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. ... Olivia makes an incredible transition from the beginning of the play to the end. ...

• Word Count: 1772
• Approx Pages: 7

His poetry, spanning five decades from 1926 to 1967, reflected the changing black experience in America, from the Harlem Renaissance to the confused sixties. 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. ...

• Word Count: 1313
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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). ... In the beginning of the poem, there is a description of happiness and laughter. As I read the beginning, I assumed it was going to be about a happy, light-hearted occasion. ... The main thing that structures the poem is time because of the gradual details given about what happens from the beginning to the end. ... "The Harlem Dancer" is a poem written by Claude McKay that was written during Harlem Renaissance that took place in New ...

• Word Count: 1662
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

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). ... In the beginning of the poem, there is a description of happiness and laughter. As I read the beginning, I assumed it was going to be about a happy, light-hearted occasion. ... The main thing that structures the poem is time because of the gradual details given about what happens from the beginning to the end. ... "The Harlem Dancer" is a poem written by Claude McKay that was written during Harlem Renaissance that took place in New ...

• Word Count: 1634
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 846
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Samuel Johnson consolidated the phrase in 1779 in his critical writings "Lives of the Poets" when he noted "about the beginning of the 17th century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets". ... Donne's imagery focuses on the new (late 16th century) learning of the English renaissance and on topical discoveries and exploration. ...

• Word Count: 737
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Beginning with Virgil who adapted the pastoral by presenting the lives of the shepherd's in a more idealized way and also used it to indicate contemporary political problems. The pastoral mode is the hallmark of the renaissance style and sonnet. ... He is using nature for his own purposes by cutting down the grass to spite Juliana, which is different to simply cutting down the grass to help it grow as seen in the beginning of the collection. ...

• Word Count: 1808
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A path from romanticism to modernism. The stylistic evolution of Yeats" travels through several stages across his career. Initially as a young poet, Yeats wrote much literary ornate verse. From his first publication in 1885 he"d been much influenced by the pre-Raphaelites. A group of artists a...

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

His life and work were enormously important in shaping the artistic contributions of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. ... He then once again tries to identify himself, this time in terms of his preferences and hobbies, beginning around line 21. ...

• Word Count: 1896
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

His life and work were enormously important in shaping the artistic contributions of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. ... He then once again tries to identify himself, this time in terms of his preferences and hobbies, beginning around line 21. ...

• Word Count: 1930
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Allen Ginsberg's Motivation for writing Howl Richard Eberhart, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet of 1966, remarks, "Ginsberg's Howl ushered in a new generation." Many 20th century poets have attested to the freeing effect that Ginsberg's poetry had upon them in the late fifties. But to allege th...

• Word Count: 4095
• Approx Pages: 16
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42