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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"persona poems"”.
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Delilah Returns Home
… a mixture of semi-autobiographical verse, persona poems, and dramatic monologues. My main objectives in this thesis were to capture a balance between autobiographical details and fiction, narrative and lyric modes, and difficulty and accessibility in order to demonstrate how poetry is not …
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Beneath the Body's Disguise: Poems
… and storytellers” (Palermo 2). The ideas of persona poems, spatial economy, and confessional poetry are all considered in the opening section which introduces the themes – death, physical violence, pornography, and hope. David Mura, Ai, and Adrienne Rich, among others, are poets credited with …
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Hyphen
Hyphen is a selection of twenty-eight poems (lyrical, narrative and persona poems) and two prose vignettes. The pieces explore ideas of memory, identity, emptiness, loss, love and joy. They are rooted in an itinerant experience of this world and question the concepts of belonging, home, usefulness, …
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Wager
… the collection varies widely, including list poems, persona poems, prose poems, poems in a series, ultra-talk poems and highly lyrical pieces. The speaker is a playful and brutally introspective poet who writes about loss with an empowered female voice, and Wager showcases the complications of …
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Little Girl Gods
… thesis, Little Girl Gods, is a collection of poems in three parts. The poems presented here aim to follow a speaker through young girlhood, adolescence, and early adulthood, where the speaker struggles with sloughing off the identity of a girl for that of a woman. The second section, “Little …
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a people blessed, a land teeming
… thesis manifests a lifelong obsession of my personal connection with the Hatfield-McCoy Feud through a critical analysis of my particular writing process, influences, and considerations in the endeavor to develop a creative manuscript which strives to reframe contemporary treatments of the …
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My America
… 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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Understudy
… of this dissertation is a collection of poems that reflect my interest with performance and performativity in terms of identity, race, gender, bodies, and language. I expand upon my <em>Madame Butterfly</em> series, a sequence of persona poems written from the point-of-view of the titular …