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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Leaves of Grass"”.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams' Sea Symphony: formal structures and analyses informed by poetry
… Written between 1903-1910, the premier of this work occurred during the Leeds Festival on October 12, 1910. This was largest work Vaughan Williams had composed at that time. For the text of this large work, Vaughan Williams used poetry from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. Although he …
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Philosophies, Themes and Symbols in the Poetry of Walt Whitman and Han Yong-Un (Religion, Patriotism, Democracy, Freedom, Independence)
… perspectives may be traced in the poetry of the American Walt Whitman (1819-92) and the Korean Han Yong-Un (1879-1944). Even though no evidence of direct influence of Whitman on Han may be ascertained, there are numerous parallelisms in ideas, attitudes and visions in Whitman's Leaves of …
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Performing Union: Walt Whitman, Participatory Democracy, and Antebellum Performance Culture
… dissertation examines the antebellum editions of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (those published in 1855, 1856, and 1860) within the context of his indebtedness to antebellum performance culture, particularly as represented in the streets, in the theatres, and in the public halls that housed …
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Natural Elements Representing the Cycle of Life and Death through Whitman’s “Song of Myself” and “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”
… Whitman soon became the “one who would sing of the new country in a new voice.”</p> <p>In 1855, Whitman published his first edition of <em>Leaves of Grass</em> and shed light to the wonderful landscapes that America had to offer. One of his focuses laid on the idea that grass was a universal …
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William Blake's American legacy: transcendentalism and visionary poetics in Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman
… dated from Ralph Waldo Emerson's early reading of Songs of Innocence and Experience in 1842. Chapter one will show that the New England Transcendentalists - primarily Emerson, but also Elizabeth Peabody and readers of the transcendentalis publication The Harbinger - were reading Blake's Poetical …
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Fragmented Self
… James Baldwin's views, I believe that the duty of an artist is to provide their audience with an opportunity to rediscover themselves; to help them explore their inner selves. In my experience, to achieve that goal, the first and most important hurdle the artist needs to cross is exploring …
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My America
My dissertation, my America, is partly a series of poems written from the perspective of Modernist photographer Edward Weston. The first section, "Tina mia," is situated in the late 1920's, when he had left his lover and model, Tina Modotti. These poems are imagined as unsent letters written to her …
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Music Inspired by the Works of Robert Frost
… years ago on Easter, my mother gave me a book of Robert Frost’s poems as a gift. As a child, I enjoyed his rhyming schemes and the characteristically simple, beautiful, natural imagery he portrayed in his verses, but the deeper meaning of the words was largely lost on me. As I grew, I would …
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Autobiographical Poetry to Plays: Taking Memoir to a Theatrical Level
… play. The final Capstone Project is a manuscript of an anticipated theatrical production based on the grieving process surrounding my brother's suicide, as well as an exploration of my sexuality and the relationships I developed during the years surrounding his death.</p> <p>The Capstone Project’s …
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Mosaic: a study of juxtaposition in literature, as an approach to Pound's Cantos and similar modern poems
The principles of form in ‘mosaic’ poems such as The Cantos, Paterson, Maximus, or even ‘The Waste Land,’ are not yet clearly understood. Criticism needs to bring its various ideas of ‘musical form,’ ‘non-linear form,’ or ‘the poem as a field of forces’ into sharper focus. Mosaic poems are …
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An analytical study of John Dos Passos' Manhattan transfer
An analysis of Manhattan Transfer yields one very formidable conclusion: it is an extraordinarily contrived work of fiction that is a work of art. The novel is extraordinary because nothing quite like it had ever been done before in American literature; contrived, because it is a carefully wrought, …