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Senior Projects Spring 2018

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"The Brain - Is Wider Than The Sky -" Notes Of Life, On Learning And Language, Anne M. Burnett Jan 2018

"The Brain - Is Wider Than The Sky -" Notes Of Life, On Learning And Language, Anne M. Burnett

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


The Second Language: An Argument For The Superlative Authenticity Of Poetry Through The Complex Personal Relationships It Develops With Its Audiences By Way Of Truth In Metaphor, C Mandler Jan 2018

The Second Language: An Argument For The Superlative Authenticity Of Poetry Through The Complex Personal Relationships It Develops With Its Audiences By Way Of Truth In Metaphor, C Mandler

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Abstract: In this paper, I will argue that poetry allows for a kind of expression that is not found within other uses of language. This is because the poetic form is able to better lend itself to larger notions of not only truth, but also authenticity, which it achieves through the building of complex emotional engagements between a work of poetry and its audience. When discussing the authenticity of poetry, one’s personal connection to the work by way of metaphor is more truthful than the so-called literal truth one comes to when one reads something exactly as it is written—meaning …