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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Nature Imagery"”.
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Nature Imagery in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke and James Dickey
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Pretty Weeds
… utilizes playful language, sensory and nature imagery and forms such as prose, sestina, long line and tercets, in addition to other traditional craft elements, in order to transform observation and introspection into poetry.</p>
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Widows' Breath: Grief Fractures
… manuscript is set in Appalachian Kentucky with nature imagery wherein the place and its culture frame each protagonist’s exploration. As they deconstruct their experience of grief, vacillate through past and present thinking, memorializing the lost one while struggling toward a new identity, …
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Lucretian stillness and motion as political metaphors in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
My dissertation examines the contrast between stillness and motion in Ovid’s Metamorphoses as well as its connection to two other polarities in the poem: silence–sound and stagnation–fluidity. I argue that Ovid treats these three polarities as analogous and gives them political meaning, with …
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Ecology of the color line: race and nature in American literature, 1895-1941
… “Ecology of the Color Line: Race and Nature in American Literature, 1895-1941” reimagines many literary genres and critical disputes traditionally focalized through problematics of race and politics: the Washington—Du Bois debates on racial uplift, New Negro cultural nationalism, the …
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‘“Tantalizing Vagueness”: Intimacy and Distance in Edward Thomas’s Poetry’ with a practice-by-research poetry collection, ‘The Things I Could Not Say’.
… Chapter 1 explores how Thomas writes about nature, and what it reveals about his sense of self and belonging. Nature is problematic for Thomas, and the speaker in ‘The Things I Could Not Say’, but it also provides clarity and solace. Chapter 2 analyses Thomas’s imagery, and how his speakers …