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White Shadows: Perception And Imagination In Poetry, Madison Chartier
White Shadows: Perception And Imagination In Poetry, Madison Chartier
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
In the spring of my sophomore year, I enrolled in the introductory course to writing poetry here at Butler University. I am not naturally a poet, but I have an appreciation for reading poetry and, at the time of the course, was curious to try my hand at the craft, despite having had little experience prior to the collegiate level. As may be expected, I ran into obstacles.
I enjoyed playing with language in experiments of sound and rhythm, but, despite the vast array of assonance, consonance, enjambment, and every other technique I employed, the poems I created throughout the …
Christopher Fry's Contribution To Modern Drama, Jane Mcelroy
Christopher Fry's Contribution To Modern Drama, Jane Mcelroy
Graduate Thesis Collection
In a modern theatre increasingly preoccupied with the mundane, the sordid, the perverse, and the hopeless, Christopher Fry's plays loom like beacons~ For Hr. Fry finds the world, however chaotic, magnificent; and he chooses to explore its more civilized areas in a language undauntedly poetic, through characters cultivated enough to speak that poetry...
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.
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Sacramentalist And Incarnationist, Helen V. Barry
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Sacramentalist And Incarnationist, Helen V. Barry
Graduate Thesis Collection
It is the purpose of this dissertation to reveal Gerard Manley Hopkins as an incarnationist and sacramentalist, and to show how these doctrines manifested throughout his poetry affected the entire scope of his verse and completely colored his attitude toward life-- toward his own existence and that of his fellow man, and especially toward natural phenomena.