(Goetz 780) Cullen became known as a lyric poet and that an English poet mostly influenced his work named John Keats. ... Cullen believed that in order to be a great poet you had to master and accept standard poetic forms, tropes, and meters Americans inherited from European traditions. ... He accomplished a lot because he was determined and allowed no one to stand between him and what he wanted and was going to achieve. ...

• Word Count: 1342
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Some retailers refuse to carry CDs with "Parental Advisory Stickers", a few also go as far as to make it known to labels and artists that if the CD comes to their shelves with a "dirty" word, a "controversial" cover, or an "explicit" lyric it will not be allowed on the shelves. ... You also may remember when hard-core rapper Ice-T wrote the song cop killer. ... I always tell them that if you want to keep listening to the music that you enjoy, starting today you have to learn to fight back. If you don't fight for your own freedom, no one is going to give it to you." ... There will always ...

• Word Count: 1606
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In 1855, twelve of his works were published in a collection entitled "Leaves of Grass", which stands today as one of America's most popular literary works. ... In "Proud Music of the Storm" Whitman composes something that appears to be a lyric in an opera (Composers! ... And you, sweet singers of old lands-Sopani! ... To you a new bard, caroling free in the west, Obeisant, sends his love."). ...

• Word Count: 1470
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Later in the poem Taras asks his nation not to give up and stand up for themselves, because they need to fight altogether, hand by hand for their happiness. ... He was above all a lyric poet who was always disturbed by the anger, violence, weeping, cursing and then speaking with a voice of the greatest degree tenderness. ... At one point you hear a thunder of morally right anger, then words of heart-breaking tenderness, then again outbursts of bitter sarcasm, and then words of love and affection. ... In the final period of poetry Taras always wrote about encouraging light shining in the fu...

• Word Count: 1812
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

So can you really say what you want to say under protection of your First Amendment rights? That all depends on where you say it, and how you say it. ... When the novelist Barbara Kingsolver says "the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and shoving the constitution through a paper shredder" the statement is safeguarded. ... So can you say libel against a person? ...

• Word Count: 1987
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate