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"The Brain - Is Wider Than The Sky -" Notes Of Life, On Learning And Language, Anne M. Burnett
"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.
For The Intruder In My Home, Bennett Chinsena
For The Intruder In My Home, Bennett Chinsena
Senior Projects Spring 2018
A collection of lyric, prose, and experimental poetry.
Inverted Pyramid This Earth, Maggie Louisa Zavgren
Inverted Pyramid This Earth, Maggie Louisa Zavgren
Senior Projects Spring 2018
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College
House God, Geneva Zane
House God, Geneva Zane
Senior Projects Spring 2018
A study of faith and its many forms, ranging from the faith a child has in dreams to the God like status of a writer and Their creation.
Love, Kissed Into Verse: Swinburne, Tennyson, And The Failure Of Love In Consummation Versus The Triumph Of Love Through Time In Poetry, Julia E. Berry
Love, Kissed Into Verse: Swinburne, Tennyson, And The Failure Of Love In Consummation Versus The Triumph Of Love Through Time In Poetry, Julia E. Berry
Senior Projects Spring 2018
At its core, this project seeks to examine the veracity of identifying love and sex as inextricable concepts within romantic relationships. Locating this exploration in the study of Victorian poetry, various poems from A.C. Swinburne’s “Poems and Ballads” and Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s elegy “In Memoriam A.H.H.” provide portraits of love with and without consummation. The first chapter focuses its gaze upon Swinburne’s poems, where consummation in romantic relationships erodes love and causes love’s inability to survive through time. The second chapter analyzes “In Memoriam A.H.H.” and its portrayal of loving, even after the death of the beloved. Ultimately, after considering …
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 …
Horizon's Door, Mackenzie Kristofco
Horizon's Door, Mackenzie Kristofco
Senior Projects Spring 2018
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.