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  2. We Wear the Mask - Wikipedia

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    The poem is written from a "we" point of view, which represents the "black folk collective", according to Braxton. [5] Braxton considers "We Wear the Mask" to be a protest poem which showed "strong racial pride". [6] Across the three stanzas, the world is unaware of the struggle of black people.

  3. Fire and Ice (poem) - Wikipedia

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    "Fire and Ice" is a short poem by Robert Frost that discusses the end of the world, likening the elemental force of fire with the emotion of desire, and ice with hate. It was first published in December 1920 in Harper's Magazine [1] and was later published in Frost's 1923 Pulitzer Prize-winning book New Hampshire. "Fire and Ice" is one of Frost ...

  4. Quqnūs - Wikipedia

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    The publication of Quqnūs and, shortly afterwards, the continuing articles entitled "The Value of Emotions in Artists' Lives" had a profound effect on the growth of She'r-e Nimaa'i. [5] In Quqnūs, Nima Yoshij transforms his poetry and tends to social symbolism. Before that, his poems included romanticism, realism and symbolism. [6]

  5. 80 uplifting quotes when anxiety is getting the best of you - AOL

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    Quotes about overcoming anxiety “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived ...

  6. In a Station of the Metro - Wikipedia

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    "In a Station of the Metro" is an Imagist poem by Ezra Pound published in April 1913 [1] in the literary magazine Poetry. [2] In the poem, Pound describes a moment in the underground metro station in Paris in 1912; he suggested that the faces of the individuals in the metro were best put into a poem not with a description but with an "equation".

  7. Edgar A. Guest - Wikipedia

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    After he began at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then a reporter, his first poem appeared on 11 December 1898. He became a naturalized citizen in 1902. For 40 years, Guest was widely read throughout North America, and his sentimental, optimistic poems were in the same vein as the light verse of Nick Kenny, who wrote syndicated columns during the same decades.

  8. Poetry of Maya Angelou - Wikipedia

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    Angelou was the first African-American woman and living poet selected by Sterling Publishing, who placed 25 of her poems in a volume of their Poetry for Young People series in 2004. [23] In 2009, Angelou wrote " We Had Him ", a poem about Michael Jackson , which was read by Queen Latifah at his funeral. [ 24 ]

  9. Poems by Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia

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    "Spirits of the Dead" was first titled "Visits of the Dead" when it was published in the 1827 collection Tamerlane and Other Poems. The title was changed for the 1829 collection Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems. The poem follows a dialogue between a dead speaker and a person visiting his grave. The spirit tells the person that those who ...