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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"W.H. Auden."”.
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Myths of place : the importance of landscape in the poetries of W.H. Auden and Seamus Heaney
… in modern and contemporary poetry. Works on Auden and Heaney make reference to local elements, but do not consider the overall and continuous importance of landscape in their writings. It is hoped that this study goes some way towards remedying these deficiencies.The philosophical and …
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"Still persuade us to rejoice" : witness, place, and gratitude in W.H. Auden and Derek Walcott's poetry.
My dissertation considers W.H. Auden and Derek Walcott's stereoscopic poetic witness. It focuses on movement, place, and gratitude in the Atlantic world, as both authors recurrently travel beyond national boundaries. Both poets use a stereoscopic vision, a nuanced imaginative rendering of the …
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Speech, Voice and Parable: Reading and Writing through Auden (Letters to Auden, a Reading of His Poems, and a Serial Poem of Barack Hussein Obama)
… analyses of four major poetical works by W.H. Auden—“The Watershed”, The Sea and the Mirror, “New Year Letter”, and “In Time of War”; secondly, ten semi-informal letters addressed to W.H. Auden; and thirdly, a serial poem consisting of short and long poems based on the speeches of the public …
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A Country With No Name
… plain-language techniques in poetry, using W.H. Auden, Wislawa Szymborska, and Paul Simon as examples of poets who take a similar approach. The poems range in topic from personal and familial to societal and abstract. The main subjects encompass interpersonal relationships, romantic and …
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Iconoclast in the mirror.
… and Peircian semiotics. Tony Hoagland, W.H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, and the poetic prose of Hélène Cixous provide textual examples of an evolving aesthetic in which the poet's self and world comprise multiple dynamic, open relationships supplanting one in which simple correspondences between …
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Militancy, commitment, and Marxist ideology in the fiction of Dan Billany
… on writers such as John Galsworthy and W.H. Auden show that Billany is trying to develop a truly radical Communist working class literary tradition. As an educated working class man and a committed Communist, Billany offers an alternative view to the traditional and conservative attitudes …
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A Perfect Escape: Fantasy, Place and Narrative in Adolescence
… J.R.R. Tolkien and American Poet W.H. Auden, defining fantasy and its role within storytelling. The essay concludes in defining a method of storytelling that aims to aid in the personal development of its audience by using real life experiences and places, along with narrative, to build …
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Sorry Guard
… poets: Robert Hass, W.S. Merwin, and W.H. Auden. I am most interested in how particular formal decisions shape meaning and value in poetry. My aesthetic approach here primarily dwells on what Helen Vendler calls, "the music of what happens." The urgency of Robert Hass's spoken word is …
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Dissident Secularism: Queer Exegesis, Transatlantic Modernism, and the Discipline of Modernity
… (1888-1965), Hart Crane (1899-1932), and W.H. Auden (1907-1973). As an interdisciplinary study in literary criticism and of each author’s reception history, this thesis reads the poetry, critical prose, and correspondence of Eliot, Crane, and Auden with focused reference to queer theory and …
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Animals of North America, Selected Translations, and the Critical Afterword, “Extending Relational Field Theories: a Correlationist Model of Poetics & Translation”
… languages, and aesthetics: A.R. Ammons, W.H. Auden, Anne Carson, Emily Dickinson, Lo Kwa Mei-en, Francis Ponge, Ed Roberson, William Carlos Williams, and Walt Whitman. The resistance to specialization in the above survey of poets is intentional: the suggestion of a relational field theory of …