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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Political Poetry"”.
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The Political Poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A Conservative Statement on the Domestic and Foreign Affairs of Victorian England
… day, and these interests are manifested in his poetry. Much has been written on Tennyson's religious and scientific ideas as he spoke and wrote of them; less has been said of his political poetry and the influences which affected it. It is very likely that the poet took more interest in these …
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Engaging aesthetics: American poetry and politics, 1925-1950
… the background questions of aesthetic quality in political poetry. But many poets active during the 1930's and 1940's saw political engagement and poetic accomplishment as mutually reinforcing. These poets recognized that effective political poetry must fashion imagined communities, collections of …
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Problems of the 'Political' in British Avant-Garde Poetry and Poetics, 2003-2012
… addresses formal and conceptual problems in poetry, identified through critical investigations of my own and my poetic peers’ work, and through theoretical and philosophical texts (Butler, 2000; Hegel, 1807; Owens, 1980; Rose, 1996; Kappeler, 1986). The notion of a ‘political’ poetry, as …
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Table of the Sun
… of varied ecological, romantic, and/or political disasters ranging from the Dakota Access Pipeline, cruel love, and Donald Trump. Some poems are reckonings, and others work to heal trauma, heartache, clinical illness, and supernatural afflictions like those experienced by the Tarantati …
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"All violence is not equal"; Adrienne Rich's Post-9/11 Poetry and the Precarious Life
… late twentieth and early twenty-first century poetry often blends the personal with the political as it responds to the ever shifting cultural, social, and political landscape of the United States. In my thesis, I analyze Rich's final three postmillennial poetry collections, <italics>The School …
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'All Other Faculties Must Be Silent': Victorian Motherhood and the Divided Female Self
… in the context of the critical responses to her political poetry, this poem demonstrates the intrinsic incompatibility between a woman's identity as purveyor of cultural values to her children, and her physical, biological involvement in bearing and raising children. Chapter three focuses on East …
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Libertad: A Novel
… her phone back comes with a price, as both her political poetry and secret romance risk being exposed to Mamí and Abuela—the women who have sacrificed everything to raised her. The pillars of her life. In the midst of civil unrest, Libertad learns of the power and heartbreak in queerness, …
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Ebenezer Elliott : A study of his poetry, 1781-1849.
… considering the response he makes in his poetry to his social environment as that is shaped by the impact of the Industrial Revolution on his native South Yorkshire during his lifetime (1781 - 1848).While this response to context in his verse remains central, the particular quality of …
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Glasgow's Red Clydeside and the politics of poetry
… close-reading, this thesis recovers and explores poetry from Glasgow’s Red Clydeside period (c. 1910 to 1932). Though the Red Clydeside period occupies an important place in Scottish labour history, and remains powerfully relevant for left-wing political activists in the present, the poetry of the …
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A Forgotten Bestselling Author: Laura Terracina in Early Modern Naples
… Naples, seeing her as a product of her family’s political standing within the city, her academician status, and her own construction of an urban coterie of supporters. The second chapter considers the mechanics of the journey into print, assessing Terracina’s own input and her close collaboration …
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Unsex'd Women: The Politics of Transgression in the Poetry of Anna Laeticia Barbauld and Charlotte Smith.
… literary movement. Readings of women's poetry in relation to this movement have led to the construction of their work in terms of the defining 'Other' to male Romanticism, and as a consequence their poetry has been defined as primarily concerned with the domestic and the quotidian. My …
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The Poetry of Tom Raworth (1961-1986)
This dissertation explores the poetry of Tom Raworth from his first collection, The Relation Ship (1966) to the publication of his long poem ‘West Wind’ in 1984. It investigates in particular the poetry’s embeddedness in the artistic, cultural and socio-political contexts of the sixties, seventies …