Brecht began to write poetry as a boy, and had his first poems published in 1914 at the age of 16. ... In the 1930's Brecht's books and plays were banned in Germany, performances were interrupted by the police or summarily forbidden. ...
Plot is distinguished from story, which is the summary of the plot's incidents without considering how they are interrelated. ... Two things I have acquired from this class are that there is more to literature than just plays, poems, and nonfiction stories. ...
Article Summaries Adrian van Kaam discusses humanistic psychology and how it is related to culture. ... The way that an individual can express their personal meaning of the world is through poems, novels, music and paintings, because those literary and artistic expressions are the closest thing to the original experience that the individual himself experiences (van Kaam, 1961). ...
