All the themes of his works are regarded as the trailblazers of Negro spirituals and adversary conversations. ... An Evening Thought is a poem whose theme revolve around themes such as Christianity as a religion, God. ... It speaks as one of the Early American Literature distributed in 1760; the period termed as Enlightenment period (Poetry Foundation). ... In the event that the rich and capable are moving their consideration from religion and shift their focus to business, science, and innovation, then the religion start more to serve the minority. ... It is so persuasive such that a Christia...

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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. ... Before 1914, English literature and ideas were in many ways still harking back to the nineteenth century: after 1918, Modern begins to define the twentieth century. ... There is also the fact that there is much more literature, more cultural production in general, in the twentieth century than in any previous period. ... It was largely a poetry of urban themes; the Romantic dependence on nature had already declined...

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Specifically, he changed schools often and his parents pressured him to pursue his studies in the sciences, at this time he discovered and began studying the works of Freud. ... Auden uses his characteristic style to intertwine the theme within imagery and metaphors. ... Dawson Parish (Who obtained his PhD in Comparative Literature) states, Auden"s brilliant portrayal of the relationship between time and life is characteristic of his classical training. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He attended Harvard from 1911 to 1915, studying literature and writing daily. ... 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 science, philosophy, or religion. ... Beginning with Tulips and Chimneys, reviewers described Cummings's style as eccentric and self-indulgent, designed to call attention to itself rather than to elucidate themes. ... He is remembered for his ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the Victorian era, there was a huge conflict occurred especially because of Darwin's theory between science and religion. ... Science brought new inventions and these inventions, while doing good to humans, but also, were making them more mechanized. ... This conflict between science and religion is wonderfully depicted in the poems of those poets who were extremely worried because of the conflict, Matthew Arnold is one of those. ... He is neither too melancholic like Arnold nor too optimistic like Robert Browning, another contemporary, in terms of the tone, mood and theme of his poetr...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the opening soliloquy, Richard III is shown as an anti-hero, and he reveals his determination to prove himself as a villain (1.1.30).This is different when compared to the case of Faustus who was presented as a brilliant man of science who had studied several disciplines and was an outright academic hero, very knowledgeable, and, thus, attractive. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The escape to freedom is one of the themes in the poem "the female figure's adoration of the Fascist is an extreme result of a stereotypically feminine escape from the feelings of aloneness associated with freedom, through masochistic strivings- (Strangeways). ...

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• Grade Level: High School