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90A Poem About A Monet Painting 'Le Jardin'
France is a lovely, beautiful country. The language is poetic, the people are intriguing, the food is superb and the countryside is filled with flowers and trees and lovely landscapes, perfect for a Monet...
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80The Ingredients of Good Haiku
I've done a fair bit of haiku writing over the years, even recently having had a series of designer art pieces built around 30 of my haiku. Even so, I know that I have a long way to go before I can say I am...
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72Yusef Kommunyakaa's "Facing It"
Yusef Kommunyakaa's Emotional Response Surrounding the Vietnam Memorial Yusef Komunyakaa emphasizes his ethnicity at the very beginning of his poem "Facing It" in the first lines: "My black face fades,/hiding...
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83Why I hate homework
http://www.scalzi.com/Here's a little something I had written based on the writing of the Declaration of Independence about how I detest... homework. As it is natural for an individual to wish to sever...
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78100 Word Examples of Onomatopoeia
In the Bat Man movies and TV series, when Robin and Bat Man would fight their enemies, onomatopoeia words would be used to express their actions. Words like: KABOOM, BANG, POW, WHACK, WHAM, BOINK, POP......
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72Writing Prompts - Exercise Your Inner Poet
Give your inner poet a good workout with these writing prompts and exercises!
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61Shadows in pop art to the present
Shadows also had an important role in the paintings of the second half of the 20th century, when the triumph of Pop Art occurred, in the international artistic world of the sixties. Andy Warhol and Roy...
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66A Few Father's Day Poems From Kids Without Dad's
All Father's Day poetry isn't sweet and cute. In a world that faces many problems, and many obstacles, sometimes people get hurt and many times it's the children. Here we share with you a few...
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72How the Romantics Understood Poetic Individualism and Universal Human Experience
Poetry cannot escape the poet. No art evades its artist for the two are forever joined; art is the subjective response of its creator. The beauty of this individualism releases the author to fashion his...
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77Why is poetry important?
Remember the scene in the movie Contact when the Jodi Foster character is being swirled through space? The craft she is in pauses between wormholes and she stares at the vast and imponderable beauty of the...
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