Poetry is like music. When you read it, empty your mind, forget about every thing and enjoy it. When you write it, tell a story, paint a picture and excite the reader’s emotions. Let the reader feel something, let it be like a song that brings the listener to tears or makes the listener laugh. […]
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Tragedy has changed considerably since it was created by the ancient Greek dramatists. In The Poetics Aristotle essentially lay down a groundwork of rules for writing what he had come to view as the ideal tragedy; at the same time he give indications of how a less than ideal tragedy might be conceived. Several factors […]
Lorraine Hansberry’s play “A Raisin in the Sun” was far ahead of its time in both depicting the everyday life of black people in a way that everyone can understand and discuss the oppression that black people still felt even though strides had been taken towards civil rights. According to NPR, Hansberry shared the aims […]
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Ms. Sanaa Lathan was born in 1971 in New York City. Her name (pronounced Sa-na) is Swahili for “work of art” or “beauty.” The daughter of director Stan Lathan and Broadway actress-dancer Eleanor McCoy, Sanaa was destined to be in the business. Sanaa also took dance and gymnastics lessons to add a little diversity to […]
Beneatha the Younger, one of the few characters presented in Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun, has a unique mind from every other character: she hungers for intellectualism and thirsts for uniqueness. Her struggles to achieve these desired characteristics embody the difficulties that ambitious women – real or fictional – also face. Beneatha […]