One of the most stark in these verses is that of a man named Garver, and nights of drugs ("bloody cottons.") ... Just as the trumpeter stands "at dawn" and "blow[s] a silver chorus to the buildings" so could Ginsberg invisibly shout his prose unto the world, like Kerouac in "MacDougal Street Blues." ... The cop is "invisible with his music [or, their music]." ... This man returned to streets that were before riddled with familiar faces, concepts, and general attitudes. ... The parking lot is his solace that is made even more hollow, and hallow, by his coarse memory, to not only the man he was...

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• Grade Level: High School

Anne Bradstreet was the first published female poet. But in the time of Puritanism and strict moral codes, the progressive woman was looked down upon. The role of a woman was to cook, clean, milk the cows, and manage the household in the event of the absence of the man. But there were women like An...

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Wiggins 1 Summary A lonely man tries to ease his sorrow by reading books of the "forgotten sorrow-. ... The man asks the Raven for his name, and surprisingly it answers, and says that it's "Nevermore-. ... Finally the man stops, realizing that to keep asking questions would be pointless. ... The storm outside is used to strongly stress the seclusion of this man. ... Here the word is used to illustrate the swift way an invisible sent spreads through a room. ...

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Cummings defines poetry emphasizing its impact upon a man. ... In other words poetry should be simple and understood by every man. ... For him poetry was: "a man speaking to men- and "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings-. ... But despite its invisibility many people still read poetry for pleasure today and I would like school children to be among them....

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Cummings defines poetry emphasizing its impact upon a man. ... In other words poetry should be simple and understood by every man. ... For him poetry was: "a man speaking to men- and "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings-. ... But despite its invisibility many people still read poetry for pleasure today and I would like school children to be among them. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The night was always perceived as the female's domain whereas the day belonged to the man. In "The Carnival of Venice" the roles of man and woman are reversed. ... His "substance [is] dwindled" and his "spirit nothing but an ear, invisible, insane." ... Under the night domain, the man suffers a nightmare, while it can be seen that the woman is having the same dream but enjoying it. This suggests that the night is the woman's domain whereas the day is linked with the man. ...

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