Paul Laurence Dunbar is a well know African American, classical poet of the nineteenth century, who writes poems in standard English or black dialect, seeks to recreate the Negro, and cries out to freedom form slavery to all of the Negroes who read his work. ... The image of Dunbar was defaced because they censured him for tarnishing the symbol and meaning of the plantation tales of the nineteenth century (Redding 129). ... Paul Laurence Dunbar is a well know African American, classical poet of the nineteenth century, who writes poems in standard English or black dialect, seeks to recreate...

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• Grade Level: High School

Women's poetry in the late nineteenth century was very sentimental and death was a common tool in provoking pathos in the reader. ... Women's poetry in the nineteenth century wasn't just about love, death, and expression. ... Nineteenth century female poets had a lot to say. ...

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Although Walt Whitman, America's poet, used slang, colloquialisms, and regional dialects in his poems rather than the usual rhyme and meter found in the nineteenth century. ... At this time, in the early nineteenth century the world and America were undergoing big changes, which fueled Whitman's writings. ...

• Word Count: 1606
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In 1920, a moment all women in the U.S. had been waiting for, the nineteenth Amendment was ratified, allowing women to vote. ... Amy Lowell was not a very feminine woman in comparison to women of the late nineteenth century into the early twentieth century. ... Her crusade efforts.... had a formative influence on the development of American Poetry in the twentieth century" (Magill, 1772). ...

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The nineteenth century romantics- A. ... Edgar Allan Poe- The short stories and poetry of 19th-century American Edgar Allan Poe reflect the writer's haunting imagination. ... The twentieth and twenty-first century romantics A. ... In being both traditional and skeptical, Frost's poetry helped provide a link between the American poetry of the 19th century and that of the 20th century. ... Cummings (1894-1962) - American poet, who was one of the most radically experimental and inventive writers of the 20th century. ...

• Word Count: 1931
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• Grade Level: High School

The romantic ode was at the pinnacle of its popularity in the nineteenth century. ... Keats calls the urn an "unravish'd bride of quietness" because it has existed for centuries without undergoing any changes (it is unravished) as it sits quietly on a shelf or table. ...

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"Her compact, forceful language, characteried formally by long disruptive dashes, heavy iambic meters, and angular, imprecise rhymes, is one fo the singular literary achievements of of the nineteenth century. ...

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The Modernist era arrived in late nineteenth century Europe due to a general change in the attitude of the time. The effects of Industrialization on Europe's society, the development of scientific theories, such as Darwin's evolution theory', and the tension between the European nations that was ...

• Word Count: 2437
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School