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William Blake, born on November 28, 1757 in Westminster, was a romanticist poet who wrote poetry during the Industrial Revolution. He primarily lived in London and started his career as an engraver at fifteen years old. Interestingly, his poems were accompanied by engraved pictures in each original print. Later on, he built his own engraving…

Literary Analysis of “The Names” by Billy Collins In the poem “The Names” by Billy Collins many words are used to paint vivid images of themes of war and sorrow-filled family members of soldiers lost in Vietnam. In literature, words are all that an author has to express their feelings and memories. Sometimes words are…

When every pencil meant a sacrifice his parents boarded him at school in town, slaving to free him from the stony fields, the meagre acreage that bore them down. They blushed with pride when, at his graduation, they watched him picking up the slender scroll, his passport from the years of brutal toil and lonely…

“There will come soft rains” is both the title for the short story by Ray Bradbury and the poem by Sara Teasdale and the poem is embedded in the short story. The poem and short story were written in 1920 and 1950 respectively, shortly after WWI and WWII. Thus it is not surprising that both…

By reading Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use,” the reader sees poetic language throughout the entire short story. With her use of poetic language, Walker confronts the dynamics of a Black American family, “Everyday Use” gives a portrayal of strong, single black woman who raised her daughters independently. Walker deepens the descriptions in this story by intertwining…

            “Richard Cory” is one of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s most studied and analyzed poems. The poem was first published in the year 1897 as part of the volume The Children of the Night (a revision of his earlier self-published volume The Torrent and the Night Before) and showcases the author’s adeptness at combining traditional poetic…

The early 1900’s marked the beginning of movement that involved the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North; this search for a better life was called the Great Migrations Harsh segregation laws and scarce economic opportunities drove many blacks up north, where they were able…

A brave, tough, and a self-confident woman, that is who Gail White is. White claims to be a critic of the world around her and she expresses this through her poetry. In her poem “Dead Armadillos,” she points out the way the society looks at animals and how they give importance to them. Gail White…

When drafting a poem in an influential time period, a writer has many things to think about before diving into the stages of drafting They, of course, have to think about the topic, but they also have to think about how their poem, and if they want, how it proves or enlightens the individuals that…

Making decisions in life is often hard There are many ways to make a decision in life, We always have more than one choice; life is what you make it. I‘m a very passionate person; I believe everyone is equal and people should have the right to choose their own way in life After reading…