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Romanticism in Dylan Thomas' poetry
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Dylan Thomas and the experiences of reading
… languages for writing about the poetry of Dylan Thomas. Central to this is an understanding of Thomas’s ambiguity: his poems are fluid and unstable in their influences, semantics, voices, and sounds, and can offer us rich and varied experiences of reading when we give his ambiguities their …
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Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger and the Movement Persona
… this thesis discusses how the personas of Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger contribute to the movement persona of those fighting for social change in 1960s America. A textual analysis of three songs of Bob Dylan and three songs of Pete Seeger serve as the artifacts for this thesis. Themes of change, …
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"As-Yet-Still-Forgiven Past": Dylan Thomas and Nostalgia
Dylan Thomas exhibited a variety of nostalgic influences within his poetry. A careful study of his life will reveal a nostalgia that evolved from adolescent musings upon an ideal past, to a self-destructive urge to return to innocence through death. Thomas incorporates a variety of historical …
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Spontaneous Minds and Electric Romanticism: Kerouac, Ginsberg, Dylan, Joplin
… Romanticism: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, and Janis Joplin. Kerouac’s and Ginsberg’s electric Romanticism resembles the acoustic, but the Beats’ cultural landscape contained technological advancements they used to achieve spontaneous writing—such as typewriters, automobiles, and tape …
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Dylan Thomas and the Metaphysical Mode: A Study of Shared Sensibilities
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Adam Naming And Aesop Fabling: Artist-figures In The Prose Works Of Dylan Thomas
… the rich but relatively neglected prose works of Dylan Thomas, and to examine the numerous self-referential and metafictional instances within them. Many of the prose works contain representational forms such as dreams, fantasies, maps, books, and stories. Also predominant are a variety of artist …
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Poetry in process: The compositional practices of D.H. Lawrence, Dylan Thomas and Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin used the image of Winston Smith's blank notebook in George Orwell's 1984 to illustrate the excitement experienced by the writer faced with an as yet unwritten text. He explains that: the books the past has given us are printed; they are magnificent, but they are finite. Only the blank …
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Feeding the hunger of history: society and politics in Dylan Thomas's prose and dramatic works
… a much more considered and nuanced reading of Dylan Thomas’s political outlook than extant criticism has tended to present. It makes a case for the reading of Thomas’s socialism as intrinsic to his ethical vision, and explores this through close analytical attention to his prose and dramatic …
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The Bardic Style In The Poetry Of Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Butler Yeats, And Dylan Thomas
… Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Butler Yeats, and Dylan Thomas that have been difficult to account for. Although each of these writers is generally engaged with modern poetics and sensitive to the issues of his time, certain characteristics of the work--such as Hopkins' unusual diction, Yeats's …
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A performer's guide to John Corigliano's Mr Tambourine Man - Seven Poems to text by Bob Dylan
… Mr. Tambourine Man – Seven Songs to text by Bob Dylan, since up to date there has not been another documented score analysis of the particular piece from a conductor’s standpoint. The monograph aims to contribute to the performance practice, by reviewing the conductor’s preparation process, and …
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The Force is with You: Dylan Thomas's Force as it Exists in His Poetry and Drama.
<p>In Dylan Thomas's poetry, he refers to an inexorable, amoral force that exists within the universe. This force exists in all things, yet cannot be manipulated. His first collection, <em>18 Poems</em>, serves as the premier source for defining and understanding the existence of this force. Two …
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An examination of the sacramental vision of Dylan Thomas: its sources, analogues and its expression in his poetry
… and disease gripping society, the voice of Dylan Thomas sounds as a counterpoint, evincing a note of optimism for man and society, expressing a hope that both might achieve reintegration, and, thereby, a new life. This optimistic note, this expression of hope evolved from a vision which …
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Uudelleenkäännöshypoteesin toteutuminen reaalioiden valossa Dylan Thomasin teoksessa Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog ja sen kahdessa suomennoksessa
Tutkielmassa tutkitaan Dylan Thomasin englanninkielisen novellikokoelman Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (2014/1940) kahta suomennosta: Sandellin Taiteilijan omakuva nuoruuden penikkavuosilta (1963) ja Ville-Juhani Sutisen Taiteilijan omakuva nuoruuden koiravuosilta (2024) tavoitteena …
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Obscurity and the mythic quest for shape: a discussion and explication of Dylan Thomas' Altarwise by Owl-light
Dylan Thomas' obscure sonnet sequence, Altarwise by Owl-light, has "inspired more comment and caused more disagreement than anything else by Thomas." Reading the sequence is like experiencing a confused nightmare or dream vision, for the poem is curiously primitive and myth-like. Through the …
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The Apollonian and Dionysian Modes in Lyric Poetry and Their Development in The Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Dylan Thomas
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Desolation Road
… Row,” a song written and performed by Bob Dylan in 1965. Filled with surrealist imagery, historical and literary characters, as well as, graphic depictions of institutional decadence and decay, the haunting lyrics and rhythmic strum-pattern of Dylan’s composition echo the shattered world of …
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‘This is what Salvation must be like after a While’: Bob Dylan’s Critical Utopia
Bob Dylan’s work has frequently been the object of discussion, debate and scholarly research. It has been commented on in terms of interpretation of the lyrics of his songs, of their musical treatment, and of the distinctiveness of Dylan’s performance style, while Dylan himself has been treated …
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Ten Percent to Light a Desert Sky
… Federico Garcia Lorca, Lorine Niedecker, and Bob Dylan---as well as lessons learned through careful study with Aliki Barnstone, Claudia Keelan, Douglas Unger, Mark Irwin, and Megan Becker-Leckrone The thesis is organized in four sections: Mojave Lowlight attempts to define the collections physical …
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