Bryant wrote his finest poetry in his youth. ... 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. ... Initially acclaimed for his poetry, Williams eventually also won acceptance as a writer of prose. ... A distinctive feature of Cummings's poetry is the abandonment of uppercase letters. ... In her poetry Moore embedded crystalline references to a vast array of subjects. ...

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

Kipling was born and raised in the English colony of Bombay, India, a place he later recalled in his memoirs: "My first impression is of daybreak, light and color and golden and purple fruits at the level of my shoulder" (Kipling qtd. in "The Poetry Foundation," 2014). ... Instead of pronouncing a self-imposed burden in poetry and literature, our society shows progress, though there is still a long road ahead when it comes to removing racism from the global stage. ...

• Word Count: 906
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography

This was written as an analysis of the Atlanta child murders of 1979 and 1980. ... Baldwin wrote novels, poetry, essays and a screenplay in the later years of his life. ... Walter Meserve writes in The Black American Writer: Poetry and Drama, Vol. 2, Baldwin tries to use theatre as a pulpit for his ideas. ...

• Word Count: 1677
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Drawn by his own cords of fear and longing, man will imagine that he is tired of the light and his small, familiar world.3 "No amount of rationalization... or Freudian analysis" can overcome "the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood."4 Why? ... This is most likely due to the fact that American society is "[inching] ever closer to embracing phenomena that science [cannot] answer."12 Even highly esteemed academic publications such as the Journal of Scientific Exploration "now treat the paranormal with as much respect and analysis as physics or the chaos theory."13 T...

• Word Count: 3126
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The mistreatment of the Haitian people by white-Americans is a central theme in Felix Morriseau-Leroy's Tourist and Boat People. Both poems discuss how one's status in society is determined by race, color, culture and nationality. They show how people are judged and put in a negative light because of due to who they are. People have to deal with struggles due to insecurities of their culture and people degrading them for where they are from. Haitians, and many other nationalities and cultures are degraded for who they are and where they are from. ...

• Word Count: 776
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

It is impossible for scientists and doctors to make groundbreaking discoveries and for great artists and thinkers to come up with great works of art and poetry if they have not been educated in their respective fields as well as the many other subjects in academia that ultimately aid in fine tuning their brains into being able to make these discoveries. ...

• Word Count: 2568
• Approx Pages: 10