Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Emily Dickinson. American poetry refers to the poetry of the United States.It arose first as efforts by American colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional unification of the Thirteen Colonies (although a strong oral tradition often likened to poetry already existed among Native American societies). [1]
Missouri Poet Laureate David L. Harrison describes something unexpected he found after checking into a room with a fly in it.
Old English religious poetry includes the poem Christ by Cynewulf and the poem The Dream of the Rood, preserved in both manuscript form and on the Ruthwell Cross. We do have some secular poetry; in fact a great deal of medieval literature was written in verse, including the Old English epic Beowulf.
Shakespeare united the three main streams of literature: verse, poetry, and drama. To the versification of the English language, he imparted his eloquence and variety giving highest expressions with elasticity of language. The second, the sonnets and poetry, was bound in structure. He imparted economy and intensity to the language.
Poetry influences children, too, not only to learn to read but it can also make them feel more resilient because it often contains themes of strength, perseverance, and the ability to overcome ...
The Proletarian poetry is a genre of political poetry developed in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s that endeavored to portray class-conscious perspectives of the working-class. [64] Connected through their mutual political message that may be either explicitly Marxist or at least socialist , the poems are often aesthetically disparate.
Social poetry is poetry which performs a social function or contains a level of social commentary. The term seems to have first appeared as a translation from the original Spanish Poesia Socíal , used to describe the post- Spanish-civil-war poetry movement of the 1950s and 60s [ 1 ] (including poets such as Blas de Otero ).
Sylvia Plath. The Sylvia Plath effect is the phenomenon that poets are more susceptible to mental illness than other creative writers. The term was coined in 2001 by psychologist James C. Kaufman, and implications and possibilities for future research are discussed. [1]