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There Could Be Light Here, Audrey Bowers
There Could Be Light Here, Audrey Bowers
Graduate Thesis Collection
Poems about healing and hurting. The journey begins with a 14-year-old who is struggling with suicidal thoughts and ends with a 25-year-old learning how to live with bipolar 1 disorder. The poems focus on finding light in the darkness, one poem at a time.
My Body Is A Question Mark Lit From Within, Lisa Marie Schrad
My Body Is A Question Mark Lit From Within, Lisa Marie Schrad
Graduate Thesis Collection
In her MFA thesis “My Body Is a Question Mark Lit from Within,” Lisa Marie Schrad explores through poetry the body and its different appetites—hunger for justice, for healing, for God, for home, for wonder. Along the way, the poems also make clear that the path toward fullness and satisfaction must inevitably pass through a deep, brave commitment to knowing the full truth about ourselves. When a light shines out from inside the body, what shortcomings are exposed? What goodness is revealed? And how do we live in the world responsibly, kindly, from the space in-between our questions and their …
Only One Went Through The Green Door, Rachel Sahaidachny
Only One Went Through The Green Door, Rachel Sahaidachny
Graduate Thesis Collection
Written in three parts, Only One Went through the Green Door, explores abandonment, homelessness, childhood, womanhood, and choices made or unmade that create the complicated and winding path of life. The poems use narrative and lyric to examine the effects of childhood trauma on the development of a persona, and its shadow. Emotional realities explored through natural landscapes, and at times through child-like language, create an unsettled speaker who quests for some final understanding that might lead to peace.
Girl-Junk, Sugar-Funk, Natalie Tombasco
Girl-Junk, Sugar-Funk, Natalie Tombasco
Graduate Thesis Collection
A poetic look into the life of a girl which centers around food, alcoholism, mommy issues, sexuality, identity and mortality.
Sky Lifting His Skirts, Thaddeus Harmon
Sky Lifting His Skirts, Thaddeus Harmon
Graduate Thesis Collection
An imbecilic invocation uttered by glass-fingered mannequins jaggedly gesticulating forgotten ballet moves in a future where skin is optional, and computers sneeze.
The Religious Imagery In Emily Dickinson's Love Poems, Constance B. Kirby
The Religious Imagery In Emily Dickinson's Love Poems, Constance B. Kirby
Graduate Thesis Collection
This paper will discuss to what extent Emily Dickinson's heritage, environment, and experience formed her attitudes on religion and love, and will explain how successful she was in translating her intense emotional experience of love into poetry by examining her use of religious imagery.
A Study Of Edwin Arlington Robinson With Special Attention To His Shorter Poems, Lucile Willowby
A Study Of Edwin Arlington Robinson With Special Attention To His Shorter Poems, Lucile Willowby
Graduate Thesis Collection
The purpose of the present study is to ascertain the principles of poetry to which Robinson adhers, to determine his position in relation to the imagists, and to discuss in some detail the technical qualities of his shorter poems.
Imagery In The Poetry Of Langston Hughes, Maple Louise Allen
Imagery In The Poetry Of Langston Hughes, Maple Louise Allen
Graduate Thesis Collection
Now, it is the purpose of this dissertation to present a study of the imagery in the poetry of Langston Hughes with special emphasis upon (1) its sources, (2) its types, (3) its functions, and, (4) its imprtance as a factor in evaluating Hughes' poetic contributions to society.