Author Archives: Victoria C.

Entering the age of the Roaring Twenties

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Victoria C.

Arts & Culture: 1920-29: The 1920s was also not only known as the roaring twenties but also the jazz age. During this period jazz music and dance became wildly popular and played in all the dance clubs. The main places that … Continue reading →

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A Prayer for My Daughter

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Victoria C.

William Butler Yeats was, as the Norton Anthology authors state, an Irish cultural nationalist. Yeats has several different types of styles; the Irish poet, the anti-nationalist poet, and the cosmopolitan poet. Yeats is most famous for his war poems but … Continue reading →

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Reminiscing the past…

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Victoria C.

Thomas Hardy is one of the world’s most renowned poets. He was an English poet who was well-known for his war poems. He typical wrote in a style that exemplified sadness and depression. A great example of his approach to … Continue reading →

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Soft as the massacres of the Suns

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Victoria C.

Emily Dickinson is not like many other poets, she possesses individual expertise, but she does share a common characteristic with other writers. Dickinson perpetually wrote about the things that fascinated her or intrigued her. I would say that Dickinson’s work … Continue reading →

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