When it comes to expressing my creative outlets through writing, I think back on those things that have always touched my life. ... Whether it be the tragedy of my past or the longing to see what awaits me in the near future, my writing has been constant enough i can count on it to help me release all my emotions. ... To say that writing on that which you do not know about is difficult, is an understatement, as I have learned time and again in recent years. ...

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Throughout school, I've always had a love-hate relationship with writing. ... But, as the days went on, I found myself writing more and more. ... My involvement in journaling led me to discover creative writing. ... I was stressed out and the only writing I did was for research papers in class. ... Yet when I start reading a book or writing a story, everything else fades away. ...

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It also allows us to see the creative genius and peculiarity of her poetry. ... Goheen Professor in the Council of Humanities at Princeton University, where she conducts undergraduate workshops in creative writing. ... Morrisons writing technique is very different from other novelists. ... Both Morrison and Dickinson have a unique writing style. ... After Dickinson was advised by Higginson not to publish her works, she kept on writing and creating new works without trying to change her writing style. ...

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His poetry combines easy to read poetry styles with cute and creative stories that appeal strongly to young readers. ... He uses things that every kid faces in their daily life like homework and uses a cute story about a homework machine to create a humerous and creative poem. ... Roald Dahl likes to use rhyming, making his poetry fun to read and he can be very creative in the words that he rhymes. ... he creates some of hte most amazing charaters and puts them in whitty and creative storylines that can bring smiles to anyones face. ... All three of these authors are truly amazing poets and ...

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Walt Whitman Through the history of the United States there have been many poets; with them came an equal number of writing styles. ... This paper will review Whitman's poem, ""Leaves of Grass," his writing style, and discuss the controversy that has followed for over one hundred years. ... It comprises poems written between 1855 and 1892 that glorify America by looking at the landscape, history, and people through the eyes of a creative thinker. ... Of course, any writer who breaks the mold and develops a new and unique writing style, will be the target of positive and negative crit...

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Michael Brooke, an employee of the writing faculty at Brookdale College stood and introduced Dunn as, "a writer who understands grace." ... He then attended the New School Writing Workships from 1964 to 1966 and earned his Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Syracuse University in 1970. ... Once he started writing poems seriously he realized that it was what he most wanted to do. When asked what his major influence was in writing he replied, "I was a shy, quiet young man and writing was a way of speaking for me." ... He is also a Distinguished Artist Fellowship winner from NJ Council on t...

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Anne not only had to confront this opposition during her career, but she also faced creative differences among her peers. Many of the writers from the late 1600s were writing theoretical works about divine will, the universal order of life, and God's justness. ... This emotional plea with herself helps the readers see her dedication and passion for her writing. ... Dickinson is creatively able to place two different meanings into one poem, depending on how the reader choices to perceive it. ... Due to this, it is interesting that she references and questions woman's roles in soci...

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With Poe's writing skills the gloomy atmosphere plays as much a role in the story as the warped characters. ... The literary construction of Edgar Allan Poe's writing did not match the realities of the 19th century. ... With these accolades he could almost be called the father of writing as we know it. ... The prose of Edgar Allan Poe's writing is symbolic and surrealistic, yet romantic. His creative writing altered and extended Romanticism and Gothism. ...

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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 ...

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As a result of Emily Dickinson's loneliness, she was able to focus on her poetry better than other authors that time modern authors who had no effect on her writing. ... In 1955, Thomas Johnson published Dickinson's poems in their original formats, therefore displaying the creative genius and peculiarity of her poetry. ...

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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...

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Her style of writing, her works, the image that she created, and the crazy life that she led are all prime examples of this. ... Sexton decided to enroll in Robert Lowell's graduate writing seminar at the Boston Center for Adult Education (Discovering Biographies 2). ... She began writing extremely personal verse concerning her experiences as a mental patient (Discovering Biographies 1). ... Anne's "open" style of writing was a very debatable issue. ... Sexton believed that complete honesty and self-revelation were an essential to creative work, so this was often the basis of h...

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The majority of his creative works communicates Christian subjects and maintains a strategic distance from meeting with the slaveholding class that oversaw Hammon's life. ... The poem is honorable for its gravity and excellence additionally outstanding for components of American minority writing. ...

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William Wordsworth In William Wordsworth's poems, "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" and "She Was a Phantom of Delight," the theme of memory is used as a powerful and creative force. ... While I was reading these two poems, I was transformed from a listener to an active participant in what he was writing about. ...

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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. ...

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Donne was the leader of a style of poetry writing called "metaphysical poetry," which was popular near the end of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century. This writing has complex figures of speech with unusual verse forms, meters, puns, metaphors, imagery, and paradoxes. ... There are certainly erotic moments in Donne's writing, such as in "To His Mistress, on Going to Bed." Donne's strong love for his wife allows him to write creative sexual and metaphysical love poems. ... He is known for his excellent writing qualities, consisting of ordinary speech, puns, paradoxes, and ...

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At the age of seventeen, he returned to India to start his writing career as a journalist. ... Kipling's British Empire hindered and assisted in his creative process (Cody 1). ... Apart from the military "Tommy- is seen as a prime example of Kipling's writing style with the use of accurate dialect. ... Writing his prose in this particular fashion has also become quite a negative topic of Kipling's poetry. ...

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Another example of an unconventional and creative rhyming scheme gave Nash the opportunity to use a Spanish word in the sixth stanza, rhyming "nirvana" with "manana," which means tomorrow or sometime in the future. ... Continuing Nash's creative rhyme and language, he successfully uses onomatopoeia on the first line of the fifth stanza to a rhyme that pairs perfectly, "The bluebells and cowbells, chime; Summertime is itchy time." Nash also uses olden-day English in his poetry to give a certain kind of archaic air to his writing and emulate the speech of an...

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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...

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He began writing after he gradated from high school because he could not afford to go to college. ... As his first writing made a little impression on people, his second collection flew off. ... I think in this poem Dunbar feels this way and is writing about his own life and other people's lives. ... Dunbar preferred writing in Standard English; his dialect poems are used more for humorous purposes than meaning (Tuner 110). ... As you see in "We Wear Masks" Dunbar uses end rhyme, such as " We wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes", but in "Sympa...

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Shelly is writing about writer's block and hope that the winds of change will bring him inspiration. ... Shelly finds the cycle of nature and compares it to the thought and creative process. ...

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It is however relevant to Dransfield's poetry that he took drugs, and even made it more effective as we the reader can be more influenced by a writer actually experiencing what he or she is passionately writing about, compared with say a poet who writes about events and issues not involved in there own life. ... It was common knowledge that a lot of creative people took drugs in the sixties. ... According to Rodney Hall Dransfield was writing mature poems by age 18 at which time Rodney Scouted Dransfield and encouraged him to pursue poetry professionally. ...

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A tension in writing between the popular and the esoteric, and the popular and specialized, the commercial and the avant-garde, became a feature of twentieth-century literature. ... Against Modernism it was said that it produced chaotic and difficult writing, that it moved beyond the capacity of many readers and became elitist. ... What is significant is that both kinds of writing could flourish at the same time. ... The year 1900 marked only a chronological entry into the twentieth century; many of the new tones of voice, the new anxieties and difficulties that we associate with modern writi...

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After much thought and research, I have concluded that historical background, personal experience, and family life, all come out in a poet's writing. ... Browning's interest was sparked by this incident and brought about the creative dialogue of My Last Duchess. ...

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He worked in his father's shop the first part of his life, which was were he developed his drawing talent and then also his talent for writing poetry. ... Blake's vision of creative force in the universe made a balance of innocence and experience, throughout "The Lamb" and "The Tyger." ...

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