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Gwendolyn Brooks' Poetry, 2002.
A look at the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks with focus on "The Chicago Defender Sends A Man To Little Rock".
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 7 sources, £ 37.95
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This six-page junior level paper focuses on the life and work of famous black American poet and author, Gwendolyn Brooks with special emphasis on her poem "The Chicago Defender sends a man to the Little rock". Brooks was an immensely talented African American writer and poet and she was deeply concerned about the plight and suffering of her community in the United States, therefore most of her work has focuses on that subject.
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Characters in the Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, 2003.
An analysis of character usage in the poetry of African-American poet, Gwendolyn Brooks.
3,155 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 65.95
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This paper shows how Gwendolyn Brooks uses the daily experiences and struggles of her characters to comment on important issues, such as the societal views of women, race, and the poverty found in the inner city through her poetry. The paper looks at the poems, "The Hunchback Girl," "Sadie and Maud," and "The Mother," among others.
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"Brooks describes a similar longing for unfulfilled dreams in her poem "kitchenette building". In the poem she describes the hardships of daily life in a black urban environment. It begins with "We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan, / Grayed in, and gray. "Dream" makes a giddy sound, not strong / Like 'rent,' 'feeding a wife,' 'satisfying a man'" (Brooks 20). The terms "things" and "dry hours" portray the emptiness of their place in society, while "involuntary plan" describes the speaker's disappointment with life and the ache of responsibilities in place of forgotten dreams (Melhern 22)".
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Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, 2004.
This paper examines how Brooks' white audience impacted her writing.
2,712 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 68.95
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The paper discusses how Brooks' white audience affected her writing. The paper also considers whether her work was more geared toward these white readers, or rather toward a black audience.
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"When Gwendolyn Brooks began publishing her poetry, her readers were in for a surprise. Appearing mostly in magazines aimed at upper and middle white audiences, Brooks' poems revealed the inner world of urban blacks, a realm previously unknown to white readers. Indeed much of the critical reaction to Brooks' poetry fixated on her race as a means of judgment; critics seemed to praise the work in spite of the fact that Brooks was an African American woman."
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Gwendolyn Brooks' Message, 2006.
An analysis of the poem "Song in the Front Yard" by Gwendolyn Brooks.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, £ 25.95
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This paper examines a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks' "Song in the Front Yard" and explore its peculiar construction; use or non-use of poetic devices and its underlying message. In particular, the paper delves into the manner in which Brooks carefully uses her art to amplify her message and how her narrator pining for freedom encapsulates the yearnings of young female children and of African Americans more generally, in 1940s America.
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"The following paper briefly examines a poem, "A Song in the Front Yard", by Gwendolyn Brooks. In particular, the paper looks at the structure of the poem, the poetic devices employed and the underlying message of the poem (at least in the view of this writer). In the final analysis, the message of the poem seems to be about the allure of the "night life" and (more subtly) about how Gwendolyn Brooks wants to explore the world around her in a way that most young girls - certainly African-American girls - could not in the days of her youth. To begin with, the structure of Brook's poem contributes mightily to its power. For one thing, three of the four stanzas in the poem are comprised of four lines, with only the third stanza (comprised of eight) breaking this pattern (Brooks 1993)."
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Gwendolyn Brooks, 2005.
This paper analyzes Gwendolyn Brooks' attitude toward prevailing social attitudes, moral beliefs and cultural positions of her time.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 16.95
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The paper provides an analysis of poet Gwendolyn Brooks' attitude toward prevailing social attitudes, moral beliefs and cultural positions of her time. The paper cites several of Brooks' poems as examples and explores their relation to the Civil Rights Movement.
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"In his influential sociological study, "The Lonely Crowd" Riesman summarizes the content of American culture in the decade after World War II. He cites the inner-directed attitude toward generalized but nonetheless inescapably destined goals. (Riesman) More pervasive, he argues, is the attitude of the other-directed person who takes his life cues not from his inner spark but from others. The other-directed do not so much seek others' adulation as respect and more than the respect, the affection of an amorphous and shifting though contemporary jury of peers."
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"The Mother" by A. Gwendolyn Brooks, 2002.
An analysis of the poem "The Mother" by A. Gwendolyn Brooks dealing with a woman's regret for having abortions.
1,020 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 25.95
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In Gwendolyn Brooks? poem, "The Mother", the narrator expresses a reluctant regret and a desire for the children to which she did not give birth as a result of abortion. The paper analyzes the poem and its use of tone, diction, and imagery. It finds that the speaker is alternately regretful, self-recriminating, and motherly in her reactions to her unborn children. Taken together, Brooks? powerful shifts in tone, diction, and imagery all serve to highlight the narrator?s longing, and tentative regrets over children that were never born.
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"Taken together, the changing tone throughout ?The Mother? helps to expresses the narrator?s reluctant regret over abortion, and a desire for the children she did not give birth to. It is her very changes in tone and emotion throughout the poem that help to highlight her confusion and regret. She is by turns apologetic, regretful, reproachful and frustrated in her attempts to explain herself."
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Gwendolyn Brooks, 2002.
The life of a poet.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, £ 18.95
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This paper expounds on the life and nature of the poet Gwendolyn Brooks.
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Bronzeville: Brooks' Two Visions, 2003.
A comparison of Gwendolyn Brooks' "Street in Bronzeville" and "Bronzeville Boys and Girls".
1,840 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 45.95
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This paper compares two of Gwendolyn Brooks' books of poetry: "Street in Bronzeville" and "Bronzeville Boys and Girls". It examines the way in which each poem depicts black life and the influence of Bronzeville on Brooks' writing.
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"With her stunning use of form and language, Gwendolyn Brooks is often considered one of the most innovative American poets of the twentieth century. More importantly Brooks stands out as a post-Harlem Renaissance writer who speaks honestly and passionately .."
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Elements Of Poetry, 2004.
This paper offers a brief examination of the use of narration and dialect in Langston Hughes' "Negro" and Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool".
904 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 22.95
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The paper examines the use of narration and dialect in Langston Hughes' "Negro", and Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool". The paper discusses elements of poetry found in both poems. The paper also looks at differences in diction in both poems.
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"Elements of Poetry. Poetry is created through the use of various rhetorical devices that have no inherent meaning within themselves, but when used within a poem create meaning through the feelings and emotions which they convey to the reader. Thus an examination of a couple of these rhetorical devices within two well-known poems will offer insight into that which stirs these particular emotions within the audience."
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Middle Eastern Poetry, 2008.
This paper discusses Middle Eastern poetry, noting that such poetry tends to concern the conflict experienced around the poets.
2,056 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 45.95
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In this article, the writer notes that Middle Eastern poetry is often peppered with honest assessments of the physical and emotional turmoil of conflict. The writer discusses that poetry in the Middle East tends to be a voice of record, in stylistic descriptions of the conflicts of mind, body and spirit that demonstrate a life or many lives in the turmoil of conflict and change. The writer maintains that many Middle Eastern authors feel a fierce obligation to write not only about the joy and struggle of writing poetry but also the trails and conflicts of their nations and the people whom they have known and whom they have imagined to have been deeply affected by all. The writer concludes that in the works of Ozkan Mert (Turkish) Taha Muhammad Ali (Palastinian) Eliaz Cohen (Israeli) and Aharon Shabtai (Israeli) one can locate the human drama of living in strife as well as the pleasure of poetic expression, without any real difficulty and with a great sense of wonder that is expressed through poetry and the wondrous human mind.
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"Each of these writers are expressing the nature of self, the body of self and the nature of political and social upheaval, as it is expressive of the self and the whole. Each may be writing from an opposing side, but clearly their views are not opposing. Their voice is one that asks those who would choose to subvert them to listen to their voice as the voice of the individual seeking individual reconciliation in the face of conflict. The Middle Eastern conflict is a constant point of discussion in every arena, those offering solutions and those offering greater strife, and the words of these poets exemplify that the voice rarely heard is the voice of the people, the individual bodies and souls who live every day facing the results of conflict and the candor of legislative results.
"Ozkan Mert probably best exemplifies the passion and power of poetry, as a simple form that can convey a meaning beyond the nature of it length or even it s breath. Mert in his poem Whose on the Side of Poetry expresses the fear that some have of poetry, as a tool used by people to express the nature of strife, often when many wish that such strife not become public knowledge."
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What is Poetry?, 2006.
The paper looks at how Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his "Philosophic Definitons of a Poem and Poetry" defines poetry.
736 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 18.95
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The paper relates that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's approach to defining poetry is a combination of an examination of the purpose of poetry as well as the humanistic qualities of the poet. The paper discusses Coleridge's idea that the conglomeration of the human condition is necessary in order to manifest poetry. The paper explains this to mean that the full force of the heart and soul is necessary in order to create true art.
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"Throughout the ages, philosophers have attempted to answer the question, what is poetry. Plato, Aristotle and Longinus contributed fine essays on this topic. During the Romantic era, a redefinition of the art of poet occurred, mandating a re-evaluation of what poetry is. The Romanic author and poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge endeavors to answer this question in his essay, Philosophic Definitons of a Poem and Poetry. Coleridge's approach is a combination of an examination of the purpose of poetry as well as the humanistic qualities of the poet. Coleridge examines what poetry is, what a poet is and what the cumulative result of answering these two questions."
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Poetry in Elementary School Curricula, 2004.
This paper discusses ideas for the integration of poetry and the creative energy poetry can engender into non-poetic school learning environments.
2,115 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 47.95
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This paper explains that poetry is a tool to stimulate creative problem solving, build an ability for creative expression, help a child develop literacy skills, and learn other subjects through the imaginative, resourceful use of poetry. The author points out that a 'persona poem' is a poem that is written in the first person; the writer imagines that he or she is an animal, a movie star, a politician, or anything or anyone he or she is not. The paper stresses that innovation and doing the unexpected are extremely important for elementary school teachers when coaxing students to love and use poetry throughout their curricula.
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Introduction
The American Poetry and Literacy Project
The Persona Poem
Using Persona Poetry in Social Studies, Music, Math, Science, and Art
Conclusion
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"To move to another area of study, math; the student could write a persona poem pretending to be Albert Einstein?s pencil sharpener. Imagine all the work that sharpener must do ? since Einstein was said to go through a number of pencils each day during his mathematical research and formula writing ? and imagine all the grinding sounds and shavings, too. Or, alternatively, what would it be like to be the number ?1?? Would that be a grand feeling of winning (?number one? can mean the best, the first, the top choice), or would being ?number one? seem like a person had a long way to go to get to ?50??"
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Metaphysical Poetry- Characteristics,Types and Major Poets, 2005.
A discussion of the origins and nature of metaphysical poetry.
2,728 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 58.95
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This paper examines the origins of metaphysical poetry and its characteristics. Poetic terms are defined and the types of metaphysical poetry are discussed. The major poets of this genre are introduced. Although the paper considers metaphysical poetry in a positive light, criticism of the movement is also presented.
Introduction
Characteristics of metaphysical poetry
A.Delight in Novel Thought and Expression
B.Far-Fetched Images
C. Affectation and Hyperbole
D. Obscurity
E. Learning
Types of Metaphysical Poetry
A. Amorous Poetry
B. Religious Poetry
Sources of Metaphysical Poetry
Poets of the Metaphysical World
A. John Donne
B. George Halbert
C. Andrew Marvell
D. Henry Vaughn
VI. Conclusion
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"Metaphysics or the branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of existence, truth and knowledge based on abstract reasoning, was first applied to poetry by Dr.Samuel Johnson. He borrowed it from Dryden's derogatory phrase about Donne-"He affects the metaphysics." Dryden criticized Donne for his excessive obscurity and Dr.Samuel Johnson later used the term 'metaphysical' to describe the specific poetic method used by poets like Donne."
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Nostalgia in Romantic Poetry, 1996.
An examination of the use of nostalgia in the poetry of the romantic era (1768 - 1839), focusing in particular on the poetry of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
1,951 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 44.95
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This paper argues that nostalgia in poetry can be considered a particular kind of literary device, through which it is possible to gain some degree of insight into the whole ideology on which the romantic movement was based. Through an analysis of the poetry of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, it looks at how the romantics mourn the fleeting nature of time and look back to the golden age of childhood - which can only be recaptured through nostalgia. It shows how nostalgia allows the poets the opportunity to not only recapture the past, but to manipulate and control it and how the nostalgia displayed in romantic poetry is, then, a tool of the intellect and a calculated attempt to make sense of a confused world of impressions and feelings, to bring order where previously there was only chaos.
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"Coleridge?s is an extreme model of nostalgia. Casting his mind back to childhood, he finds that the child he once was is also indulging in nostalgic thoughts of a still deeper past; the past he may have experienced even before birth, on a far different plane. This is the blissful, innocent world which becomes the ideal for all present existence, and the child who can still recall it, and imaginatively re-inhabit that world through nostalgia becomes, to the romantic mind, like a visionary without language or the proper means of expressing his recollection."
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