I cannot describe that dream to you. ... He teaches them a song called the "Beasts of England" in which he describes his vision of social utopia on the farm in lyric form. ... Snowball and Napoleon are the most resourceful pigs and take a stand to fulfill Old Major's dream of equality. ... Each animal is distinct, as no two are alike; in her article Valerie Meyers states, "Each animal stands for a precise figure or representative type" (Meyers). ... I gave you food, and my hunters will protect you from the beast. ...

• Word Count: 1839
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers," and "Ballad of the Landlord," then, is just the start of a long chain of poems by Hughes which stand up to develop, and change the verifiable experience of African Americans into a workmanship both limpid and automatic. ... I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its sloppy chest turn all brilliant in the nightfall" - Langston Hughes This early lyric of Hughes "vouches for his tolerating trust in the satisfaction of the American perfect for dark individuals, as well as for all the seized of the area". ....

• Word Count: 1762
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

(Goetz 780) Cullen became known as a lyric poet and that an English poet mostly influenced his work named John Keats. ... Cullen believed that in order to be a great poet you had to master and accept standard poetic forms, tropes, and meters Americans inherited from European traditions. ... He accomplished a lot because he was determined and allowed no one to stand between him and what he wanted and was going to achieve. ...

• Word Count: 1342
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Some retailers refuse to carry CDs with "Parental Advisory Stickers", a few also go as far as to make it known to labels and artists that if the CD comes to their shelves with a "dirty" word, a "controversial" cover, or an "explicit" lyric it will not be allowed on the shelves. ... You also may remember when hard-core rapper Ice-T wrote the song cop killer. ... I always tell them that if you want to keep listening to the music that you enjoy, starting today you have to learn to fight back. If you don't fight for your own freedom, no one is going to give it to you." ... There will always ...

• Word Count: 1606
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Later in the poem Taras asks his nation not to give up and stand up for themselves, because they need to fight altogether, hand by hand for their happiness. ... He was above all a lyric poet who was always disturbed by the anger, violence, weeping, cursing and then speaking with a voice of the greatest degree tenderness. ... At one point you hear a thunder of morally right anger, then words of heart-breaking tenderness, then again outbursts of bitter sarcasm, and then words of love and affection. ... In the final period of poetry Taras always wrote about encouraging light shining in the fu...

• Word Count: 1812
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In 1855, twelve of his works were published in a collection entitled "Leaves of Grass", which stands today as one of America's most popular literary works. ... In "Proud Music of the Storm" Whitman composes something that appears to be a lyric in an opera (Composers! ... And you, sweet singers of old lands-Sopani! ... To you a new bard, caroling free in the west, Obeisant, sends his love."). ...

• Word Count: 1470
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

So can you really say what you want to say under protection of your First Amendment rights? That all depends on where you say it, and how you say it. ... When the novelist Barbara Kingsolver says "the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and shoving the constitution through a paper shredder" the statement is safeguarded. ... So can you say libel against a person? ...

• Word Count: 1987
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Possessed of probing psychological insight, Auden also had a supremely lyric gift. ... This poem also expresses that government makes it seem that everyone else is doing the "right thing", so you must follow in their footsteps and if you do so your reward is a happy and fulfilled life with all the comforts of the modern man. The standards are constantly changing so that you will never reach the optimum point, therefore you must always strive to improve. ...

• Word Count: 2321
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Yeats' poetics became fixed heavily in lyric tradition during this early part of his career and late era of romanticism. ... It is a pivotal poem in Yeats' stylistic evolution (the tadpole lost its "tail" if you will) and perfectly illustrates his "new" conversational manner while holding a few lashings of the dreamy, idilic, romantic period of his poetic conception. ... It stands for the unity of all aspects of life. ...

• Word Count: 2111
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School