "sandy ground", "the last light of June", and "a brown bird in the near-night, soaring over shed and woodshed to far dark fields". The bird in this instance is a whippoorwill, defined as a nocturnal nightjar of Eastern North America that uses loud, repetitive calls suggestive of its name. The w...
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Harlem Renaissance Poet
1,471 words... The Harlem Renaissance Poets consist of: James Weldon Johnson, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Jean (Eugene) Toomer, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, and Gwendolyn Brooks. These eight poets contributed to modern day poetry in three ways. One: they all wrote marvelous poems that inspired our poets of modern times. Two: they contributed to literature to let us know what went on in there times, and how much we now have changed. And last but not least they all have written poems tha...
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Longer Need Turf
1,229 words'Digging' is about a person looking out of a window at their Father digging, describing what he / she sees and then the poem goes on to describe what he / she feels. I believe that the narrative voice in the poem is in fact that of Seamus Heaney. There are a number of clues that lead me to this conclusion. The first and most obvious one is in the first line,' Between my finger and my thumb. ' The poet writes in the first person throughout the poem. He writes about his Father and his Grandfather ...
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Pain Of The Relationship Breakdown
1,419 wordsCompare and Contrast the ways in which the poet describes the breakdown if the relationship. Comment on the effectiveness of their verse-craft I chose to compare the poems: An Anniversary, by Vernon ScannelDismissal, by John Tripp A Winters Tale, by D.H. Lawrence In the poem 'An Anniversary'; the poet describes the relationship and it's breakdown as two leaves on a river, this is and example of 'Personification'. In contrast to this poem in the poem 'Dismissal'; Tripp describes the breakdown ver...
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Common Subject Between Black Poets And Rappers
1,519 wordsRap vs. Poetry Essay submitted by Vital Styles "When I first started rapping, me and a couple brothers would all sit around my place free styling while someone beat boxed. I even used to tell all the girls that I was a poet. They seemed to find it a little more touching than a rapper" (Prince Paul, The Source 16) The lyrics of rappers are very similar to the words of Black poets. It is argued as to wether or not rap is a viable form of poetry. Both discuss similar subjects, write in the same sty...
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Mumia's Lawsuit Against Npr
1,745 wordsAll Things Censored: The Poem NPR Doesn't Want You to Hear by Martin Espana Source: web I was an NPR poet. In particular, I was an All Things Considered poet. All Things Considered would occasionally broadcast my poems in conjunction with news stories. One producer even commissioned a New Year's poem from me. "Imagine the Angels of Bread" aired on January 2, 1994, in the same broadcast as the news of the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. But now I've been censored by All Things Considered and Natio...
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Olga Poems About My Sister
8,772 wordsDenise Levertov Andre: Prior to the sixties you suppressed the direct autobiographical allusions. But now you seem to be pulling in more actual facts. Would you say again this is related to movements in poetry, such as confessional poetry Levertov: I'm rather antagonistic on the whole to what is called confessional poetry which seems to exploit the private life. I've even felt that some young poets, students, feel that they have to make a suicide attempt, that they must spend some time in a ment...
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Resolution And Independence The Poem's Consciousness
1,373 wordsWordsworth did not write by using lofty, eloquent language, and great issues and personalities as subjects. This childlike quality was typical of Romanticism. Wordsworth's along with other poets such as Blake, Coleridge, Byron, Shelly and Keats were all poets of this historical period (1780 1830). During this period these poets tended to view the world through the eyes of children or tried to see the world in a childlike way. Children could be said to speak in simple un elaborated expressions an...
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Lyric Poet After The Troubadours
1,661 wordsCourtly Love, code of behavior that defined the relationship between aristocratic lovers in Western Europe during the Middle Ages. The Idea of courtly love developed among the higher classes of Europe during the late-1100's. The idea of courtly love was that a man passionately devoted himself to a lady who was married or engaged to another man. Because medieval marriages were made up of little more than business contracts, courtly love was dube d as the only true romance in the lives of many Eur...
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Strand's Selected Poems
1,099 wordsJay Paring Strand was born in Canada on Prince Edward Island. He studied at Antioch College, where he took a BA. He also received a BFA from Yale, where he studied painting. At the University of Iowa, he worked closely with poet Donald Justice, completing an MA in 1962. He spent a year in Italy on a Fulbright scholarship, and later taught at Iowa for three years. In 1965 he spent a year as Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Brazil, where he was deeply influenced by contemporary Latin Americ...
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Thomas Welsh Background
2,087 wordsDylan Thomas was born on October 14, 1914, in Upland, Swansea. His father, David John Thomas, received a degree at University College Aberystwyth and was valedictorian in English, he taught English at Swansea Grammar School. His father, quick tempered and intimidating had a beautiful, sonorous voice for reading aloud (which Dylan inherited). Florence Hannah Williams, Thomass mother, was a tailor before she was married. Thomas was a troublesome child. He stole money from his mothers purse, and li...
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Unknown Citizen By W.H. Auden
764 wordsW.H. Auden The Poet W.H. Auden was born in York in 1907. During his studies in school, he excelled in sciences and thought of being a mining engineer. He also started reading Freud and acting in school plays. In the winter of 1922, Auden published his first poem in the school magazine. Autumn of 1925, Auden enrolls in the Christ Church College, Oxford, where he studied the natural sciences as well as economics, politics and some philosophy. He was known as a teaching poet. "His poems and his ess...
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Connection Between Stevens And Kong
644 wordsForm: Four stanzas and a final couplet in irregular meter, un rhyming. Line-by-Line Analysis: This poem is in the form of a psychodrama in which the two figures of the title represent two aspects or faculties of the poet. It is, the situation suggests, the product of their tense interaction. It is structured upon a series of antitheses between Wallace Stevens and King Kong. 1-2: The meeting between the two antithetical images-King Kong and Wallace Stevens-occurs not simply in the juxtaposing of ...
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God In The Poems Of Herbert
1,524 wordsGeorge Herbert's brilliant ingenuity lies in the simplicity and sincerity of his poems. What makes Herbert a unique poet in the history of English literature is his intimate love for god. God, in the poems of Herbert is the loving father, and Herbert;'s tone of intimacy startles readers. As a poet, h is quite than donne. Douglas bush says (of Herbert) " he does not electrify the the nerves so often, so startlingly as donne, but he is truly religious". Herbert excels in the description of the ser...
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Ginsberg's Poem Iron Horse
1,883 wordsAllen Ginsberg, born on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey, was one of the founders of the Beatnik subculture. His mother was a Communist and extremely paranoid, often trusting her son while scared of her family and the rest of society. Ginsberg struggled through family conflicts and homosexuality throughout his adolescence. Upon graduating high school, he moved on to Columbia University where he, during his freshman year was introduced to Beats such as Lucien Carr and Jack Kerouac who helped hi...
