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    article by Kristina Robertson, “Writing Poetry with English Language Learners,” the author highlights the benefits to writing poetry as a way for students to experiment with English without the grammatical and structural limitations of academic writing. Poetry can be used to facilitate a feeling of comfort with language without pressure. In addition to allowing them the freedom to practice English, this method also helps them feel included by eliciting poetry based on their own lives and “rich life

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    share a similar theme: Ezra Pound’s “A Few Don’ts,” Wallace Stevens’ “Of Modern Poetry,” Archibald Macleish’s “Ars Poetica,” and Marianne Moore’s “Poetry.” Each of these authors felt they had discovered superlative methods to write the most powerful poetry. However, the details and methods which each author used varied from one another. Born in 1885, Ezra pound is known as one of Modernist poetry’s biggest contributors. His poetry of the early 20th century was unconventional and controversial for its

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    Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Frost influenced my thorough love of different styles of literature, particularly poetry. To the masses, Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Frost only share job titles, but the two poets share many similarities within their writing. Personally, I read pieces from both authors over the course of my schooling experience. I admired Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken” from a young age, and that particular stole my heart since the first read. “The Raven,” became one of my favorite

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    Qiu And Xu Poetry

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    girls’ schools, though their poetry also played a role in forming the modern woman. Qiu and Xu poetry sheds light on women reading and sharing ideas, rather then doing domestic and or womanly task. The poetry shows both the hardship they faced trying to change society, but also the joy of power and freedom that accompanies education and intellectual ambition. The poetry, like the two women, fought to accomplish the same goal, but have different means of doing so. Xu poetry is more relatable to everyday

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    museum at 6pm in the evening. I went alone because I thought I can have better focus on picking a good art work. I was ready to go through all the magnificent paintings for my art museum paper. As I walked through the museum, there were colorful Indian Modern art exhibited for the occasion. They were big and vibrant. The was also a special exhibition of Tarsila Do Amaral, one of the leading Latin American Modernist artist who paint like Cubism, Futurism and expressionism. Her artworks were childlike in

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    Thomas Stearns Eliot was an eminent American poet of the twentieth century. In his early poetry, Eliot develops several characters who posses all characteristics of the modern man. However, Eliot’s personal views and poetry changed after years, as he indoctrinated to Christianity. His poems became more cheerful in tone and they started offering more propositions, instead of skepticism. Even though Eliot’s poetry experienced serious transformation, it carried similar aspects. All of his poems are intellectual

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    Robert Frost authored his poetry as if he observed metaphors in everyday encounters, bringing to life vivid visual images in the minds of readers everywhere. Frost vocalized, “Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, ‘grace’ metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides that one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another.” Frost applies metaphors, dialogue and figurative language resulting in memorable poetry described by John F. Kennedy

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    started writing poetry in his early age of eight and wrote it daily until 22. Cummings was more interested in modern poetry which ignored general principles of grammar and syntax. In his poems cummings has employed only a few keywords. Sometimes he has invented totally new words by combining the two common words. e.e.cummings had received a lot of awards in the recognition of his works in which include Dial Award, Shelley Memorial Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Harriet Monroe prize for poetry magazine and

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    Soon a generation of young poets began various experiments, which led to the creation of modern poetry. Some regarded themselves as the followers of Nima Youshij, but many, though inspired by his innovations tried to find an independent path. Fereidoon Tavallali, for instance, remained very restrained in his innovations, limiting them to a small variation of form. He usually divided his poems into verses of four hemistiches, with the second and fourth hemistich of each verse having the same rhymes

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    “Artists who innovate and challenge existing conventions have an effect on the artworld as profound as an earthquake- they change the shape as of the art landscape”. Evaluate this statement with reference to a range of artists and their works. An earthquake is a ground shaking movement initiated by a sudden movement of rock in the Earth’s crust. These movements occur along faults, which are thin zones of crushed rock dividing blocks of crust. They are caused by stress that builds up over time as

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