began his career as an individual white rapper. Not many white people are able to succeed in the rap industry‚ but Eminem has proved everyone wrong. He is now one of the most talked about persons on the earth. His lyrics offend some people‚ this sparks controversy and censorship. His lyrics containing things such as drugs‚ alcohol‚ death‚ homosexuals‚ sex and suicide. In some of his songs he includes lyrical slander towards bands like NSYNC‚ Christina Aguilera‚ Backstreet Boys‚ Brittney Spears and Puff
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subway—again‚ the ethnicity of those involved is not made explicit—“but the son of a bitch kept walking.” Mentally stimulating‚ thought-provoking‚ and a plethora of emotions are all that come to mind when thinking of Rankine’s CITIZEN: An American Lyric. However‚ one word that summarizes the work greatly would be‚ important. Although citizen was written long before any of the recent current events‚ it is utmost relevant for those who have been keeping a blind eye to the history of violence and hate
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Poems can have many interpretations when it comes to breaking the piece down to find its meaning. "Alone"‚ by Edgar Allan Poe‚ directly and indirectly presents Poe’s actual feelings towards his childhood. Poe introduces an adult speaker‚ which represents him‚ who is recalling his childhood. He uses a somber tone to describe his sorrow of feeling like he did not belong and he reasons about what loneliness and isolation did to him and compares it to a storm and a mountain. Edgar Allen Poe used his
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Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe was an American author‚ poet‚ editor‚ and literary critic. He started off writing poems and then books. He experienced so many tragedies in his life that his writings got darker. His writing was influenced by the loss of so many loved ones‚ his unstable love life and his alcohol abuse. His horror stories are some of the scariest stories ever written. Edgar Poe was born on January 19‚ 1809 in Boston Massachusetts. His father abandoned the family and his mother died
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“First Poem for You” is a poem by written by Kim Addonizio‚ an American poet. This poem “First Poem for You” is a closed-form poem but written as an English sonnet. The poem a person who loves the tattoos in his or her lover’s skin. At the same time the tattoos scares him or her by their permanence. The thoughtfulness and the depth of details expressed in this poem makes us conclude that the persona or speaker in this poem is a female. The speaker is certain about the permanence of the tattoos on
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Botany Bay‚ an open oceanic embayment‚[2] is located in Sydney‚ New South Wales‚ Australia‚ 13 km (8 mi) south of the Sydney central business district. Botany Bay has its source in the confluence of the Georges River at Taren Point and the Cooks River at Kyeemagh and flows 10 km (6 mi) to the east before meeting its mouth‚ the Tasman Sea‚ midpoint between La Perouse and Kurnell. The total catchment area of the bay is approximately 55 km2 (21 sq mi) and the area surrounding the bay is generally
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studies over Edgar’s work are well appreciated‚ but no one will ever truly understand him. Such different emotions‚ such pain‚ such suffering which somehow‚ mixed together created the perfect recipe for marvelous tragedies. Just as Poe wrote in his poem "The Raven" : "Deep into that darkness peering‚ long I stood there‚ wondering‚ fearing ‚ doubting‚ dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." He dreamed things that his contemporaries could not‚ in their wildest dreams‚ imagine. Imagination
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Edgar Allan Poe‚ a famous writer and poet who wrote hundreds of poems and books‚ was found dead in a ditch dead on October 7th‚ 1849. Though his death is mysterious‚ evidence shows that he most likely died from rabies. Two clues that stand out is that in the 1800’s Rabie shots weren’t invented yet and he also had symptoms of rabies. Many people argue about Poe’s death‚ but no one is absolutely sure how he died. There was never an autopsy‚ an examination to discover the cause of death or the extent
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A sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines that rhyme in a particular pattern. William Shakespeare’s sonnets were the only non-dramatic poetry that he wrote. Shakespeare used sonnets within some of his plays‚ but his sonnets are best known as a series of one hundred and fifty-four poems. The series of one hundred and fifty-four poems tell a story about a young aristocrat and a mysterious mistress. Many people have analyzed and contemplated about the significance of these “lovers”. After analysis of
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Here is an anti bullying poem written by Jon Evans: Identity–The Bully They all try to look the same all try to give themselves a name pick on the boy who is all alone just because his identity is his own what has this world come to? all this wrong that people do just for the image they want to show down the evil path they seem to go The next person you go to hurt or try to make feel like dirt instead of trying to look cool feel for the guy you make look a fool A cool identity isn’t a need let
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