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405 BCE
Pericles Funeral Oration
Pericles Funeral Oration is a famous eulogy recorded by Thucydides' and spoken by Pericles. Pericles wrote this eulogy after a great loss in the Peloponnesian War. -
404 BCE
The Odyssey
The Odyssey takes place after the Trojan War. The story about a young man named Telemachus and how the greek gods sent him on a quest. -
Period: 500 to 1500
Medieval
The Medieval time period was a time of knights, warriors and endless stories on myths and legends. These stories were used from inspiration for soldiers all the way to a bed time story for children. -
Period: 1500 to
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a time for artists of all kinds to express themselves in all sorts of ways. The artists would would grow in art, poetry, literature, religion, and a bunch of other stuff. -
Period: to
Romantic Period
The Romantic period was pretty much a little renaissance re-run. It was a movement of literature, art and life styles. -
Period: to
Realism
Realism was an era where people widely and openly went against the catholic church which at that time dominated literature and art. -
Period: to
Trancendental
Trancendentalism was a philosophical movement that was created to fight against spirtitual and intellectual movements and groups of people. It originated from the Eastern side of the United States. -
Period: to
Enlightenment
The Enlightenment time period was a period of communication, science and philosophy. Many men rose to try to reason with each other and find the reason of existence and many other matters that baffled the human brain. -
Period: to
Victorian Period
Quite simply the Victorian period was the time period that Queen Victoria ruled. -
Period: to
Existentialism
Existentialism is a philosophical movement that believes in freedom of choice and individual existence. -
Period: to
Naturalsim
Naturalism, like realism, was a literary movement against the Roman Catholic church and also Victorian literature. -
A Doll's House
A Doll's House is a play that shows a woman who was used to living in a harsh and sexist enviroment known as the 1800's. She overcomes this harsh way of living at the cost of leaving her husband behind to start a new life. -
Period: to
The Bloombury Group
A cliche of popular writers that appreciated the arts. -
Period: to
Modernism
An experimental form of the arts for people to express themselves differently. -
The Second Coming
The Second coming is a poem written by William Butler Yeats who was an athieist. He wrote this play as if it was about the second coming but in reality he was mocking it. -
The Great Divorce
The Great Divorce is a book where the main character is able to visit the threshold of heaven and can see many different types of views and beliefs from people who were also visiting. -
Period: to
The Beat Generation
A group of authors that influenced america literature before WW2. -
Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart is a book that was written during the civil rights movement. It was to show that all people in Africa were not savages and to show their way of life during colonization times. -
Period: to
Post-Modernism
It's modernism, just against european philosophy. -
1000 Pieces of Gold
1000 PIeces of Gold is set in the 1800's and is about a young girl sold into prostitution. The story is about her life during this time. -
How I Got That Name
Marilyn Chin's poem is powerful at explaining how we judge and that we are given our identities. -
Shiso
Luci Tapaphonso writes a beautiful poem about the day her grand daughter was born. -
The Desert Is My Mother
Written by Pat Mora she gives a different point of view on how the desert is like a mother to the animals that live in it. -
Teenagers
Pat Mora writes an interresting poem on how when children grow up they become a different person like a snake shedding it's skin. -
Immigrants
Immigrants is a story of their children growing up in a foreign country and tryting to embrace their ways.