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  2. Alice Dunbar Nelson - Wikipedia

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    Alice Dunbar Nelson (July 19, 1875 – September 18, 1935) was an American poet, journalist, and political activist. Among the first generation of African Americans born free in the Southern United States after the end of the American Civil War, she was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance.

  3. Carnivalesque - Wikipedia

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    The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1559) The Carnivalesque is a literary mode that subverts and liberates the assumptions of the dominant style or atmosphere through humor and chaos. It originated as "carnival" in Mikhail Bakhtin's Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics and was further developed in Rabelais and His ...

  4. Poetry analysis - Wikipedia

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    A writer learning the craft of poetry might use the tools of poetry analysis to expand and strengthen their own mastery. [4] A reader might use the tools and techniques of poetry analysis in order to discern all that the work has to offer, and thereby gain a fuller, more rewarding appreciation of the poem. [5]

  5. John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt - Wikipedia

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    There are various lyrics to the song. For example (in the following version) the verse is first repeated normally (followed with the last line "Da-da-da"). The volume verses are repeated four times (often while altering the volume or pitch).

  6. Ogden Nash - Wikipedia

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    Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote more than 500 pieces.With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New York Times to be the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry.

  7. Grotesque body - Wikipedia

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    The grotesqueness in the carnival is seen as the abundance and large amount of food consumed by the body. There is much emphasis put on the mouth (where the body can be entered). Eating, drinking, burping from excess, etc. is all done through the mouth. Rabelais uses the Carnival to refer to politics and critique the world based on human anatomy.

  8. Faschingsschwank aus Wien - Wikipedia

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    Faschingsschwank aus Wien (Carnival Scenes from Vienna or Carnival Jest from Vienna), Op. 26, is a solo piano work by Robert Schumann. He began composition of the work in 1839 in Vienna . He wrote the first four movements in Vienna, and the last on his return to Leipzig .

  9. J. Neil Garcia - Wikipedia

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    Garcia has authored several poetry collections and works in literary and cultural criticism. [2]In 1996, Garcia was the recipient of a Philippine National Book Award, winning Best in Literary Criticism for his work on Philippine Gay Culture: The Last Thirty Years (1996).