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"Mark In This": Strategies Of Persuasion And Argument In John Donne's Poetry, Nazreen Laffir

Honors College Theses

Whether he is writing an erotic lyric, a mutual love poem or a holy sonnet, John Donne's poems employ a similar argumentative structure. Although "The Flea", an erotic lyric, "The Canonization", a mutual love poem, and "Batter My Heart", a holy sonnet portray different types of love, Donne's argumentative structure in these poems is similar to each other. In "The Flea", "The Canonization" and "Batter My Heart", Donne's speakers present a claim or command which they defend throughout the rest of the poem. The speakers use persuasive strategies to defend and validate their assertion. As the poems conclude, the speakers …

Lizards And Bugambilias, Jose A. Rodriguez

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

This is a creative-writing thesis, a collection of poetry. The poems are divided into three sections, which share thematic content. In this collection, the poetry explores issues of place, family and identity, all closely tied to the geographic/cultural area of South Texas. The critical introduction explains both the organization of and the influences on the poems.

Keeping Gardens: Poetry And Essay, Deja Anne Earley

Theses and Dissertations

This creative thesis includes two creative non-fiction essays and twenty-two poems, introduced by a critical essay that examines my work. The poems and essays share an origin in personal experience as well as an interest in language. Specifically, the poems and essays explore issues of family, relationships, spirituality, and observations of the natural world. The introductory essay discusses my interest in re-fashioning individual vision through the act of writing, relating to Helene Cixous's idea of creating a "portrait of God" through the act of art. The essay also examines the connections between the genres of creative non-fiction and poetry, in …

Joshua, This Is Your Story: Tribute To Joshua Uzoigwe, 1946-2005 (With Three Poems By The Deceased From Nsukka Harvest, 1972), Chukwuma Azuonye

Africana Studies Faculty Publication Series

Renowned Musicologist and poet, Professor Joshua Uzoigwe, former head of the Music Department at the University of Uyo, joined the ancestors last month. Described as "a music educator, composer, performer and musicologist [and as someone who] directed several musical concerts in which he featured his own works and works by other modern Nigerian composers." It was also said that "his intention was to create an awareness of this music in an intellectual environment such as Obafemi Awolowo University and in Nigeria at large."

Reprinted below are a tribute to Professor Uzoigwe by our ALA colleague and friend, Professor Chukwuma Azuonye …

2005 Forces, Scott Yarbrough

Forces

No abstract provided.

Opus 2004-2005, Issue Iii, Suny Geneseo English Club

Opus

POETRY
9 Dana LePage, Dusty Wooden Panel
10 Duncan Carranza, Petty Games
13 Terasa Hahn, Sensation
17 Nicole Schwartz, Center Stage
17 Schuyler Woos, Night Terrors
18 Harrison Watkins, E is for
18 Meg Vasey, So You Grow Up
18 Beth Pinkerton, Sleep
22 Michael Chin, Good Night for a Cigarette
22 Dana Lepage, Together Descending
23 Alex Egan, I Think I'm Starting to Understand Why I Always Wear Black
30 Duncan Carranza, Typo
30 Pia Fleischmann, Homage to Night
30 Meg Vasey, it's a good romantic movie, In the bullshit kind of way
31 Jessica Allen, Stagnant
31 James …

Faux, Flawed, Failed: Alice Fulton's Fuzzy Poetry And Poetics On Cascade Experiment By Alice Fulton, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

Alice Fulton is a poet and a theoretician who, for over 25 years, has tried to make much of, and even to occupy, this new fuzzy space. As many of her notebook entries (collected in The Poet’s Notebook: Excerpts from the Notebooks of Contemporary American Poets. Ed. Stephen Kuusisto, et al. NY: W.W. Norton, 1995) attest to, Fulton refers to and privileges the gap, the between. One entry mulls over the possibilities opened up by fuzzy logic, stating, “Conventional logic is based on the idea that a statement…is either true or false. Fuzzy logic deals with the degree of truth, …

Pecan Grove Review Volume 9, St. Mary's University

Pecan Grove Review

Creative writings by students, faculty, and staff of the St. Mary's University community.

Ripped From The Tree, Tom Hansen

Bryant Literary Review

(beginning with two lines by Anonymous)

There is no easy way

into another world.

Sandpipers, Again, Lisa Starr

Bryant Literary Review

I went back to the sandpipers today--

it's been a while.

The Remnants Of Hurricane Bill Newport, Ri, Kate Mele

Bryant Literary Review

We didn't expect the rain and with it

the scent of night jasmine rolling up

Prison, Elizabeth Percer

Bryant Literary Review

I wish a crime would come my way.

That I had the nervous power of disobedience.

W. W. I Veteran Dies In Hometown Paper, Robert Pringle

Bryant Literary Review

Born to his people,

Tampico, south Indiana:

Detroit, Michelle Brooks

Bryant Literary Review

I did not know any better except to love

For The First Time, Joanna Noble

Bryant Literary Review

Alone and snow-bound you learn

the bones of your home as they keen

The Hypnotic Meter Of "The Charge Of The Light Brigade", Michael Rifenburg

The Corinthian

Lord Alfred Tennyson, composer of beautifully melodic verse during the Victorian Age, used meter to create for the reader a musical milieu. In his 1854 poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade," Tennyson uses dactylic meter (stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables) to slip the reader into a hypnotic state and to convey to the reader the futility of the charge.

Dead Professor, Dan Dabrowski

Bryant Literary Review

Came knocking,

but I take it you're not around.

I Will Go, David Rogers

Bryant Literary Review

and wander like Li Po

along river banks and wine halls

The Doctor Arrives, John Grey

Bryant Literary Review

The doctor enters the room

and the mood is no less gloomier.

Newport Ferry, Nancy Sullivan

Bryant Literary Review

Getting on was serpentine and narrow

Like pushing a wheelbarrow.

Death Speaks Of The Beauty Of Crows, Cathleen Calbert

Bryant Literary Review

God's mistake

was not loving them enough.

Long Term Touching, Martha Christina

Bryant Literary Review

When I held his hand

for the first time,

it was thinner,

The Station Nightclub, Don Kunz

Bryant Literary Review

How can they not still dream of fire?

Everything has turned black:

Alchemy, Peggy Ann Tartt

Bryant Literary Review

At some point in any conversation

a door appears.

Picasso's Bowl, Natasha Marin

Bryant Literary Review

Today I am a belly full of blue water

because he had an argument with his girl

Resistance To The Resistance To Poetry On The Resistance To Poetry, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

James Longenbach’s previous book of criticism, Modern Poetry after Modernism (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997), opens by reworking Randall Jarrell’s claim in the essay "The End of the Line" that "Romantic poetry holds in solution contradictory tendencies which, isolated and exaggerated in modernism, look startlingly opposed to each other and to the earlier stages of romanticism." Replacing the references to romanticism with modernism, and the reference to modernism with postmodernism, Longenbach begins his argument against the continued use of the "breakthrough narrative," a faulty critical construct based on an overly simple idea of a too-easy distinction between modernism and postmodernism, suggesting …