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Alice Walker Black Men
1,466 wordsWhen 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 style and use the same type of language in their wr...
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Poet Laureate Ted Hughes
2,097 wordsKnowledge of contemporary British poetry is of great importance when it comes to understanding the reigning trends of England. The 1970 s saw a fair amount of polemic concerning the discontinuities of the national "traditions, " most of it concerned with poetry, all of it vulnerable to a blunt totalizing which demonstrated the triumphant ability of "nation" to organize literary study and judgment -- as it does still, perhaps more than ever. It remains the case twenty years later that there is a ...
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Romantic Poets Eighteenth Century
536 wordsIn earlier days of poetry there were three types of poetry that were alike in some ways but different on views. Eighteenth century poets and Romantic poets focused mainly on nature and incorporated God some of the time. But in the works from the Puritans, their main focal point was also on nature, but it always came second to God. These different movements in poetry came about through the works of talented poets such as John Milton, Alexander Pushkin, Alexander Pope, and William Wordsworth. Seve...
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Sense Of Place Seamus Heaney
3,501 wordsSeamus Heaney and John Montague are highly praised Irish poets that have produced great amount of remarkable poems on various themes. Certainly, the poets are rather different both in their style and concepts they elaborate upon, however they have one thing in common in their poems, the general audience is able to see the sense of place, something that makes the poems of the aforementioned writers so different from many others. It is rather hard to explicitly define the sense of place, however i...
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Modern American Poetry First African American
1,571 wordsGwendolyn Brooks and Her Worth to the Literary Canon Gwendolyn Brooks (born in Kansas, 1917) is one of the most famous African American poets. She was the first African American writer to win a Pulitzer Prize and was best known for her amazing portrayal of urban black people, who face poverty and racism in their everyday lives. Despite the wide range of African American poets, Gwendolyn Brooks arguably made the greatest contribution into the Literary Canon not only in the United States, but beca...
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Quot Quot El Salvador
5,073 wordsCarolyn Forche? is known as a political poet, calling herself a " poet of witness" [source]. Growing up in Detroit in the 1950 s, poet Carolyn Forche? recalls discovering photographs from a Nazi concentration camp in Look Magazine. After her mother confiscated the journal and hid it, young Forche re-confiscated it, marking perhaps the beginning of a poetic vocation devoted to exposing tyranny, injustice, and bearing witness to the atrocities of the 20 th century. Born one of seven chil...
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William Carlos Williams Quot Quot
3,547 wordsNicholas Everett Olson, Charles (1910 - 70), was born and raised in Worcester, Massachusetts, and educated at Wesleyan University and Harvard, where he studied American civilization. During the Second World War he worked for the Democratic Party and for the Office of War information as assistant chief of the Foreign Language Division. His first two books, Call Me Ishmael (1947), a study of Melville Moby-Dick, and The Mayan Letters (1953), written to Robert Creeley from Mexico where he was studyi...
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9,492 wordsWHY WE SHOULD READ POETRY WHY should one read Poetry? That seems to me a good deal like asking: Why should one eat? One eats because one has to, to support life, but every time one sits down to dinner one does not say, I must eat this meal so that I may not die. On the contrary, we eat because we are hungry, and so eating appears to us as a pleasant and desirable thing to do. The necessity for poetry is one of the most fundamental traits of the human race. But naturally we do not take that into ...
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Circle Of Hell Divine Grace
2,983 wordswas written from 1308 to 1321 and is the seemingly simple story of a man, generally assumed to be Dante himself, who is miraculously enabled to undertake an ultra-mundane journey, which leads him to visit the souls in Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. He has two guides: Virgil, who leads him through the Inferno and Purgatorio; and Beatrice, who introduces him to Paradiso. Through these fictional encounters taking place from Good Friday evening in 1300 through Easter Sunday and slightly beyond, Dante...
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Circle Of Hell Dante
3,423 wordsVolume 1: Inferno Cantos I XI Canto I Halfway through his life, DANTE THE PILGRIM wakes to find himself lost in the dark wood. Terrified at being alone in so dismal a valley, he wanders until he comes to a hill bathed in sunlight, and his fear begins to leave him. But when he starts to climb the hill his path is blocked by three fierce beasts: first a LEOPARD, then a LION, and finally a SHE-WOLF. They fill him with fear and drive him back down to the sunless wood. At that moment the figure of a ...
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Epic Poems Southern Baptist
1,610 wordsPlato attacks poetry on two main fronts, claims to knowledge and as imitations. The poet as Plato knew him was a religious being, who was divinely inspired by the muse. It is therefore futile to attempt an analysis of the modern poet in comparison with the mythic poet. Instead, we must search our society to find a group which best resembles the mythic poet. And then, explore whether Plato's attacks still holds true against are new modern foe of philosophy, if any foe exist at all. The mythic poe...
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T S Eliot Quot And Quot
2,214 wordsWalter Kalaidjian He was born Theodore Huebner Roethke in Saginaw, Michigan, the son of Otto Roethke and Helen Huebner, owners of a local greenhouse. As a student at Saginaw's Arthur Hill High School, Roethke demonstrated early promise in a speech on the Junior Red Cross that was subsequently published in twenty-six languages. The poets adolescent years were jarred, however, by the death of his father from cancer in 1923, a loss that would powerfully shape Roethke's psychic and creative lives. F...
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Divided Into Four Dante And Virgil
2,438 wordsOn Good Friday 1300 AD, in Dantes thirty-fifth year, he goes astray from the straight road into the Dark Wood of Error. Seeing the Sun (Divine Illumination) lighting the Mount of Joy in the Distance, he attempts to climb up the mountainside but is blocked by three beasts of worldliness: the Leopard of Malice and Fraud, the Lion of Violence and Ambition, and the She-Wolf of Incontinence. When his hope is nearly lost, the shade of the Roman poet Virgil (a symbol of Human Reason) appears to him. Vi...
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Belle Dame Sans Merci Quot Quot
5,864 wordsElizabeth H. Davis In nearly all transformations of syllabics, deletion disturbs the stanzas into free verse. That process is physically evident in typescripts of " To a Snail" and " A Grave. " pivotal typescript / manuscript of " A Grave" also shows the close relationship between excision and free verse (Rosenbach I: 02: 14). The key syllabic draft, itself a revision, begins the same way the final draft does? " Man looking into the sea. " Four types of mar...
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Quot Quot Avant Garde
5,115 wordsNeal Bowers This is not collage, because the assorted elements are not reduced to static snapshots of the city. Instead, they appear and pass away as OHara walks through them. The effect is something like a motion picture, with OHara in each frame. Saying what all the details mean is easy they mean whatever they are, and their importance lies in their randomness and transience Everything has equal significance Puerto Ricans, dead friends, a warehouse and OHara, caught up in the fullness of such ...
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Show Little Thought One Would Show Little Thought Poetry
2,583 wordsThe time has come to loot to hew and Eden Marjorie Milligan I was born in a warren of no great distinction in the vicinity of the middle hillbilly class. There, with progressive effort (gravity never sleeps), I will possibly grow quite old (the women do in my family), and indisputably shall I die. I am the daughter of an annually retired judge who has lived and worked inside the tawny leather bindings of jurisprudence for well over half a century. For this man words themselves have become palpab...
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Spanish Civil War Quot Quot
1,248 words[Davidman's poems about the Spanish Civil War in Letter to a Comrade oppose General Francisco Franco and support freedom fighters associated with the Loyalists. The following excerpt by Malcolm Cowley reflects the position that, according to Daniel Aaron, most American communist and non-communists intellectuals believed. The Spanish Civil War (1936 - 39) was a power struggle between the elected Spanish government (the Loyalists) and the Nationalists, the rebels in the Spanish army led by Franco....
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Republic Of Vietnam Men And Women
1,829 wordsJohn Clark Pratt Poetry that documents the attitudes toward the Vietnam Was well as the origins, development, and conduct of the was both pervasive and significant. Although only a few poems by French writers reflect that countrys involvement, the Vietnamese tradition of poetic expression produced a large body of work, both personal and political, written by soldiers and civilians of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) and the Republic of Vietnam (RVN). Unfortunately, except for the efforts...
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Allen Ginsberg Work
880 wordsRimbaud and Ginsberg as Modern Poets Anyone who has read a fair sampling of modernist poetry or studied some representative visionary poets has found the experience something of a revelation. Immediately exhilarating for some, initially intimidating for others and, for all of us, a profound departure from traditional literature. According to Rimbaud, for a poet to be absolutely modern he must become a visionary and a poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless and systematized disor...
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Man And Woman Romantic Poets
850 wordsWhen we Romantic Era Romanticism When we think of romance or romantic we often associate the term with love. People talk about how they want their significant others to be more? romantic? . But what does the term? romantic? really mean. Does it mean giving flowers, spending an evening alone by candlelight, bringing home extravagant gifts, or reciting beautiful poetry. Within today? s society it can mean any one of those things and many more. But in the late eighteenth, early nineteenth century (...
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