He attended Harvard from 1911 to 1915, studying literature and writing daily. ... All of Cummings's poetry attests to the author's never ending search for fresh metaphors and new means of expression through creative placement of words on the page, new word constructions, and unusual punctuation and capitalization. ... The poem "in Just-" celebrates youth in playful, imaginative and creative contractions-- "mud-/luscious" and "puddle-wonderful," for example--while the poem "O sweet spontaneous" revels in nature that can only be appreciated fully through the senses rather than through ...

• Word Count: 1201
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Shelley understood that it was impossible to apprehend the real world in its completeness, yet believed we can access to it through a creative faculty called imagination. ... By saying that poetry is the expression of imagination, Shelley acknowledges the fact that poetry is the consequence of an active mental process –an adjustment of the impressions that stimulate our mind–, which implies that imagination is a creative faculty, as well as the fact that "man is an instrument over which a series of external and internal impressions are driven" (Ibid.). ... The poetic &q...

• Word Count: 1524
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, since most poets thrived on the emotional and foolish abstract that they were writing about, there was no specific category that this mode of thinking could fall into. ... The middle ages were regarded as a creative period when humans lived close to the soil and were perfect with the effects of industrialization or urbanization. ...

• Word Count: 620
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

So much has been written about "Fern Hill" :- the other writers that might have influenced Thomas; the positioning of the poem within the writer's oeuvre; his tortuous creative methodology (rewrite upon holistic rewrite), that we sometime can lose sight of the essence of the work. ... We all therefore have our own sanitised nostalgia - wistful perhaps, sentimental certainly so that when a masterly creative talent such as Thomas chronicles his own rose-coloured background his work instantly chimes and rhymes with us. ... "Now" implies the immediacy of the reversion of the poet back to chil...

• Word Count: 994
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although he is not the first one to use myth in poetry, Al-Magaleh is one of the pioneers who excel in using creatively myth in his poetry. ... That is why critics believe that by the break out of the revolution, Yemen has settled the issue of poetry by defeating the last conspiracy against its new Republican system in the 1970 and this brought about the emergence of new era for writing poetry in a modern fashion. ...

• Word Count: 1102
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), while living a life of seclusion, was very audacious mentally, revealing a complex psyche struggling to press her inner conflicts, which she interprets through the creative and reflective act of language. Writing about sex, (the) human body, many other "taboo" subjects and common objects and people, Whitman and Dickinson address the larger matters of life, namely death and religion. Although they often deal with the same themes, their approaches differ and both pioneered their own unique style of writing. ... There is a close connection between letter-wr...

• Word Count: 2619
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Therefore, the new generation of poets rose in a protest against the cultural values and traditions of the Victorian Age, trying to give English poetry a new creative urge. ... In his creative work of the period Eliot reflected the tragedy and the spiritual bankruptcy of the post-war epoch and portrayed apocalyptical pictures of total devastation, death and horror caused by the irreversible historic cataclysms. ... It's ironic that it was in the highly-industrialized America that the author of The Waste Land abandoned urbanism, which filled practically all of his works of the 1920-es, ...

• Word Count: 1915
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Literature is a creative act. ... He described literature as, "imaginative writing in the sense of fiction" (Eagleton 1). If one then believes that 'writing in the sense of fiction' is the meaning of literature then who is it that decides what is true and untrue - and thus ultimately, literature? ...

• Word Count: 5585
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: Undergraduate