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Headed Inbound, Claudia Rosado

Bryant Literary Review

i've fallen in love

with you on the train

Driving To Look Out Point To See The Sunset, Riley Mayes

Bryant Literary Review

My car or yours?

We already know the answer.

On The Rocks, Jen Mazlymian

Bryant Literary Review

He sat on the rocks

by the shoe

Staring at the sea

Mono No Aware, W.W. Harris

Bryant Literary Review

a part of me is still

drowning beside

Plum Rains (梅雨), Claire Kuo

Bryant Literary Review

Tissue paper petals

wilt under the weight

I Drop Your Photograph In The Sea, Claire Kuo

Bryant Literary Review

But I am the sailor submerged

in your endless blue --

Submersion, Meg Peters

Bryant Literary Review

Before anything else, there is water.

God Spoke To Me Through The Car Stereo, Alexa O'Kane

Bryant Literary Review

I was twelve.

The woman with the crooked teeth

Told me I was a pearl,

I Have Felt For A While That..., Nichole Page

Bryant Literary Review

Time is passing too quickly again

and I have not had enough time to hold you

Moon To Moon Nights, Dixie Partridge

BYU Studies

like time-lapse film, signify now a moment, now a lifetime. A bonedrift of stone shapes pale and rise like years along garden’s edge. . . .

Desert Harvest, Ben De Hoyos

BYU Studies

At last, it came, The cleansing rain at the fading Of this long, parched day.

Finding Mostly Air: Poems, Sidra Elvey

Honors Projects

This project is a self-produced poetry chapbook. It explores themes of connection, art, dreams, and self-reflection.

From Poet To Activist: Sarojini Naidu And Her Battles Against Colonial Oppression And Misogyny In 20th-Century India, Madisyn Staggs

Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History

Sarojini Naidu was a prominent poet and activist during the early twentieth century, yet few have ever heard her name. A child prodigy turned romantic poet, she shocked the world with her words and used her growing fame to advocate for Indian independence alongside famous nationalist Mahatma Gandhi. Her fluidity as a poet helped her captivate international audiences, and her charisma moved the masses to support her causes. Fighting for nationalism, she never forgot about her sisters, and Indian women still celebrate Naidu today for her impact as a feminist. Naidu’s poetic mastery, her charisma as an orator, and her …

Treatise, Scripture, Manifesto: Reckoning With "Love Cake", Lalini Shanela Ranaraja

Audre Lorde Prize

This essay was written in response to Sri Lankan-American writer and activist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha's poetry collection Love Cake, as part of a directed study I undertook in Spring 2021. A goal of the directed study, titled "The Empire Writes Back" was to engage with and build upon work by writers from South Asia and the diaspora, of which Piepzna-Samarasinha is a vocal member. In this essay, I explore not only the sense of connection I feel with this poet and her body of work as a result of shared experiences of otherness, trauma, and nationhood, but also …

The Messenger

The Messenger

forward

onward so as to make progress; toward a successful conclusion.

“There is a way forward

and yes

it is with a broken

heart

but it is our own way

collectively convened,

pondered,

Shared.”

Alice Walker

On Being Seen Or For Those Who Break Like Me, Shanisha K. Branch

English Theses & Dissertations

The nature of truly seeing is something I’ve had a hard time grappling with. If you understand the difficultly of seeing and wanting others to see you that same, then these pages are for you.

Capable, Arianna Elise Miller

Theses and Dissertations

"CAPABLE” is a full-length manuscript of poetry. The speaker of the manuscript interrogates her family’s past, specifically the past of her father. The speaker details how her grandmother abandoned her father as a young boy. This story of abandonment, and its aftermath, is expressed through portraits of the speaker’s family members. The most prevalent theme—freedom to choose one’s own path despite familial obligations—is seen through the grandmother’s leaving and the speaker’s own sexual experiences. Both the grandmother and speaker make decisions that alienate them from their families. Their experiences are juxtaposed in a way that presents the grandmother as a …

Mercy, Elizabeth Smith

BYU Studies

I merge into surging highway wind, my backseat baby babbles to the Tim-Tams macaroni yogurt burger cookies and bananas, and a crackling alto announces the world this hour: buildings burst in a distant port, scoundrel stabs doctor in a clinic past the mountains, furious inferno feasts on trees, towns just south of here.

(Trans)Form: Spoken Word As Queer And Transgender Testimony, Kaileigh/Wesley Strobel

Undergraduate Distinction Papers

(Trans)form will explore the importance of spoken word poetry in and for the queer and transgender community. Especially underscoring the significance of public voice in a culture that often wants to conceal or minimize the lived lives of LGTBQIAP+ people. (Trans)form will be a collection of self-authored spoken word poems that are influenced by—and in dialogue with—powerful transgender spoken word authors. The project will open with an essay on the importance of spoken word poetry and voice.

Manifestations Of Cultural Identity In The Poetry Of Ali Jaafar Al-Alaq, Raed Fouad Taleb

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The civilizational identity and what associated with it of talking about the self and the other of the modern problems that faced modern human as he is looking for his existential affiliation and what achieves his self-distinction and its cultural peculiarities. The poet represents a model that expresses the identity of the civilized self, hence we decided to address the issue of the civilized identity, trying to follow these manifestations in his poetry collection.

الأسس الخلافية لتأويل مشكل شعر المعري بين البطليوسي وابن العربي, البشير التهالي

Dirassat

Title : The controversial foundations for interpreting the problem of al-Maari's poetry between Batalyawsi and Ibn al-Arabi

The poetry of Abu Al-Alaa Al-Maari is distinguished for its interactive and argumentative context. In addition, it is rich in interpretative capabilities. In addition, Al-Maari’s poetry has a brilliant interpretive potential that establishes the literary rule. Accordingly, it aims at analyzing the foundations of dispute between Abd Allāh Ibn Muḥammad al-Baṭalyawsī and Abu Bakr Ibn al-Arabi who were famous for interpreting poetic discourse. As far as Abu Al-'Ala al-Ma'ari is concerned; the reality of his poetry resides in an …

تلقي "أبي بكر الباقلاني:" للإعجاز القرآني, علي بختي

Dirassat

Title : Abu Bakr al-BAQILLANI reception of the miracles of the Qur'an

During the second and the fourth Hijri centuries, the prime preoccupation of scholars was to rekindle the Arab intellectual heritage and create diversity of thought and knowledge. The first predominant current tried to prove the Qur’anic miracle. The Ash'ariyya and Mu'tazila tried reasoning and logic to confront disbelievers. However, there raised issues with readership and receptivity. The second current shifted focus onto the aesthetic impact of the Qur’anic miracle. The stage is characterized by innate and pure aesthetic taste that is not spoiled as poetics and rhetoric of …

The Erasure Of Black Women, Tamara D. Anderson, Maya Anderson

#CritEdPol: Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies at Swarthmore College

To what do we owe Black women? Everything. To be Black and female in America means that you are ignored, silenced, and sometimes erased. the very fabric of history would be quite different for all of us without the contributions, tears, blood, and love of Black women. As a result of the intersection of patriarchy and white supremacy, Black women are too often left exhausted, overworked, and left out of the historical narrative. This multi-modal creative work is a call to action to end the erasure of Black women with scholarship, visual art, and poetry.

“No Roses, White Nor Red, Glow Here”: The Motif Of The Garden In Two Proserpine Poems By A. Swinburne And D. Greenwell, Cristina Salcedo González

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In this article, I discuss Algernon Swinburne’s and Dora Greenwell’s engagement with the myth of Proserpine through an analysis of the motif of the garden, which takes central stage in both accounts. The examination will illustrate how the authors’ outlined images of the garden challenge the dominant representation of the motif within Western literary tradition, offering a re-interpretation of the myth as social commentary.

Durch Tiefe Nacht Zum Weihnachtslicht, Johanna Ulmann

Drama and Film

No abstract provided.

Idealistic Study Of Proverbs In “Zarbulmasal” Of Gulkhani, Saodat Abdurakhimovna Kodirova

Scientific reports of Bukhara State University

Introduction. "Zarbulmasal" is a unique example of Uzbek prose art, as well as a unique original work in terms of structure, content, language, sharpness of artistic means. A great deal of attention has been given to this work by artistic people, as it’s literary critics, originality in terms of content and ideological direction totally differs from other works. In this article, the ideological, artistic and historical features of “Zarbulmasal” are elucidated. Proverbs are one of the oldest popular genres of Uzbek folklore, which reflects the worldview, attitude to society and moral norms of the people. In this article, spiritual and …

Richard Wilbur's Book Of Nature, William Tate

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.

Festgrüße: Gespräche, Gedichte Und Kleine Festspiele, Caroline Rhiem

Poetry

"The digital copy of this text was taken from the holdings of the Basel Mission Archives. The Basel Mission is now integrated with Mission-21. We are grateful for the contributions by the BMA and the permission to post these texts on the Sophie Digital Library. The BMA provides access to a large selection of digitized visual and cartographic material, as well as comprehensive catalogue data from the Basel Mission Archives: some 30,000 images, 6,700 maps, sketches and plans, and detailed references to written records. You can visit their sites at: Basel Mission Archives: http://www.bmarchives.org/ Mission-21: http://www.mission-21.org/"

Agim: Erzählt Aus China, Anna Oehler

Poetry

"The digital copy of this text was taken from the holdings of the Basel Mission Archives. The Basel Mission is now integrated with Mission-21. We are grateful for the contributions by the BMA and the permission to post these texts on the Sophie Digital Library. You can visit their sites at: Basel Mission Archives: http://www.bmarchives.org/ Mission-21: http://www.mission-21.org/"

Karakalpak Folk Songs Are A Special Kind Of Folklore, Esimxan Kanaatov Doctorant

Science and Society

The article provides information on the history of the Karakalpak people in the period of the emergence of the Saka-Massaget and Turkic peoples, and for the first time the historical poems recorded among the Taulibay Karakalpaks were submitted for scientific discussion. There are also spoken about the genre, content, historical value and character of the historical songs of the Karakalpak people from the XIII century to the 20s of the XX century.

The article briefly discusses the classification of historical songs and comments on the role of tropes in increasing the effectiveness of historical songs.