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To Be Everything: Sylvia Plath And The Problem That Has No Name, Alanna P. Mcauliffe

Student Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores, in depth, how the poetry of Sylvia Plath operates as an expression of female discontent in the decade directly preceding the sexual revolution. This analysis incorporates both sociohistorical context and theory introduced in Betty Friedan’s 1963 work The Feminine Mystique. In particular, Plath’s work is put in conversation with Friedan’s notion of the “problem that has no name,” an all-consuming sense of malaise and dissatisfaction that plagued American women in the postwar era. This notion is furthered by close-readings of poems written throughout various stages of Plath’s career (namely “Spinster,” “Two Sisters of Persephone,” “Elm,” “Ariel,” “Daddy,” …

If It's Hot, Annelle L. Magnuson

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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& One Night The World Will Have Changed, Hanna Andrews

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

& One Night the World Will Have Changed is a collection of poems largely concerned with thresholds—what does one have to reconcile when standing at a precipice, when grappling with a crisis of faith, and how does one begin again? The collection is marked by three distinct sections: the first section of poems considers the effects of a devastating storm along with the emotional upheaval of abandonment (both the act of having been left, and then later, of leaving behind one life for a different one.) The second section is a series of prose poems that narrate the aftermath in …

Before And After Her Body, Shannon Austin

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This thesis, titled Before and After Her Body, is a full-length poetry manuscript submitted for completion of the Master of Fine Arts – Creative Writing Program. This collection delves into several interconnected themes, including gender, the female body, myth, legacy, and time. Broken into three main sections, these poems build from an examination of women as physical bodies to an exploration of women in conversation with other women and with themselves.

In these poems, characters from myth and popular culture blend with the persona of the narrator, who is at once an observer and a participant, discovering her own tradition …

The New Cambrian Children, Shin Watanabe

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This MFA thesis is comprised of my collection of poetry entitled The New Cambrian Children. There are fifty-five pages of poetry in this thesis exploring themes of nature, technology, dystopia, and childhood.

Much of the contemporary writing and discussion surrounding the natural world and its relationship with humanity and technology imagines dystopia. There is a tendency to see the world arising from industrialization, computing technologies, and the World Wide Web as a violation of nature and human spirit. This book does not refute this emotional tenor, nor does it claim knowledge of its conclusion. Instead, it forwards conversations between these …

Vacation Days - What I Did This Summer, Wren A. Jenkins

Sierpinski’s Square

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To A Proposition Most Despised- A Response To Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress", Wren A. Jenkins

Sierpinski’s Square

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Hip-Hop And Poetry: Listen To The Words, Jordan Dingle

Cultural Studies Capstone Papers

Hip-hop is a subculture that has become a major part of popular culture and heavily affects contemporary music, clothing, and media. The subculture initially started as a way for the historically oppressed to voice themselves and have a dialogue for social dilemmas that were relevant to them. Maintaining this voice of authenticity will become more difficult the larger and more commercialized Hip-hop becomes, thus it is important to identify mediums that are being used to express authenticity through discussion of social dilemmas in Hip-hop culture. This project identifies poetry as a medium that is used to display authenticity in Hip-hop …

Race, Slavery, And Evasion: Whitman And Melville’S Changing Perspectives And Their Glancing Poetic Treatment Of The Core Civil War Issue, Said Hail Fallaha

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Whitman and Melville’s poetry about the Civil War is almost completely silent when it comes to slavery. Both writers depict a newly emancipated person in their poems about the Civil War, but they seem to do so almost as an afterthought. Both Whitman's “Ethiopia Saluting the Colors” and Melville's “Formerly a Slave” represent an elderly African American woman. These poems stand alone in their representation of an African American. Peter J. Bellis argues that both writers were concerned with how to negotiate national emotions and policies by the end of the war and these “emotions” and “policies” were vital to …

Wishing For The Watch Face In Jonathan Swift’S “The Progress Of Beauty”, Jantina Ellens

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

This article illuminates the technological underpinnings of Jonathan Swift’s satire, “The Progress of Beauty” (1719), by exploring how eighteenth-century poetics of beauty and scientific progress pit human against automaton. This article ranges from the ego of masculine technological display to women’s self-identification with the automaton to suggest that Swift’s speaker blazons the aging prostitute’s body with the hope that it might resurrect a lost ideal, the beautiful watch face. Instead, readers are confronted with the vision of Celia who, with her chipped paint, greasy joints, and faulty mechanisms, reminds them that humanity continues to break through its enamel. When readers …

Satori 2018, Winona State University, Emma Lee Cavanaugh, Walker Larson, Eric Leith, Sara Wakeham, Rachel Williams-Belter, Claire Bowman, Cassie Douglas, Danielle Eberhard, Dahlia Garofalo, Grace Hughes, Katelin Kent, Ben Mccrary, Breanna Mcgeorge, Hyewon Oh, Sanja Petrashek, Remington Schmidt, Jiwon Seo, Kristine Smith, Kenneth Tham, Nicole Tompos, Melody Vang, Megan Wefel, Melanie Whitmore, Audrianna Wichman

Satori Literary Magazine

The Satori is a student literary publication that expresses the artistic spirit of the students of Winona State University. Student poetry, prose, and graphic art are published in the Satori every spring since 1970.

The Satori 2018 editors are Sajda Omar (Editor-in-Chief), Kylie Hoff, Keyanna Hultman, Audrey Sitte, Elyse Hoffmann. Art Director and Designer by Elyse Hoffmann. The 2018 Faculty advisor is Dr. Elizabeth Oness, Professor of English.

Real Housewives, Stefanie Hammond

Arrow Rock

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Saying The Words, Lalini Shanela Ranaraja

Vázquez-Valarezo Poetry Award

This poem takes a viscerally personal approach to the "Time's Up" movement's philosophy of making revelations and facing difficult realities.

Freedom, Lalini Shanela Ranaraja

Vázquez-Valarezo Poetry Award

This poem explores the darker side of Facebook's role in sparking online activism and social movements.

Unfound, Samuel C. Kessler

Sierpinski’s Square

"Look on past the horizon and there; rest your eyes then. But alas, this place you cannot see, but you feel it from your core, tis what you seek, surely there; indeed, yes, that is where it rests; but "it" is not, and "where" is never near nor far, for you forget in onlook as you seek, the thing that lies beneath Your feet A dwelling place Of peace unfound."

Harry, Stefanie Hammond

Arrow Rock

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Review Of Stephen Mitchell, Beowulf, Carol A. Leibiger

Faculty Publications

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Writing Under The Influence: The Effects Of Opium On John Keats' Poetry, Katherine Moffitt

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

The poetry of John Keats, a Romantic Era poet who lived from 1795 to 1821, has been widely studied, but most critics have dismissed his use of drugs, specifically opium, to alter his writing. This thesis looks at the scientific effects of opium along with personal accounts of the drug’s use and combines such an investigation with a close reading of Keats’s later poetry to determine what effects opium may have had upon his writing style and content. Particular areas of poetic content include Keats’s sensory imagery and dream-state references.

The Cleanse, Alexa Presslet

Arrow Rock

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Thoughts And Prayers, Christopher T. Keaveney

Faculty Publications

This poem by Christopher T. Keaveney originally appeared in Clementine Unbound.

Leaning Into The Party, Stephen Roberts

Bryant Literary Review

I was having a good time at the party
until I leaned back on the door frame

Block Island Haiku, Fred Yannantuono

Bryant Literary Review

So many hatchbacks.

Summer String Along, Stefanie Hammond

Arrow Rock

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The Swordsmith's Prayer, Chloe Devos

Arrow Rock

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Undercover, Kara Neely

Arrow Rock

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A Dark Room, Kara Neely

Arrow Rock

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Enough, Kara Neely

Arrow Rock

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Hush, Kara Neely

Arrow Rock

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A Typical Sunday Afternoon, Kara Neely

Arrow Rock

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Requiescat In Peace, Kara Neely

Arrow Rock

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