The Harlem Renaissance was an explosion of African-American arts, with middle and upper-class blacks as the dominant leaders. Poetry has never celebrated pride in African-American culture more than that period in the 20"s. ... Most poets wrote of their struggles and frustrations about being a African-American in a harsh, underpaying world. ... It's difficult to think that one era could bring about much more literature than many others. ... Poetry and any literature can also serve as a timeline by showing the struggles and how they ended. ...

• Word Count: 876
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Phillis Wheatley Behind the infamous poems of Phillis Wheatley lies and incredible and inspirational story of a young African girl and the struggles she overcame in her short life. Phillis Wheatley was born in Gambia, Africa around the year 1753. ... She was a very bright child who was reading passages from the Bible, Greek and Latin classics, astronomy, geography, history, and British literature only sixteen months after her arrival. ... It was the first book of published poetry by an African American. ... She married a free African American, John Peters. ...

• Word Count: 365
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

Dario describes his poetry as "the Hispanic form of the universal crisis in literature and spirit that began around 1885." ... He was of mixed African and European descent. He was a master at combining the traditional forms of literature with his experiences with speech, legends, and songs of the afro-Cubans. ... By the end of his life he was known as the most influential of the Latin-American poets who dealt with African themes....

• Word Count: 601
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Irony is a significant device used by the poets in the slavery poems "On Being Brought from Africa to America," "The Dying Fugitive," and "Middle Passage." "On Being Brought from Africa to America" is a piece from the celebrated African poetess Phillis Wheatley. ... Here Wheatley is addressing the attitudes of the whites towards the African slaves and freedmen of that time. ... She also tells them that though they may not believe it or want to aid them, the Africans can be cultured and more importantly saved through their acceptance of Christ. ... Robert Hayden uses his extensive knowledge ...

• Word Count: 846
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He also believed in the study and importance of the Greek and Roman classics as great works of literature. ... During the Renaissance, writers such as Dante Alighiere, Giovanni Boccaccio and Petrarch, along with the Italian painter Giotto were responsible for rediscovering, preserving and disseminating classical literature from the Greek and Romans. ... He wanted to restore the ideals of Ancient Rome by unifying Italy and wrote a Latin epic, Africa, which dealt with the results of the Punic Wars. ...

• Word Count: 645
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

From there the young writer flourished and won many awards for her literature including the Pulitzer Prize, American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and the Shelly Memorial Award. She was the first African American to win the prestigious Pulitzer Award. This poem was written in 1966 at the height of the civil rights movement and was geared towards young, disenfranchised African Americans. ... Brooks also employs slang words that were used in the common language of the African American community as a means to attract young African Americans to read her message. ...

• Word Count: 732
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

For a number of years he wandered about from one Italian city to another, seeking the ancient works that had the priceless ancient literature. ... They include the "Africa", dealing with the Second Punic war and especially with the tales of Scipio Africanus, and the "Carmen bucolicum" which was made up of twelve poems. ... This is quite true as he traveled around Europe searching for more literature and knowledge. ...

• Word Count: 675
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Also the author use the theme and literature to define their poems. ... Both authors life time are in 1900 century, they have same tones they wrote Fiction and poetry, both of them are African American, they both had tensions in their life, both of them was anger, and sad { pg# 231, 233}. ...

• Word Count: 546
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Crooks is only one example of literature depicting the treatment and the effects of that treat me on men of color. ... " This is what happened and what we see still happens, the African American people got so used to being called this word that they used it to refer to one another and to this day still do. ...

• Word Count: 870
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Hammon was the first black poet whose work were published for the first time in the United States. It is contrary to the popular beliefs. He is known famously as the writer of the poem An Evening Thought alongside other works such as Penitential Cries and Salvation by Christ (Poetry Foundation). The...

• Word Count: 552
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography