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The Sleepy Hero: Romantic & Spiritual Sleep In The Gawain-Poet, Erin Kathleen Turner Hepner
The Sleepy Hero: Romantic & Spiritual Sleep In The Gawain-Poet, Erin Kathleen Turner Hepner
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
This thesis examines two accepted styles of writing in the Middle Ages, the romance and religious genres, and what purpose they perform in the Gawain-poet’s religious poem, Patience, and his romance poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (SGGK). One recently popular line of research among medieval scholars is examining the way medieval authors, such as the Gawain-poet, combine elements of romance and spiritual writings. By funneling the Gawain-poet’s intermingling of the medieval romance and religious genres through the specific lens of sleep, which is represented differently in medieval romance texts than in medieval religious …
Rhyme And Reason In Language Acquisition: Incorporating Poetry Into The Esl Classroom, Kimberly Call Gleason
Rhyme And Reason In Language Acquisition: Incorporating Poetry Into The Esl Classroom, Kimberly Call Gleason
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
Utah is seeing a rapid increase in K-12 students whose native language is not English. With this increase, teachers face the challenge of finding new and effective teaching methods to reach their ESL (English as a Second Language) students. This research explores the study of poetry as an instrument to improve ESL students' pronunciation of English. When read out loud, poetry can be an exercise in pronouncing consonant sounds (from alliteration), decoding vowel sounds (from rhyme), and acquiring the natural speech rhythm of the English language (from meter). Poetry was selected not only because of its exaggerated sound elements (alliteration, …
Mapping America, Re-Mapping The World: The Cosmopolitanism Of Agha Shahid Ali's A Nostalgist's Map Of America, Xiwen Mai
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
Published in 1991, Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali‘s collection A Nostalgist‘s Map of America is a book about the poet‘s travel in America. From ―"the dead center of Pennsylvania" to Indian reservations in New Mexico, the collection weaves multiple landscapes, texts, and emotions into a map of America, on which the poet‘s traveling routes lead to thinking about language, identity, colonial and neocolonial politics. While critics like Lawrence Needham, Jeannie Chiu, and Rajini Srikanth, in reading the collection, have all focused on his themes of nostalgia, melancholy, and loss as an exile, this paper argues that Ali‘s ―"map of America" …
Winning, Losing, And Changing The Rules: The Rhetoric Of Poetry Contests And Competition, Marc Pietrzykowski
Winning, Losing, And Changing The Rules: The Rhetoric Of Poetry Contests And Competition, Marc Pietrzykowski
English Dissertations
This dissertation attempts to trace the shifting relationship between the fields of Rhetoric and Poetry in Western culture by focusing on poetry contests and competitions during several different historical eras. In order to examine how the distinction between the two fields is contingent on a variety of local factors, this study makes use of research in contemporary cognitive neuroscience, particularly work in categorization and cognitive linguistics, to emphasize the provisional nature of conceptual thought; that is, on the type of mental activity that gives rise to conceptualizations such as “Rhetoric” and “Poetry.” The final portions of the research attempt to …
Boethian Colorings In Geoffrey Chaucer's Earlier Poetry: The Book Of The Duchess, The Parliament Of Fowls And The House Of Fame, Morgen Lamson
Boethian Colorings In Geoffrey Chaucer's Earlier Poetry: The Book Of The Duchess, The Parliament Of Fowls And The House Of Fame, Morgen Lamson
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
There has been much written on Boethius and his impact on Chaucer's greater known works, such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, yet there has not been much light shone on his other works, namely The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, and The House of Fame, which are a rich mix of medieval conventions and Boethian elements and themes. Such ideas have been explored through the lenses of his five, shorter "Boethian lyrics" - "The Former Age," "Fortune," "Truth," "Gentilesse," and "Lak of Stedfastnesse" - particularly because it is within these five poems that the …
Museum-Making In Women's Poetry: How Sylvia Plath And Emily Dickinson Confront The Time Of History, Margaret Brown
Museum-Making In Women's Poetry: How Sylvia Plath And Emily Dickinson Confront The Time Of History, Margaret Brown
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
In The Newly Born Woman, Helene Cixous and Catherine Clement note that Michelet and Freud "both thought that the repressed past survives in woman; woman, more than anyone else, is dedicated to reminiscence" (5). Whether or not this is true of woman, that expectation of her—as keeper of the past—has perhaps subsisted in the deepest realms of the collective unconscious. From the work of Cixous and Clement, Julia Kristeva and Angela Leighton, I ultimately deduce that there are two perceptions of time: man's time has been associated with the straight, the linear, the historical, and the prosaic; woman's time has …
Between Us There Are More And More Things, Becky Kennedy
Between Us There Are More And More Things, Becky Kennedy
Bryant Literary Review
Frying bacon in the morning
every morning washing dishes in a place
where I see trees
Butterflies And Honey, B. Z. Niditch
Butterflies And Honey, B. Z. Niditch
Bryant Literary Review
You keep your voice
shivering in the blue sun
butterflies and honey
Terrible Twos, Charles Harper Webb
Terrible Twos, Charles Harper Webb
Bryant Literary Review
O God of Mercy, drop me in the sea.
Turn my feet into propellers; my chest,
The Walnut, David Cappella
The Walnut, David Cappella
Bryant Literary Review
Consider the walnut
its crenellation, its meat
like a miniature human brain
Two Swans In A Pond Next To The Highway, J. R. Solonche
Two Swans In A Pond Next To The Highway, J. R. Solonche
Bryant Literary Review
They have chosen well, these two
swans, one swimming the circumference
of the water, its neck a parenthesis
Maho Bay, Near The Astrologer's Table, Lyn Lifshin
Maho Bay, Near The Astrologer's Table, Lyn Lifshin
Bryant Literary Review
yellow bird on
the table, two
curious lizards
Photography, Rustin Larson
Photography, Rustin Larson
Bryant Literary Review
Earth takes a long-exposure photo of herself--
her apartment a kind of camera obscura--
Compost, Ravi Shankar
Compost, Ravi Shankar
Bryant Literary Review
Filling a tarp full of spindled elm leaves
that cling and loosen in wake of dragging
The Third Of May, 1808, At Madrid: The Shootings On Principe Pio Mountain, Oil On Canvas, 1814, Ravi Shankar
The Third Of May, 1808, At Madrid: The Shootings On Principe Pio Mountain, Oil On Canvas, 1814, Ravi Shankar
Bryant Literary Review
When they come for you, Cossack-capped,
in lockstep, carrying the black eye of death
against their shoulders, how will you react?
Squid, Mary Ann Mayer
Squid, Mary Ann Mayer
Bryant Literary Review
We dissected one in school,
and it squirted ink all over the room
when I squeezed it.
What The Raven Said, Barbara Crooker
What The Raven Said, Barbara Crooker
Bryant Literary Review
as he balanced on a branch of Douglas fir,
was that it's dark under the stars, the planet
Elegy For The Residents Of The Niagara Apartments, Ken Meisel
Elegy For The Residents Of The Niagara Apartments, Ken Meisel
Bryant Literary Review
I
Because there are stories too disturbing to retell
I have to first talk about the field of yellow flowers
New In Town, Nancy White
New In Town, Nancy White
Bryant Literary Review
Yes, he still drops by, still for no reason. Even
today when rain bathes the house and
the path sheds its glove of dust.
For Chance, Keep Beauty Warm, Nancy Lee Craven
For Chance, Keep Beauty Warm, Nancy Lee Craven
Bryant Literary Review
Keep truth ardent, fresh and limber
protect it by finding it in lowly places
and leave it there--
The Iris And The Blade, Kathleen Hellen
The Iris And The Blade, Kathleen Hellen
Bryant Literary Review
The body Japanese:
perfect as the words;
"And Today", Jack Lindeman
"And Today", Jack Lindeman
Bryant Literary Review
And today I wonder what should be done
and what not done,
and whether there is really
any difference between the two
Drawing Blanks, John Azrak
Drawing Blanks, John Azrak
Bryant Literary Review
I turned my memory over
to you when, unexpectedly
In Some Town's Junk Shop, John Hazard
In Some Town's Junk Shop, John Hazard
Bryant Literary Review
A photo: someone's tall father leans on a shovel
in failing light. It's black and white, but I see
the orange in the tip of his smoke
Late Visions, Lynn Domina
Late Visions, Lynn Domina
Bryant Literary Review
He's an old man with an infant
daughter dead seventy years.
Slow Change, Rane Arroyo
Slow Change, Rane Arroyo
Bryant Literary Review
I thought, it's done, I'm out.
My father died, the women in
Some Less Well-Tempered Claviers, John Grey
Some Less Well-Tempered Claviers, John Grey
Bryant Literary Review
This thinking is not all solitary.
Sometimes I take music along.
Johann Sebastian Bach,
A Field Of Pumpkins, Martha Christina
A Field Of Pumpkins, Martha Christina
Bryant Literary Review
Glimpsed from the train
they're a sudden
and short-lived gift.
Falling Leaves, Gary Hanna
Falling Leaves, Gary Hanna
Bryant Literary Review
In the crispness
of the night
I reach out, knowing
Rory Gilley, Cody Stratton
Rory Gilley, Cody Stratton
Bryant Literary Review
People always wonder
But never question why