Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), or Petrarch was an Italian humanist and poet and is considered to be the first modern poet of the Italian Renaissance. ... He studied law in Bologna but in 1326 his father died and Petrarch returned to Avignon to take minor orders in the church and would devote much of his life in the service of the church. ... Petrarch is a symbol of the Renaissance and a "modern man" because of his interest in writing about individual feelings and suffering. An example of this is his Vita Solitaria (1480), which was translated in 1924 as Solitary Life. ... The Renaissance was...

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Orsino's courtly love is typical of the Renaissance, as the object of his affections does not return his love. ... It also implies that the setting is the Renaissance because of the presented social order. ... Malvolio often wishes that he held Olivia's heart and hand, but the social order and classes found in Renaissance times restrict him. ... Olivia is of noble blood, and for her to chase after someone, let alone someone not of noble blood, is unthinkable in Renaissance times. ... Malvolio's strict attitude towards life brings down the idyllic world in which he lives, whil...

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Realism Hughes poem "Mother to Son" was written during the Harlem Renaissance. ... In "Mother to Son" he lets the readers know that everything in life is not going to be easy and that there are going to be trials that everyone will face in life. Biographical Theory of Criticism "Mother to Son" Closely parallels the life of Hughes. ... The theme of "Mother to Son" is that life is not easy. ... 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. ...

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At the beginning of his career, he was surrounded by the Harlem Renaissance. ... At this point in his life, Hughes was enjoying the culture and excitement of the Harlem renaissance. ... This poem shows the growing bitterness in Hughes' life. ... For Hughes, it would appear that his life ended on a dejected note. ... For his entire life he had been writing about racism, slavery, and inequality. ...

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"Fear no more the heat of the sun" is written by William Shakespeare, in the time Elizabethan England, during the later part of the renaissance period, when society was very structured, and different from today. ... Shakespeare exercises complex metaphors to depict the struggles one undergoes in life, and to contrast between life and death. Through this he creates meaning-to "fear no more" life for everything will come to an end. He urges the reader to overcome all melancholic sentiments that lead one to oppose a peaceful death, after the battle of life. ... This reinforces his commanding them...

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Angelou's style of writing shows her honesty, feelings, and emotions about most of the experiences that she went through in her life, as well as the life of the people around her (Richard 84). ... During the years when she went mute, Angelou would memorize his poems while imagining how they would recited in real life. ... Angelou is considered as one of the great voices of contemporary black literature, as well as a remarkable renaissance woman. ... Angelou's writing theory is based on her life experiences, as well as that of other black Americans. ... In conclusion, Maya Angelou was...

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His piece "The Flea," written in 1633, depicts a typical renaissance love poem (Kelly, The Seagull Reader Poems, page 50). Fleas were a staple of conventional renaissance love poetry. ... "Just so much honor when thou yield'st to me, Will waste, as this flea's death took life from thee (lines 25-26)" explains that the physical act of love between the speaker and his love will not hurt her honor. ... The reader's personal response comes from previous experiences in life or from other literature. ...

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It is fair to say that John Donne is acknowledged for his explorations beyond physical aspects in life during the period of the Renaissance. ... Techniques are just one of the elements that make up Donne's unique style in Renaissance poetry. ...

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Browning chose the Renaissance as the historical setting of many of his poems because it was a time of great energy and change. ... In Pippa, Browning develops a poetic form that displays that mixture of good and evil, of the beautiful and the ugly which so distinguishes his vision of life. ... Set in Florence of the Renaissance it tells of a licentious monk known for his naturalist style of painting. ...

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Poets say that poetry is a way to look at the individual and collective experience of life. ... In "Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes, it seems as if he is writing from the perspective of a local during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, who finally has the ability to dream of a better life, but does not achieve it. ... Perhaps the dream brings you down like a heavy load, never letting a person accept their duties of life. ... He helped shape the Harlem Renaissance, an eruption of African-American cultural expression in that section of New York City in the 1920s. ... In the play the chara...

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McKay also spent time writing a variety of subjects inluding love and went in detail about his past life living in Jamaica. ... His viewpoints and achievements set the tone for Harlem Renaissance and earned him a lot of respect from the younger black poets of the time (poets.org). ... McKay stresses the fact that he feels African Americans should be educated and be sucessful in life. An example of this is in the quote "I knew her self was not in that strange place," implying that he knows she can make something better of her life. ... "The Harlem Dancer" is a poem written by Claude McKay ...

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McKay also spent time writing a variety of subjects inluding love and went in detail about his past life living in Jamaica. ... His viewpoints and achievements set the tone for Harlem Renaissance and earned him a lot of respect from the younger black poets of the time (poets.org). ... McKay stresses the fact that he feels African Americans should be educated and be sucessful in life. An example of this is in the quote "I knew her self was not in that strange place," implying that he knows she can make something better of her life. ... "The Harlem Dancer" is a poem written by Claude McKay ...

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Toru Dutt was a product of 19th century Bengali Renaissance. ... Toru Dutt was greatly influenced by her father in her life. ... Her life was fraught with many tragedies. ... Harihar Das in Life and Letters of Toru Dutt describes Toru as a rare genius for her capacity to imbibe foreign languages: In all her capacity too brief life she mastered Sanskrit and wrote in French and English with a grace and an individual distinction which has given her rank among the authentic voices of western literature. ... It is the tragedy of her life that marks her poems with a neoromantic tinge. ...

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Truly one of the nineteenth century's Renaissance women, Francis Ellen Watkins Harper was a poet, novelist, essayist, journalist, abolitionist, feminist, Christian writer, and temperance and women's rights organizer. ... The irony of this poem is present from the very beginning where the reader can infer the tragic irony of a man, whose hard life had been given new purpose by his search for freedom, but he dies just before he can reach it. ... In one part of the poem Hayden uses a hymn that says, "Jesus Saviour Pilot Me/Over Life's Tempestuous Sea/ We pray that Thou wilt ...

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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. ... The Winter 1996 number of The Malahat Review is a tribute to her life and work. ...

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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. ... 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 the 18th Sonnet, Shakespeare tells us that the relationship between art and life is this: each art form, in its own wonderfully unique way, has the ability of of capturing, and ...

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The poet uses repetition of the words numberless, life, age, and renew throughout the poem to provide emphasis on each word. ... From modern poetry to poetry from the Renaissance, love still encompasses the same emotions. ...

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The pastoral mode is the hallmark of the renaissance style and sonnet. ... In pastoral poetry, this is portrayed in a way that you would expect the shepherd's to be better suited to the upper class of society as opposed to surrounded by hills, swamps and other realistic, rustic life places. ... However, it is evident that the material aspects override the natural beauties in life and they often go unnoticed. ... It is removed from the excesses and corruptions of daily life, and chooses natural over artificial pleasures. ... There are actual living creatures mentioned in the poem display...

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A group of artists and poets, the pre-Raphaelites shared a conviction that art had become corrupt during the Renaissance, beginning with Raphael, and was in decline there after. ... Personal and professional movements in his life were much the cause. ... Yeats became heavily focussed on new occult speculations, his personal life resolved by marriage, he began writing exceedingly metaphysical poetry. ... Caught in the "sensual music" of life, they ignore "Monuments of unaging intellect" art work, philosophy and religion, all the non-physical imaginative products of man. ... It stands for th...

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Those contradictions touched upon practically every sphere of social life and only deepened in the early 20th century. ... They also encouraged changes in social life as a result of the development of the social consciousness of people. ... In 1906 he was admitted to Harvard University, where he studied philosophy and European literature, mainly of the Renaissance period. ... Hulme, and lasted through his life. ... His poems of the 30-es and the 40-es ("Journey of the Magi-, "Animula-, "Ash Wednesday-, "Marina-, "Four Quartets-) are imbued with yearning for the lost harmony of life. ...

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I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. ... In order to better analyze this poem, it is necessary to know a little about the author because his work is pretty much close to his life and own experiences. ... Hughes, who claimed Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his primary influences, is particularly known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties. ... His life and work were enormously important in shaping the artistic contributions of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. ...

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I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. ... In order to better analyze this poem, it is necessary to know a little about the author because his work is pretty much close to his life and own experiences. ... Hughes, who claimed Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his primary influences, is particularly known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties. ... His life and work were enormously important in shaping the artistic contributions of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. ...

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Poets during the English Renaissance of the 14th century began to construct poems referred to as sonnets. ... On May 22, 1938 Ginsberg reflected upon his life. ... Upon entering high school, Ginsberg escaped his decaying home life by diving into his studies. ... However his life lacked direction. ... It was not until Ginsberg reached the age of thirteen that his mother illness would take hold of Ginsberg's life. ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publica...

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