During the industrialisation age, focus was on city life, materialism, poverty and oppression. ... These poets yearned for a deep and genuine love of nature and a simple life. ... He seemed to find life inferior to art because it is not constant and unchanging and it is understandable that he would find stability appealing considering his brief and tumultuous life. ... After reading this poem, one must ask- was so much of his time spent creating this fictional urn, only to inform society of his final analogy of his time on earth? ... Another text which deals with the enduring qualities of ...

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But time is tied to the wrist or kept in a box, ticking with impatience. ... By using the word 'mechanical' Raine is defining books as void or lacking of thought or emotion. ... Time is personified as it "[ticks] with impatience". ... To depict the mechanical machine as "snoring" brings it to life in this vivid imagery, although life in a spiritual form. ... The alien has shown us, through seeing these impediments for the first time, an appreciation of something long known beautiful, but now clearly seen for the first time....

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But time is tied to the wrist or kept in a box, ticking with impatience. ... By using the word 'mechanical' Raine is defining books as void or lacking of thought or emotion. ... Time is personified as it "[ticks] with impatience". ... To depict the mechanical machine as "snoring" brings it to life in this vivid imagery, although life in a spiritual form. ... The alien has shown us, through seeing these impediments for the first time, an appreciation of something long known beautiful, but now clearly seen for the first time....

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Still haunting after a century, The Raven remains one of the most popular poems of all time. ... How the poet's life is reflected in this work will be investigated here. ... Even when his mother was alive, as an actress, she had no time for her son (Quinn 20). ... Who is the visitor but the reader, come themselves to seek solace amidst curious books of lore. ... Life had not been kind to him, and he had not been kind to life. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Porter then brings a time scale into the poem "This announcement will take two and a quarter minutes to make". ... The time scale shows us exactly how dangerous the bomb is. ... "In my fallout shelter I have enough food some books games calor gas and candles. ... We also find out that he is sort of obsessed about keeping his things to himself, "under lock and key, the tools necessary for life after death". ... The next verse also uses the words "one fine day", this proves that he really is thinking that life after the bomb will be better. ...

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As a child Dove was always interested in literature, "...the young Dove had a particular fondness and passion for books, and said that her parents encouraged her to read anything that she pleased.""... (Reviews) whose "...time spans from 1900-1969..."" ... Dove says that she spent most of her time as Poet Laureate " educating young people in matters of poetry and bringing real poetry into real life... ... The chorus of voices that have shaped her life are the voices that are unheard elsewhere. ... Rafael Trujillo, the dictator at the time, selected for execution twenty thousand Haitian blacks...

• Word Count: 1934
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

By the time he died Dransfield was something of a cult hero. ... This time in history was responsible for a new breed of people, these people chose to live an alternative life style, primarily in objection to living in a society fueled by commercialism and rapid change. ... Although Dransfield did also take drugs he was not as common as other fellow Australian's who chose to live an alternative life as he did not acquire the attitude that total ignorance to a time of hardship will make life more blissful. ... After publishing only three books of poems Michael Dransfield was a...

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• Grade Level: High School

He one of America's leading 20th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. ... The path symbolizes an extreamly hard choice in Frost's life. ... The topic of death in many of Frost's poems is fast becoming a major literary topic found in many books, as well as something we hear oh too much about throught the news and media. ... Also when he is near the woods, he is far away from the city, and the city is like a synonym for life, one of the opposites of life. ... The woods are now a symbol of life, a change from the previous example, and the frozen lake, devo...

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• Grade Level: High School

Known as one of the most "confessional" poets of her time, Anne Sexton was also one of the most criticized. ... Despite this, Anne went on to win many awards and go down as one of the best poets of all time. ... During this time Anne was also educated at Earland Junior College from 1947- 1948 (Twentieth Century American Literature 2). ... The chronic mental illness that controlled Anne's life was the anguished center of her family's life (Linda Sexton 1). ... Through out her career, Anne wrote not only poetry but also short stories and books for children as well. ...

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She has written many books and poems that have given her great success. ... Her life is blissful now, but it wasn't always perfect. ... Angelou accomplished many things in her life. ... How mind and body do not reach their apex at the same time. By the time a person gets old enough to have a spiritual realization of who they are their body is already declining (Angelou 11). ...

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Wright was uneasy in the time before the murder. ... In just two lines it gives the reader an image of the beauty of humans and life. ... This shows literary merit because this message can still be found in books today as well. ... It shows that we are never truly happy with what we have in life. ... It is saying that humans try to find a deeper meaning in everything in life. ...

• Word Count: 1594
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• Grade Level: High School

He did not have much opportunity for education in his early life. ... Whitman at one time accepted a job with a New Orleans newspaper, and in doing so exposed himself to a great deal of the country. ... In short, Whitman lived trough the nation's heroic age, at a time when people had to be (or seemed to be) a little more than life-size to accomplish all the deeds they undertook. ... As biographers have found, it is difficult to write the life of Whitman without writing instead the life and times of his book. ... His form was similar to "thought-rhythm", or "parallelism", which also can be...

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• Grade Level: High School

Dickinson's father was a prominent politician in Amherst and enjoyed an exciting public life and much popularity in their community. ... She did not agree witht he religion of her father, so he began to start censoring the books she read because they could potentially draw her away from his religion. ... This is when she started to live a life of seclusion. ... Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in 1931 and spent the first years of her life in Ohio. ... For example, when I read her novel Sula, I had a hard time keeping all the characters straight, especially since it jumped ...

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It is unfortunate that she was born into a time period where she had to be so delicate with her choices. ... "We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power For have not some books continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles and cities have been decayed and demolished?" Bradstreet's talent far surpassed the power that ruled during her time. ... This is very similar to Bradstreet's life. She is a contradiction of everyone from her time...

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He wrote many books filled with his amazing poetry, including "Sympathy" and "We Wear Masks"(Miller 392). ... He is saying the past memories still haunt him in the present time and those memories will never fade. ... I think his life, as a slave, is what made him such a famous poet. He was praised both by the prominent literary critics of his time and his literary contemporaries. His poems seem as if they compare to his real life and feelings toward slavery and life in general. ...

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Slip into this man's shoes and wonder how it would feel to live a life such as his. ... In fact, Maya Angelou knows first hand what it feels like to be alone in life, living between homes though out her adolescence and getting to where she is in life on her own. ... This was a brilliantly timed as Angelou juxtaposes between "storm clouds" and the "reader's life" because at this point, Angelou has fully touched the readers with the accumulation of all her pain and experiences throughout her life. ... Nobody can live life alone. ... When asked about an autobiograph...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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). ... It is easy for Angelou's readers to understand her work considering that she express her background and the events and activities that transpired during her time. ... According to an article by Danielle Dorky, as a writer, Maya Angelou acquired her inspiration from different authors who had written books and poems, which she used to read from her childhood (1). ... During the years when she...

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I refer to these poems as "early" because they are considered here are a selection of well known verses published in the eleven years (1913-1923) spanned by Frost's first four books: A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval, and New Hampshire. His each poem is like a journey of self-discovery, of life. ... By the end of his life he had achieved the iconic status of living legend. For Frost, poetry and life were one and the same thing. ... He knows that he will be inaccurate, at best, or hypocritical, at worst, when he holds his life up as an example. ...

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Personal and professional movements in his life were much the cause. ... They would sigh and quote with learned looks Precedents out of beautiful old books; Yet now it seems an idle trade enough. ... For artists and many others in Europe, it was a time disillusioned with values which civilization had been founded on. ... It stands for the unity of all aspects of life. ... His final works were song like and basic, but held a grave anxiety of one whose time was running out. ...

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Amy Lowell was born at a time in history which included prosperity of every kind, and new ideas. ... During her time, the first Model T Ford was produced along with the first power flight. ... From the time her parents died, she had lived in their home with the women she loved, Ada Russell. ... She later discovered the style of poetry in which she was writing was called, "Imagery" and poets in England had been writing in this style for quite some time. ... Others found her early works to be quite mundane, but felt that her later works consisting of imagery brought new life to poetry...

• Word Count: 2108
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School