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"The First Fruits Of A Woman's Wit": Reclaiming The Childbirth Metaphor In Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, Carolyn Mae Shakespear Apr 2024

"The First Fruits Of A Woman's Wit": Reclaiming The Childbirth Metaphor In Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, Carolyn Mae Shakespear

Theses and Dissertations

The childbirth metaphor adopts imagery from female bodies carrying and delivering children to describe the effort and relationship of a poet to his/her poem. This was a commonly used trope in the renaissance, particularly by male authors. This thesis examines the way early modern woman poet, Aemilia Lanyer uses the childbirth metaphor in her poem, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. Lanyer ultimately considers not only the physical realities of childbirth in her use of the metaphor, but also the emotional, social, and theological consequences. By doing so, I argue that Lanyer reclaims the metaphor from her male contemporaries in order to …


Milton, Immortality, And Obtaining Eliot's "Significant Emotion", Aaron By Gorner Mar 2024

Milton, Immortality, And Obtaining Eliot's "Significant Emotion", Aaron By Gorner

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

In his essay Tradition and the Individual Talent, T. S. Eliot famously asserts that very few can actually access "significant emotion" in poetry, and do so by understanding where relics of the classical tradition assert their immortality. In my article, I support Eliot's claims by demonstrating two (previously undiscussed) occasions where Milton, via Paradise Lost, inserts Christianity into the classical world: Satan and Abdiel alluding to Virgil's Remulus and Ascanius, and then Eve and Adam with Virgil's Nisus and Euryalus. Ultimately it will be apparent that not only does Milton's poetry obtain Eliot's "significant emotion" and its associated immortality, …


Finding Words For God: Poetic Foraging In Louise Glück's The Wild Iris, Rachel Cardall Dec 2023

Finding Words For God: Poetic Foraging In Louise Glück's The Wild Iris, Rachel Cardall

Theses and Dissertations

The primary speaker of Louise Glück's The Wild Iris is a wanderer in her own garden. She relentlessly searches for God among her foxgloves and daisies, straining to hear God's voice. Two other speakers, God and the collective plants of the garden, offer their perspectives without acknowledgement by the human speaker. Many critics read these two other speakers as, in fact, narcissistic projections of the human speaker, a God and a world made in her own image. In this thesis, I clarify that the kind of narcissistic projection that occurs in The Wild Iris is actually productive for genuine spiritual …


Was Samuel The Lamanite A Poet? Oct 2023

Was Samuel The Lamanite A Poet?

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

S. Kent Brown, professor of ancient scripture at BYU, has recently completed a study of "The Prophetic Laments of Samuel the Lamanite," available as a F.A.R.M.S. paper. His comparison of Helaman 13 with the poetic form of biblical laments offers a number of intriguing insights into both the form and meaning of Samuel's message for the Nephites and for us.


Twenty-Two, Amy Griffin Sep 2022

Twenty-Two, Amy Griffin

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Life Giver Pantoum, Amy Griffin Sep 2022

Life Giver Pantoum, Amy Griffin

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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How To Be A Woman. A Pillar Of Light, Danielle Kemp Sep 2022

How To Be A Woman. A Pillar Of Light, Danielle Kemp

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Dear Mother, Danielle Kemp Sep 2022

Dear Mother, Danielle Kemp

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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In Their Image, Danielle Kemp Sep 2022

In Their Image, Danielle Kemp

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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What If We Remembered, Danielle Kemp Sep 2022

What If We Remembered, Danielle Kemp

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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The Mask, Emily Felt Sep 2022

The Mask, Emily Felt

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Haunted, Amanda Reece Sep 2022

Haunted, Amanda Reece

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Homemaker, Eliza Peterson Sep 2022

Homemaker, Eliza Peterson

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Tender, Eliza Peterson Sep 2022

Tender, Eliza Peterson

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Yes ... But, Elizabeth Marie Cox Sep 2022

Yes ... But, Elizabeth Marie Cox

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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My Fierce Love, Elizabeth Marie Cox Sep 2022

My Fierce Love, Elizabeth Marie Cox

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Love They Said, Elizabeth Marie Cox Sep 2022

Love They Said, Elizabeth Marie Cox

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Help, Elizabeth Marie Cox Sep 2022

Help, Elizabeth Marie Cox

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Translation For Effa Baird, Clare Hamn Sep 2022

Translation For Effa Baird, Clare Hamn

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Independence Day: A Song For Silent Liberty, Vernie Lynn Demille Sep 2022

Independence Day: A Song For Silent Liberty, Vernie Lynn Demille

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Baby #3?, Amber E.F. S. Sep 2022

Baby #3?, Amber E.F. S.

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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A Woman With A Phd., Lydia Shaw Sep 2022

A Woman With A Phd., Lydia Shaw

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Conversación Con La Curie, Amanda Galán Vintimilla Sep 2022

Conversación Con La Curie, Amanda Galán Vintimilla

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Within Reach, Catherine Marcheschi Sep 2022

Within Reach, Catherine Marcheschi

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Beautiful Wreckage, Sydney Springer Sep 2022

Beautiful Wreckage, Sydney Springer

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Revolution. Every Piece Of You, Sydney Springer Sep 2022

Revolution. Every Piece Of You, Sydney Springer

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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I Wanna Get Better, Sydney Springer Sep 2022

I Wanna Get Better, Sydney Springer

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Nv, Sydney Springer Sep 2022

Nv, Sydney Springer

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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I’M Wide Awake, Sydney Springer Sep 2022

I’M Wide Awake, Sydney Springer

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Mightier Than The Men, Sydney Springer Sep 2022

Mightier Than The Men, Sydney Springer

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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