One of the top selling artists, he was a rapper and actor. He wrote his music to articulate injustices that are endured by Black Americans.

In August of 1992, Tupac was attacked by kids in Marin City, he had a pistol on him by drooped it. One of the kids picked it up and shot it. Thir resulted in a 6-year-old, Qa'id Walker-Teal dead. However, Tupac was not charged for the death.

Tupac was involved in many legal problems and served in jail. The first event took place in October in 1993. Tupac shot two police officers in Atlanta. However, he was not charged because the court made the prediction after investigation that the police men were drunk and accused Tupac of having a stolen gun. The second event took place in 1994 after Tupac assaulted a movie director by the name of Allen Hughes, and Tupac went to jail for 15 days. The next event took place in February in 1995, Tupac was sentenced to 1.5-4.5 years in jail for sexually abusing a woman. This event took place in Tupac's suite in the New York parker Meridien hotel in November of 1993.

Bonus fact: Tupac died in Las Vegas on September 13,1996. He died from a gunshot wound that was infected for six days after the shooting. The case of his death is still not resolved.

Li-Young Lee was influenced by Li Bo and Tu Fu. Lee has a belief in the oneness of all things. He once said, " If you rigorously dissect it, you realize that everything is a shape of the totality of causes. What's another name for the totality of causes? The Cosmos. So, everything is a shape of Cosmos or God. It feels like something bigger than me- that I can't possibly fathom but am embedded in."

Lee published Rose in 1986, won the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award from New York University. The City in Which I Love You in 1990 and is a remembrance of his childhood and his father. The Winged Seed: A Remembrance in 1995. Lee lays out his family's path from Indonesia to Pennsylvania in a memoir. Book of My Nights in 2001. M.L. Schuldt said, " it was a transfiguring kind of introspection. Lee endures sleeplessness to contemplate the self's urge for total presence. And as with two volumes that precede it, lee arrives at his revelations through a pliant, twining syntax and an archetypal diction." This book was also rewarded to WIlliam Carlos Williams award.

Lee considers all his poems to be descendent of God. Lee says," There are great poem that have flaws. there are failures of perception, failures of understanding, but flaws become part of the poem's integrity, so I still feel that those poems are descendants of God. But if a poem isn't good enough to be a poem, I don't think it's descended from God: If there is no "I", there is no God. The "Me" taking about "Me"- that's not enough."

Poe was the principal forerunner of the "art for art's sake" movement in the 19th century European literature. In his work he demonstrated a command of language and technique. He also inspired and encouraged imagination.

Peo enlisted in the army in 1827 and while in the army he published his first book, Tamerlane, and Other Poems. In 1829 he wrote his second collection called, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems. In 1829 Poe was also discharged from the army with the rank of a sergeant major, following he was admitted to the United Sates Military Academy at West Point. However, he gained dismissal by not meeting requirements and instead he went to New York City, there he wrote Poems in 1831.

Poe is known for two other popular genres including science fiction and detective story. Some of his works that include these genres include The Unparalleled Adventure of Hans Pfaall, and Von Kempelen and His Discovery.

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