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. ...

• Word Count: 1665
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 1953
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

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

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...

• Word Count: 1368
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 1623
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1300
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

After retiring from Harvard in 1854, Longfellow devoted himself exclusively to writing. ... Poe, one of the earliest masters of short story writing, created the first detective stories. ... His poem "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower," recited by the poet, demonstrates Williams's clear style and creative page layout. ...

• Word Count: 1931
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

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

On or about 1910, there was an explosion of innovation and creative energy that shook every field of artistic endeavor. ... Yeats became heavily focussed on new occult speculations, his personal life resolved by marriage, he began writing exceedingly metaphysical poetry. ...

• Word Count: 2111
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School