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Poetics Of Finitude: Time And Death In The Poetry Of R.M. Rilke And T.S. Eliot, Isabel James Greene
Poetics Of Finitude: Time And Death In The Poetry Of R.M. Rilke And T.S. Eliot, Isabel James Greene
Senior Projects Spring 2023
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.
A Poet, A Teacher: Standing Still With Mary Oliver, Melissa Therese Benedek
A Poet, A Teacher: Standing Still With Mary Oliver, Melissa Therese Benedek
Senior Projects Spring 2021
The poet Mary Oliver (1935-2019) once wrote, “Attention without feeling, I began to learn, is only a report.” How does Oliver teach the practice of paying attention to the natural world? This project explores observation as a form of attention in Oliver’s work and how it is implicit in her writing practice. The relationship between attention and feeling manifests in her poetry. Observations are both the foundation and definition of Oliver’s concrete images and incommunicable encounters with nonhumans in the natural world. For Oliver, the goal of attention is not to give a scientific account of details about specific animals …
Letter Blocks, Lukas Graham Hemmer
Letter Blocks, Lukas Graham Hemmer
Senior Projects Spring 2020
A collection of prose and poetry exploring language as a material object.
The Greater Torment: Religious And Secular Desire In The Poetry And Criticism Of T.S. Eliot, Katie Buonanno
The Greater Torment: Religious And Secular Desire In The Poetry And Criticism Of T.S. Eliot, Katie Buonanno
Senior Projects Spring 2019
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.
"I Refuse To Die:" The Poetics Of Intergenerational Trauma In The Works Of Li-Young Lee, Ocean Vuong, Cathy Park Hong, And Emily Jungmin Yoon, Helli Fang
Senior Projects Fall 2019
This project explores how trauma and violence within immigrant and refugee narratives are preserved and embodied in the poetry and prose works of four Asian American writers, Li-Young Lee, Ocean Vuong, Cathy Park Hong, and Emily Jungmin Yoon. In this examination arises the question of how trauma from a historical event can be passed down to people who have not witnessed them firsthand, such as the children of war refugees. I argue that these works are written not solely with the intention to remain truthful to the informative or factual history of these inherited traumatic events, but rather, to preserve …
"Between Sunset And River": Nabokov's Bridge To The Otherworld, Jesse R. Weiss
"Between Sunset And River": Nabokov's Bridge To The Otherworld, Jesse R. Weiss
Senior Projects Spring 2016
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.
Blue Sun, And Other Poems, Tamas Julius Panitz
Blue Sun, And Other Poems, Tamas Julius Panitz
Senior Projects Spring 2014
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.