However, it is also questionable whether or not the reader has much room to take any individual meaning from a sonnet as they would be able to with other pieces of literature, as its strict contextual nature and rules that define its genre allow for limited variation across sonnet writing and therefore would appear to only present us with a single type of writing and style. ... Shakespeare has used this type of unconventional writing in many of his poems, further supporting the argument that this is his interpretation of the sonnet. ... Following tradition, Browning makes her interpretation of...

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Wolfe is among the most celebrated authors of the early 20th century, and is credited for paving the way for autobiographical fiction genre, thus there is no doubt that Angelou's respect and knowledge of the author's work assisted in strengthening her autobiographical works. ... Maya Angelou uses a unique style of writing. ... Angelou's theories about literature can be established from her different works and style of writing. ... Angelou's writing theory is based on her life experiences, as well as that of other black Americans. ... Through her cultural context, influence...

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Wheatley is known for writing poetry with a dominant influence of religious and moral themes. ... Robert Hayden uses his extensive knowledge of literature to make a new genre of slave poetry, but all of them recognized the effectiveness of irony as a literary device. ...

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Poetry differs from prose and other genres by that has formal devices and techniques used to construct it, and that without such techniques poetry is not, as such, poetry. ... Given that willow, medlar and crabapple are flora not native to Australia, the subject she is writing about, we get the sense that she is talking about an introduced plant, one that was once ordered and neatly planted, but now is overgrown and spreading wildly. ... Robert Frost (1875-1965) said that "Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down." ...

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Aristotle divides this genre into quantitative divisions: prologue, episode, exodus, and choral unit (which can also be divided into parts). ... The writer should indulge his/herself in the emotions he is writing and the gestures that follow those emotions. ... By watching any episode of the "Drew Carey Show,"" or "Paradise Island,"" or "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,"" or virtually anything, he would be left writing more instructions on how to write good drama, and maybe, just maybe, finessing his wardrobe, grooming, and cooking. ...

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The pastoral mode of literature refers to poems about the rural world that can often be seen in an idealized way. Beginning with Virgil who adapted the pastoral by presenting the lives of the shepherd's in a more idealized way and also used it to indicate contemporary political problems. The pastora...

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Instead of the serious genres, high subjects, and elevated style and decorum of the Neo-Classic period, Romanticism heralded an era of social, political and literary revolution, new beginnings and "high possibilities". ... Whilst he may not have always succeeded in writing in the "common" language of ordinary people in all of his poems, he certainly did so in "Strange fits of passion I have known". ...

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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? ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate