She wrote her poems while rearing eight children, functioning as a hostess, being a good wife, and performing other domestic duties. ... Bradstreet is very critical about her works and it shows in her poems. ... In the third stanza, Bradstreet openly criticizes her work, "My foolish, broken, blemished Muse so sings; / All this to mend, alas, no art is able, / "Cause nature made it so irreparable" (16-18). ... Bradstreet's ability to be too hard on her writings only led to her writing fantastic poems. ... As a very talented writer, she was sure to put her heart and soul into each poem ...

• Word Count: 800
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Whitman took his poetry seriously and everything he wrote came from his heart. ... Lincoln's death also helped him write some of his poems like "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom"d" and "O"Captain My Captain". Though his father died, he was too heart broken to write about this due to him and his father's bond. ... His poems were upbeat with a unique rhyme scheme, sometimes not any at all. ...

• Word Count: 666
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Literature I believe goes beyond words on a paper but they are feelings from the heart, they bring out the persons personality and characteristics. ... Artist drew pictures of what they portrayed of the black life; singers sang their heart of how life was for them. ... Another writer of the time that wrote poems about black experience was Countee Cullen. ... "Silences are being broken, lost things have been found" says Toni Morrison about the African American literature that was beginning to come out (Morrison, 254). ...

• Word Count: 2368
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School