Biography Of Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur is a well renowned rapper and has had hit singles all over the world. What most people dont know is that he didnt only write rap songs, he wrote poetry as well. Maybe rap songs are just poems with a beat, but his poems are nothing like his rap songs, his poems say a lot more. Tup....
Death and Transfiguration
Alexander Lawrence Poseys Ode to Sequoyah, Paul Laurence Dunbars Frederick Douglass and Walt Whitmans When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomd are three very different poems by three very different poets that have one thing in common: each takes as its subject the death....
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
Born: April 4, 1928
St. Louis, Missouri
Occupation:
Novelist/Poet
Nationality:
United States
Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Johnson April 4, 1928) is an American poet, memoirist, actress and an important figure in the American Civil Ri....
Paul Laurence Dunbar - The Sport of the Gods
A Sudden Twist of Fate
Born in Dayton, Ohio in 1872, Paul Laurence Dunbar entered the world as the son of two former slaves. At the tender age of six, Dunbar eagerly began to write poetry. While considering this gift, which Dunbar discovered at an early age, one may infer that Dunbar cho....
Paul Lawerence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar: One of the Greats
To have such a short life, Paul Laurence Dunbar and his poetry have had an extremely large impact on American society in the late 1800s. Dunbar penned a large body of dialect poems, English poems, essays, novels and short stories before....