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Fire On The Tongue: A Collection Of Poems, Nathan Adam White

Theses and Dissertations

The Influence of Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney My relationship with poetry has been complex. I once felt that poetry, my last friend and greatest hope, had betrayed me, had shut me out and left me very alone. My pen lacked the power that poetry had promised as the last refuge of those who wished to breathe deeply, speak intimately, and inspire intensely. Others had the power to move me, but I seemed incapable of moving others; my lines lacked clarity, my phrases caused confusion. In a mood of irritable desperation I wrote these lines:

You live in the world, …

Three Appearances Of Literary Youth And A New Definition, Alexander Turner

Senior Independent Study Theses

An analysis of the Chinese term "Literary Youth." Three Chinese poets were interviewed and their work analyzed in order to understand what subset of the Chinese population the term refers to, paying particular attention to historical changes in Chinese society and the effect on Literary Youth, the modern manifestation of Literary Youth, and what timeless qualities of humanity connect Literary Youth to one another.

Going Into The Word-Hoard: The Writing Process, Language, And Its Implications In The Poetry Of Medbh Mcguckian And Paul Muldoon, Elizabeth Peele

Theses and Dissertations

As two prominent figures of Northern Irish poetry, Medbh McGuckian and Paul Muldoon are often discussed as being "difficult" and "oblique." However, I argue that this categorization of their poetry is too simplistic and overlooks the dissimilarities in their writing process and view of language, and ultimately, in their poetry itself. By going back to the fundamentals of their works, I claim that the basis for this dissimilarity is, in fact, a differing view of the founding blocks of poetic language. McGuckian sees syntax as being the important factor while Muldoon focuses on the individual lexical meaning of words. These …

Heirlooms, Candace Gayle Wiley

Theses and Dissertations

This creative thesis is a collection of poems and an essay that explores the concept of defining the self through the influence of personal and cultural heirlooms. It is particularly concerned with the inheritances that children receive, whether they are a pair of stockings or a political atmosphere. This collection consists of five sections, submitted in partial fulfillment of University of South Carolina's Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing.

Three Words: Foreign, Nina Stojkovic

Dissertations and Theses

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Things I Know, Tomoko Sawada

Dissertations and Theses

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Poetic Instructions On How To Stretch Brain Muscles & Examine Carnal Desires, Guil Parreiras

Dissertations and Theses

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Scarecrone, Melissa Broder

Dissertations and Theses

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Dangerous Instincts, Kirsten Holt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Dangerous Instincts is a collection of poems unified thematically by recurring and interstitial questions of the wilderness, the natural sciences - particularly astrophysics - the occult, and the mythic universe. These poems explore the mystical implications of the natural world and its meaning in the aesthetic consciousness, particularly in a highly secular century. Implied is the poet’s selfdiscovery and search for the divine. The collection emerges, not simply as interpretation, but a means of coming to terms with the fear of and compulsion to question the universe, and through those questions find illumination in the ordinariness of lived life and …

Close Encounters Of The Best Kind, Shannon Butler

The Utah English Journal

Usually I slip into a student teacher’s class and pull my forms of checklist behaviors from my bag unnoticed. If I am introduced, students give an indifferent glance, then turn their attention back where it belongs. But this morning was different.

The Tigers That Corner Us, Meredith L. Jeffries

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

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Leaves And Shrapnel, Michael Luke Belch

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

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Seeds, Laura Goldstein

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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Homing : Poetry ; &, An Essay On The Poetic Leap In The Late Work Of R.S. Thomas, Shevaun Cooley

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Homing, as a collection, speaks to the capacity and yearning to navigate our way towards something we might call home. In animal behaviour, this seems like an instinct, hard-wired to the body. It is something I envy. By comparison, the instinct, in human behaviour, feels muffled and complicated.

These poems move between two places in which I feel ‘at home’, whatever that means: the south-west of Western Australia, where I was born and raised, and the north-west of Wales, where I lived for a time, and find myself returning to, drawn not by blood, but by longing, and a deep …

From Amber To Darkness, Courtney J. Spencer, Courtney Spencer

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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When Bird And Fish Fall In Love, Matthew C. Mackey

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

A work of poetry that offers a new method of poetics. By examining translation as a means of understanding relationships, this work offers a nuanced manner for the writing and experience of poetry. When Bird and Fish Fall in Love is a close examination of language, relationships, translation, and the intimacy of conflation.

Robinson, Helen E., 1905-1986 And Ruth Robinson, 1897-1991 (Mss 437), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 437. Correspondence of Ruth and Helen E. Robinson, chiefly with cousins and other family members. Most of the letters are incoming Christmas cards filled with family information.

Vol. Xlix, No. 5: The Gothic Heart Of Peter Straub's World, Rhonda Brock-Servais

The Hollins Critic

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This Beginning Of Miracles, Marilyn N. Nielson

BYU Studies

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Teinoscope, Marilyn N. Nielson

BYU Studies

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Prometheus's Role Of The Poet, Sarah M. Connelly

Student Publications

This essay examines the characterization of Prometheus in the opening speech of Prometheus Unbound, by Percy Shelley, through the lens of Shelley’s “Defense of Poetry” in order to argue Prometheus’ existence as a poet. By giving humanity wisdom and bridging the gap between logic and compassion, Prometheus becomes the point from which imagination, beauty, art, and poetry stems. Prometheus’ role developed into a model of morality and love in contrast to the fear and spite of Zeus, whose influence is reflected in the evils of mankind. Yet, through the torturous reign of Zeus, Prometheus transcends his hate by retracting his …

Wheel Of Fortune, Joshua Matthews

Pro Rege

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Upon Learning That April Is Genocide Prevention Month, David Schelhaas

Pro Rege

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The Longest Night, Ted Olson

ETSU Faculty Works

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Fallible, Bob De Smith

Pro Rege

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Infallible, Bob De Smith

Pro Rege

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Quakes Beneath The Sea, Mary Dengler

Pro Rege

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Egret, Mary Dengler

Pro Rege

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White Linen, Mary Dengler

Pro Rege

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Taking My Dad Fishing, Howard Schaap

Pro Rege

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