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Showing 1 to 20 of 123 for “"a poem"”.
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Stepping Back to Move Forward : A Poem Written in Light and Brick
… mankind and is loved a lot. "Architecture is a poem written in light and brick," and brick can be a material that makes use of the essence of architecture: practicality and art. In fact, that the most common building around us is a brick building is evidence that the brick is imprinted with …
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Die referensialiteit van literêre taalgebruik, meer spesifiek die implikasieverskynsels en die rol daarvan vir die interpretasie en evaluering van 'n literêre teks
… of the implication in the interpretation of a poem, and also points out the referencialities of implicati.o n which could influence the evaluation of a literary text. The study largely concerns itself with theory, but the theoretical points of view are constantly tested against specific …
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Sin, History, and Liberty: Milton, Anna Letitia Barbauld, and Anne Grant in the Eighteen Hundreds
… Barbauld's Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem and Anne Grant's Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen, A Poem as well as Milton's presence in both texts. I argue that Grant does not merely offer a conservative counter to Barbauld's liberal condemnation of English politics during England's military …
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The Pen is a Thing The Hand Already
… the reader’s understanding of self. This is a poem.
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I Won't Be Reconstructed: Good Old Rebels, Civil War Memory, And Popular Song
… of the author, who composed the words as a poem in 1867. Unlike most works on Civil War memory, this work then places emphasis on the period since the turn of the twentieth century up to the present, delving into the trajectory of the “Good Old Rebel” from a poem to a folk song to its most …
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Fragments of a previous, grander, project
Formally, this poem is constructed to discover what sorts of apparent meanings and resonances may be engendered by assembling fragmented and disjunctive units as parts of a whole, and also, if possible, to discover what's lost in the same process. The poem is assembled in one hundred and eight …
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Cliff's Notes
<p>Cliff's Notes is a book of poems in three parts. The first section, "Women and Children," introduces us to the humorous psyche of the speaker. "Ad for a Poem," the title poem of part two, is a long poem detailing a hypothetical, advertising and poetic brainstorm between ad men George Lois and …
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Entering and Revealing of Architecture_ A Kindergarten at Windmill Hill Park
… sound, light, and color. It is the preface of a poem that will lead you to fall in love with the rhythm of the building. It is where beauty begins and never ends.
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Notes towards & Maggie Nelson’s Rhetorical Fictions: a study of Bluets
This thesis comprises a poem titled ‘Notes Towards’ (72 pages), a bridging statement titled ‘On writing about my grandfather’ (6,641 words) and a study of American poet Maggie Nelson’s book Bluets (2009) titled ‘Maggie Nelson’s Rhetorical Fictions: A Study of Bluets’ (24,599 words excl. …
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A study of children's theatre.
… some supervised goal; as a painting, a play, a poem, a song, a piece of sculptor, or a dance. The end product of such a program is a well-integrated adult, superior in taste, individual in approach and creative in thought.
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Heathens and how they're made
This thesis contains 23 poems with an introduction in which I explain how I craft my poetry. In the introduction, I use examples from both critical and creative sources to identify tools I utilize during the craft process of a poem. The subject matter of the poems within this thesis ranges from …
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Poesie en religie : 1) gelykenisse ; 2) die religieuse tematiek in die gedigte van tagtig met spesifieke verwysing na T.T. Cloete se Job-gedigte
… century, with specific reference to the Job poems of T.T. Cloete. By using various theoretical works the concept religious was discussed as well as the character of a poem with a religious thematics. Six evaluation principles were formulated which were used to analyse poems in order to …
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The Chimney
… is nothing worse, I think, than paraphrasing a poem, much less a whole manuscript of poems. Doing so wrongly implies that poetry exists mainly as ideas, and not, as it truly does, as words. Thus, that an "abstract" should summarize the writing in this thesis seems to me not only impossible, but …
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Finding the Self
… original creation to the finished product of a poem. In my critical introduction, I discuss the craft techniques of Billy Collins, E. E. Cummings, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Brenda Hillman, Ted Kooser, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lynn McMahon, Mary Oliver, Charles Olsen, Theodore Roethke, and Wallace …
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Die Goueverhouding in die struktuur van Vergilius se Ecloga-boek (Afrikaans)
Vergil's poems are exceptionally complex and polyhedral. An understanding and interpretation of the deeper meaning are further hindered by the fluency of the surface structure. A structural analysis is an excellent way to penetrate to the deeper levels of a poem. Since studies on the symbolic …
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Ekphrasis and ethics in the poetry of W.B. Yeats and Eavan Boland.
… the age-old subgenre of ekphrasis, in which a poem responds to a work of visual art. I explore how both poets explode the boundaries of poetic form and ekphrastic tradition to re-imagine ekphrasis not as an abstract rivalry between modes of representation, but rather as an ethical encounter …
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Now All the Fingers of This Tree
… Tree is a work in two movements based upon a poem of the same name by E. E. Cummings. It is divided into two movements: The first movement is scored for nine part solo soprano, where one performer records each of the nine vocal lines. The second movement is an electro-acoustic work derived …
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Metaphors of the sea : a critical study of five Anglo-Saxon poems
… to the appreciation of five selected Anglo-Saxon poems - The Wanderer, The Seafarer, Exodus, Andreas, and Beowulf - by analysing their metaphoric use of the sea. Metaphor is an essential and distinctive element of all poetry and, to be genuine, to be alive, and to be ever-interesting, a poem must …
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The Beaten Pathos
The Beaten Pathos is a manuscript of poems written by a shelter dog--a shelter dog whose distrust of both his reader-dogs and himself amplifies his need to communicate. More often than not, the result is a poem borne of an imagination both ostentatiously loud and cutting at an oblique angle, like a …
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The Severed Son and other poems (Original writing)
… one purpose when I write--that would smother the poem--but if there is one thing I am seeking, it is honest portrayal, the truth of the feeling; As far as the creative process is concerned, I let the poem come, with all its sounds, plays on words, multiple meanings. I let it form into its own mode …
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