He also believed in the study and importance of the Greek and Roman classics as great works of literature. ... They felt they were part of a new age of artistic and intellectual achievement and that the language and style of the great classical works should be celebrated and studied. The Renaissance was a rebirth of civilization after a long period of decline since the glory days of the Roman Empire. ... He helped start the humanist movement by his interpretations and preservation of classical works and with his views on individual expression and a unified, nationalistic Italy. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He was popular with black and white readers of his day, and his works are celebrated today by scholars and school children. ... He seeks to redeem the darker brother throughout his works of poetry (Mead 132). He was entertained as a child with stories of the plantation houses which clearly had something to do with his poetry because he seems to write a lot on the slave days on the plantation houses. ... In many of his works he pointed out racial injustices very bitterly or satirically (Turner 129). ... He wrote intimate feelings of his family's slavery days and how they felt impriso...

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• Grade Level: High School

"Flame-Heart" is a poem in the traditional romantic style, resembling the works of Shelley and Wordsworth in its fashion. ... Memories about his days as a schoolboy come back to him, but still, he ends with the poinsettias. ... Recalling the roll of a sonnet and romantically styled, his poem calls up the greatly admired flow of poets he respected and whose works he had read. ...

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Bysshe claims that the power of the king is just a moment in time all will seize to exist, "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: look on my works, ye mighty, and despair." ... This would be considered enough in those days to make something exotic but the poet makes it even more exotic by using a strange name and an unknown location. ...

• Word Count: 311
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Tears, Idle Tears Lord Tennyson Alfred's poem "Tears, Idle Tears" is a brief account of a gentleman reminiscing on the days that are no more. ... The line exemplifies his feelings of longing and sorrow; the days can not be relived in full form. ... The vivid imagery in this poem truly is the tapestry within architecture of the poem which sets it apart from other works. ...

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This poem takes place in the land of Hush-A-Bye in the days of Yore. ... "Mommies didn't either; sisters, aunts, grannies neither Cause they were quiet, and sweet, and pretty in those wondrous days of Yore. ... The setting, the Land of Hush-A-Bye, and the time, the days of Yore, are very eccentric. ... Bodle, Chance 4 Works Cited "Bridges, James."" ...

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• Grade Level: High School

His other great poem "Works and Days" describes the life of Greek peasants, emphasizing on their hard work, Good judgment and thriftiness. ... Aristotle also wrote important works, including Poetics, a masterpiece of literary criticism. ... Literature has come a very long way since those days. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Thomas uses a metaphor to describe their works, saying that "their words forked no lightning", (5) meaning that their words, their lives" work, will not be a landmark in time. ... Thomas uses personification to describe their deeds, saying they "might have danced in a green bay". (8) By personifying "deeds", the men and their works are seen as a whole, not as two separate parts. ... "Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight", (13) representing men who are at the last days of their lives, like his father. ...

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Kamieñska points out that "a poet works in a word like a sculptor works in a stone and clay."" (1967) Nevertheless, one must not forget it is a strenuous and bitter work, a painful toil of giving names to the world. ... He also puts a question: "Does poetry only belong to bygone days when the average person spent what little leisurely time he did have reading and reciting?...

• Word Count: 799
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Kamieñska points out that "a poet works in a word like a sculptor works in a stone and clay."" (1967) Nevertheless, one must not forget it is a strenuous and bitter work, a painful toil of giving names to the world. ... He also puts a question: "Does poetry only belong to bygone days when the average person spent what little leisurely time he did have reading and reciting?...

• Word Count: 752
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• Grade Level: High School

With works ranging from romantic comedies to tragedies, Shakespeare uses hidden meanings along with the whimsical setting of the Renaissance to enthrall his readers in his works. ... Viola decides immediately to make her own way, and works in disguise as a page for Duke Orsino. ... (Shakespeare's Characters, 466) Just as Shakespeare's works demonstrate, Twelfth Night uses Iambic Pentameter and metaphors to make characters and situations more appealing. ...

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The bog person in this poem describes her days underground aswell-kept from reality?. ... The turf-cutter once again appears in The Tollund Man as a symbolic poetic figure in Heaney's works. ... He works for what he earns, and by digging deeper into the earth, he is able to obtain a better quality turf. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

She is exhausted, worn out, and all she wants to do is find relief in the never ending days full of work. ... When writing their works, poets use literary devices to make the message of their theme stand out and be more effective. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In line three the image of the cracked hands that ache is essential for the poem because the speaker describes his Father who is a laborer outside on cold winter days. ... I think the angers belong to either one because often in families where one parent constantly works a strenuous laboring job, they are often overworked and sometimes underpaid. ...

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Shakespeare's continued popularity perfectly demonstrates how influential his works are, regardless of era and generation. ... He states, through the sestet, that his beloved's beauty will not whither like the days of Autumn, fade away like the sun behind clouds or be inconsistent like the temperature. ... Seconds to minutes, minutes to hours, hours to days. ...

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Likewise, visual imagery supports the theme of sorrow in the second line of "On His Blindness", 'Ere half my days in this dark world' Also, auditory imagery is evoked in the ninth line, 'That murmur,' which reflects God's indistinctive response that connects to the theme of patience. ... Additionally, the implementation of imagery, figurative languages and form clearly contributed to the themes' development of both authors' works of art....

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"Mothlike in mists, scintillate in the minute/brilliance of cloudless days, with broad bellying sails/they glide to the wind tossing green water/from their sharp prows while over them the crew crawls/ant-like, solicitously grooming them, releasing,/making fast as they turn, lean far over and having/caught the wind again, side by side, head for the mark... This free verse poem that describes the wonderfully uninhibited sea could not have happened in the set of organization, of say a sonnet or in the rigid works of a sestina. ...

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In fact, he wrote nearly seventy short works of fiction. ... So I flung open the shutter, when, with much flapping and flutter, in stepped a striking, almost noble, raven of virtuous days of history past (37-38). ...

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Both poets had different style of writing but both of their works, their arts were not published until after their death. ... This really meant, back in the days, that if she does not make love to him, it is like she is murdering him, stabbing him to death by refusing him. ...

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First, she claims "great princes" spend their days consumed with thoughts of their extensive power, whether it is real or not, and how they can expand upon it (3-4). ... This respectable character enjoys his life as he works with his hands, doing an honest man's work (47-49). ...

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A proem is a short introduction, in verse, to the matter and meaning of the rest of the poem. Some published editions of the poem do not make a division between The Proem and The Dream. The Proem is lines 1 through 290, and The Dream is lines 291 through 1334, the end of the poem. In  The Book of t...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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