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Father To Son, Theresa Monteiro

CutBank

No abstract provided.

Poinsettia Family: On The Poetics Of Forgiveness And Apology, Joshua M. Martelon

Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts

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Twentieth-Century Feminine Visionary Poetics : Vulnerable Visions Of Survival And Healing:, Lucyna Prostko

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

H.D. and Denise Levertov, two visionary poets of the twentieth century, represent both female poets’ awakening of political and historical consciousness and their engagement with the poetics of vulnerability and survival. H.D. and Levertov offer lyrical visions that dismantle the binaries of real and unreal, earthly and transcendent, and individual and communal. The subject of this project is visionary imagination and its various reverberations, limitations, and potentialities. What is at stake in feminine visionary twentieth-century poetics is the creation of imaginative worlds, the space of possibility, and the shaping of a lyrical form that encompasses the voices of survival, vulnerability, …

The Undoing, Mason Wray

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A collection of poems.

Less The Light, Michael Martella

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This is a collection of poetry.

Your One Wild And Precious Life: The Prayer-Poems Of William Blake & Mary Oliver, Amanda Iacampo

Master's Theses

The poetry of illuminated printmaker William Blake is remembered long after his death and the passing of the Romantic Movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His collection, Songs of Innocence and Experience, examines individualism in celebration of the natural world and connections with God, or the divine, by using animals as subjects and metaphors for the human condition. Readers of Blake's work can see the influence of his "prayer-poems" in the works of other writers, such as the late American poet Mary Oliver, whose poetry is also rich in religious undertones. While Blake's "The Lamb" and its …

Milk Tooth, 2021, Bemidji State University, Tobiloba Aiyedun, Ardaschir Arguelles, Geneva Basye, Owen Besancon, Emily Comstock, Shawn Cruze, Nathan Datres, Joy Eastman, Misty Fear, Austin Fiedler, Greg Gentry, Alex Goehring, Luna Harbour, Kassandra Hart, Ashley Kinnard, Jewel Kraus, Adam Lacrosse, Jennifer Lavin, Daltyn Lofstrom, Stephanie Martin, Lauren Moberg, Danae Moksnes, Erin Muenter, Natalie Nelson, Alex Polchow, Tyler Solheim, Coralie Swedburg, Meghan Trimble, Sam Walker, Faith Weber, April Westlund, Sarah Williamson

Milk Tooth

"Writing by Bemidji State University Students". Sponsored by the Bemidji State University English Department

A Father At 1.5 Metres: Poems Of Pandemic And Fatherhood, Edward J. Leeming

Theses : Honours

'A Father at 1.5 Metres: Poems of Pandemic and Fatherhood' is a 36 poem collection with a connecting theme of uncertainty informed by John Keats‟ concept of negative capability. Negative capability, a term introduced by Keats in 1817, suggests that a writer is benefitted by a refusal of the formation of concrete ideas, that being in uncertainty without needlessly chasing after truth allows for a better understanding of the world, and of more perspectives in their writing. The negatively capable writer is more open to possibilities and of exploring new ideas; this allows them to pursue what Keats calls “beauty”, …

Fighting The Tragedy Of The Commons (Poem), Olivia Romo

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Dear America (American Dream), Luisa Igloria

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Synthesis, Gari Eberly

Honors Theses

Synthesis is a scientifically-aware collection of poetry that explores how gender relations and race amalgamate to impact the maturation of an individual. Employing both sonnet and computer code, I reflect on my experiences as a mixed-raced girl growing up in central Pennsylvania, my growth through several romantic relationships, and how I currently navigate male-dominated spaces as a woman.

For the past four years, I have sought to bridge the gap between my two academic commitments: poetry and science. Both poetry and science exist as a means to ask and answer questions about the messy interactions that shape personalities and relations …

“Rizal Walks Along The Foxgloves”, Eugene Gloria

English Faculty publications

No abstract provided.

The Joy Of Listening: Three Voices In The Poetry Of Wisława Szymborska, Mimi Thompson

CMC Senior Theses

One of the greatest feats that a poet may achieve in his or her lifetime is to develop a voice so characteristic of themself, it would be impossible to confuse it with that of any other poet. Polish-speaking and non-Polish-speaking scholars alike have agreed that the voice of 1996 Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska is utterly distinct, despite the fact that her poems explore a wide range of topics and are told from multiple narrative perspectives, rarely featuring herself through any personal details. How, then, is it possible for hundreds of poems, each with their own narrator, to still be “heard” …

On The Total Communicative Efficacy Of Music And Its Synthesis To Written Word Through Bob Dylan And Kendrick Lamar, Skyler Addison

CMC Senior Theses

In a social conversation, words spoken carry less than 35% of the interaction’s social meeting, with 65% conveyed by the non-verbal. While poetry relies on the word and it's subtext, songwriting may also weld the other 65%. By dissecting the dynamic communicative aspects of song, modern poets may find useful ways in which they can make their lines have more staying power with the listener, encompassing both the rhythmic catchiness of their lines to an all-encompassing emotive transfer. We may isolate the interwoven components of a song that dictate how a story is told in order to better understand how …

Sampling The Hors D’Oeuvres: Exploratory Poetics In Archives And Special Collections, Patrick Williams

Librarian Publications

This lesson plan engages students with primary materials as ingredients for creative work, with attention to the ways researchers read and notice in archives and special collections. This hands-on creative activity helps students to identify and analyze many facets of materials in a special collections setting, and it allows students to explore those materials together. Students create found poems based on a prompt distributed by the librarian-instructor and then engage in reflective sharing of the poems. The prompt draws students toward the textual, paratextual, and metadata elements of materials, and the sharing of poems among students highlights the variety of …

Going Back Through, Cassandra Rae Lee

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

These are poems from between 2018 and 221 during which time the author continuously sought out romance, rearranged the furniture , and adopted animals. Amidst this unresolve, primary preoccupations were closeness, what we accrue+conceal, and the forces that guide poems into arrangement. Secondary preoccupations were dust, amnesia, distraction, conduits, and the seething junction of forces where contradiction can be held.

Still Learning: Covid Through The Eyes Of A Medical Student, Alexis Strahan

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

As a first-year medical student when the COVID-19 pandemic found a foothold, I felt an overwhelming amount of emotions that accompanied the pandemic’s spread. Fear, although a reasonable choice, was not the first emotion that I experienced. In fact, it was a general feeling of paralysis. I had not six months prior taken an oath to commit my career and life to the service of the public’s health care needs, yet I could provide little more than the textbook knowledge of biochemistry or genetics from my first semester of learning. My hands felt unarmed and unskilled for the fight. What …

On Tasso In Prison By Charles Baudelaire, Sharon Fish Mooney

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Translation of and commentary on Baudelaire's "On Tasso in Prison," which is an ekphrastic poem after Delacroix's painting of the same name.

Four Poems By Toshiko Hirata, Eric Hyett, Spencer Thurlow

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Translations of "Is It February?" "Is It March?" "Is It November Again?" and "Is It December Again?"

Lullaby By Rainer Maria Rilke And Amen By Georg Trakl, Wally Swist

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No abstract provided.

Drops From Black Candles By Abdallah Zrika, Mike Baynham

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English translation of Abdallah Zrika's "Drops from black candles" accompanied by an essay on the translation process which includes consideration of Laâbi's French translation of the same poem.

While Dreaming, While Writing (Excerpt) By Max Alhau, Patrick Williamson

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A free rendering of Max Alhau's "While dreaming, while writing," with commentary. The original source text is included.

Corona By Paul Celan, David Capps

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Five Poems By Michael Krüger, Louise Stoehr

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Two Poems By Charles Baudelaire, Arnold Johnston

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Arnold Johnston's translations of Baudelaire's "The Lovely Ship" and "Invitation to the Voyage."

Blue Crystal By Martha Hofmann, Paul J. Shlichta

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A translation of a German poem by Martha Hofmann into English verse. The commentary includes a brief biography of Hofmann and a link to additional information.

Two Poems By Nohad Salameh, Susanna Lang

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Susanna Lang's translations of Nohad Salameh's "I Greet You, My Twin" and "Dance of the One/the Moon."

Four Sonnets By Feng Zhi, Emily Goedde

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Translation of Feng Zhi's Sonnets 6, 12, 16, and 18 by Emily Goedde.

Six Poems By Safiye Can, Marilya V. Reese

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Translations into English of six pieces of poetry by Safiye Can, Circassian-German poet from Offenbach.

P.E.N member Safiye Can pronounced like John), award-winning and best-selling Circassian poet from Offenbach, is a German citizen. Can studied philosophy, psychoanalysis and law at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main and is the recent recipient of two prestigious literary prizes (Else Lasker-Schüler Poetry prize and Alfred-Müller-Felsenburg Prize for Civil Courage in Literature). Can’s work examining the place of the individual in society reframes concepts of home and belonging. Safiye Can was featured at the 20^th annual, week-long Leselenz, Germany’s largest non-urban literary …

From The Villa By Lucretius, James E. Fowler

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"From the Villa" is an epistolary poem in hexameters whose argument is loosely based on the Lucretius's De Rerum Natura. It is addressed to Lucretius's putative dedicatee/patron Gaius Memmius, a contemporary politician and poet.