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Poetry

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African-American Poetry, Music, And Politics, Tyler H. Macdonald Jan 2018

African-American Poetry, Music, And Politics, Tyler H. Macdonald

Honors Theses

The 2016 decision to award songwriter and musician Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize in Literature sparked a worldwide debate on the relationship between music and poetry and raised many questions about music’s place in literary canon. However, this debate is nothing new. Questions about the relationship between music and poetry have long been debated. Some scholars believe the two disciplines should be studied separately, while others prefer to consider the connections between the two.

My project begins with a question: if Bob Dylan’s songs can be considered poetry, what other forms of music might also be considered poetry? Rap implements …


La Esperanza, Elizabeth Tippet May 2000

La Esperanza, Elizabeth Tippet

Senior Scholar Papers

Poems


Siamese Connection, Rosecrans Baldwin May 1999

Siamese Connection, Rosecrans Baldwin

Senior Scholar Papers

No abstract provided.


Power Outage, And Other Poems, Wendy Oram-Smith May 1995

Power Outage, And Other Poems, Wendy Oram-Smith

Senior Scholar Papers

Contents -

At the Starry Night Cafe

AIbino Buffalo

Monteverdi In The Rain

Lust

Litter

Poem After The Chinese

Cleere's Pub

Treasure Island

Nipple

Periwinkle

Talkeetna

Beached Whale

Spending Christmas in the land of Enchantment

Easter

Poem For Emily Dickinson

Second Hand Gifts

The Power Outage

October

In The Observation Car

Westerly


Slack Tide, Allison Alsip May 1994

Slack Tide, Allison Alsip

Senior Scholar Papers

No abstract provided.


Bleeding: A Collection Of Poetry And Short Fiction, Cecily Von Ziegesar May 1992

Bleeding: A Collection Of Poetry And Short Fiction, Cecily Von Ziegesar

Senior Scholar Papers

Poetry

Short Stories


Eyes On The Branches: Poems, And An Essay On Contemporary Poetry, Richard Cass May 1973

Eyes On The Branches: Poems, And An Essay On Contemporary Poetry, Richard Cass

Senior Scholar Papers

The thirty poems collected here were written durin 1972-197. They begin as rather imagistic pieces, but the imagist tendencies are tempered with a preoccupation with the process of emotion. The poems progress through a middle period of finding a poetic voice by combining elements of other styles with the stylistic tendencies that rise out of myself. The subject matter is deliberately varied. The poems emerge, in the last few pieces, as the beginnings of a voice which combines a preoccupation with man in the unity of the world, the state of natural world and the nature of its retaliation for …