Realism Hughes poem "Mother to Son" was written during the Harlem Renaissance. At this time in history, many African Americans expressed their thoughts through music, art, poetry and other areas of the arts. ... Wrote during the Harlem Renaissance, the purpose of "Mother to Son" was mostly to inspire African American men and women to achieve their goals in life. ...
Likely the most influential writer in all of English literature and certainly the most important playwright of the English Renaissance, William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England. ... The Relationship Between Art and Life Like much of Shakespeare's work, Sonnet 18 is all about the art-form of writing and expressing one's self through this medium. Sonnet 18 is, at its clearest, a poem about how art itself can give value to human life. Art makes us ponder the value of human life and the significance of purpose and meaning. ... In th...
The art of seduction is a universal "hot" topic conversed by both men and women regardless of their race and culture. ... The art of seduction is the art of persuasion, ultimately an application utilized to reach one goal; to meet our sexual desire. ... There are countless tactics and techniques in the art of seduction and both of the poems illustrate the speakers" own stratagem in convincing their target. ...
Second, the glosa form of the poem (an early Renaissance form first developed by poets of the Spanish court), with its opening quatrain written by another poet, followed by four ten-line stanzas, their concluding lines taken consecutively from the quatrain, and the sixth and ninth lines rhyming with the borrowed tenth, is in itself a dialogue between two poets: the poet who wrote the quatrain, and the poet writing the glosa. ... She is also a visual artist whose works are represented in The National Gallery of Canada and The Art Gallery of Ontario. ...
