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Poem, Swim
Poem, Swim is a collection of my poems written during the past year while I was living in Spain. They encompass my experiences in a foreign culture as well as bringing together all that I have learned about in poetry in the classroom. Influenced by certain poets like Charles Olsen and Robert …
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The Modernist Quoting Poem
… texts in their poetry and founded the "quoting poem," a technical innovation that helped characterize the Modernist revolution. Through its appropriating another texture, quoting introduces doubleness into the quoting poem. Understood as textural doubleness, quotation modifies many definitions …
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Redwall Symphonic Poem for Orchestra
Redwall is programmatically based off of the Redwall book series by Brian Jacques. The story takes place in a medieval world where animals are given human characteristics. The protagonist, Martin, is a slave mouse who becomes a warrior to avenge the death of his father at the hands of Badrang the …
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MEMORIC FORM: POEM AS MEMORY
… in the Snow</em> is a narrative long poem, much like a novel in verse that deals with the loss of memory and environmental rebirth. In the book, the narrator exiles himself into a frozen nature and attempts to return the frozen wasteland into its former, flourishing environment. The …
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PoEM : a parser of emotion metaphors
… one approach to the problem and presents PoEM, a prototype system which recognizes and interprets metaphoric descriptions of emotions and mental states in single-sentence input. Building upon previous work in knowledge-based metaphor comprehension, this research adopts a goal-driven …
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Carnivalized narratives in the postmodern long poem
As a decidedly American tradition, the long poem has become the premier literary endeavor for poets in the twentieth-century. Writers such as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams have pursued the long poem, but under the auspices of the "modern epic." Three postmodern long …
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Earthrise / Moonrise: A symphonic poem in three movements
… notes: Earthrise / Moonrise is a symphonic poem that explores the relationship of two celestial bodies. The reigning scientific model is that our moon was once a part of the Earth's crust, and that it `broke off' when the Earth was struck by a large object; that an outside force tore out a …
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Boudica & field notes towards a dynamic film-poem form
… comprises an original, book-length sequence of poems, Boudica, and a film-poem of the same name. Boudica engages in a topographical mediation on East Anglia, specifically the landscapes of Norfolk and north Suffolk. The subject of the sequence is Boudica, a young woman trapped within a stifling …
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Music and the English Lyric Poem: Explporations in Conceptual Blending
Music and The English Lyric Poem: Explorations in Conceptual Blending Although lyrics are addressed primarily to the ear, the development of lyric poetry, that is of 'lyrical' poetry that is not necessarily meant to be sung , is partly the consequence of the rise of print communication and tends to …
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Self-Referential Anxiety in the Romantic and Modern Long Poem
Many of the long poems on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are characterized by a pronounced self-referential anxiety on the part of their narrators; representatives of this group of poems are Wordsworth's Prelude, William Carlos Williams' Paterson, and Adrienne Rich's "From an Old House in …
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"The Bellows / of Experience": The Modernist Love Poem and Its Legacy
… be a published monograph on the modernist love poem and its implications for literary history. This dissertation fills a major gap in scholarship and speaks to the broader social concerns addressed by public discourse on sex, sexuality, and eros. The body of modernist love poetry includes …
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Symphonic Poem No. 1, Poems on Stone Drums, for Full Orchestra
Symphonic Poem No. 1, Poems on Stone Drums is an orchestral piece with three main sections played in a single continuous movement. Its inspiration comes from a set of ancient Chinese seal scripts on ten drum-shaped stones now preserved in the Palace Museum in Beijing, China. These drum-shaped …
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Jack of All Trades : a symphonic poem for British brass band
… marches and hymns to modern symphonic poems and large-scale programmatic works that challenge the performers. While the music (given the group is entirely comprised of brass players and percussionists) may be incredibly challenging, their efforts are rewarded with the compelling stories …
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The Political Aesthetic of the Medieval Persian Prison Poem, 1100-1200
… Aesthetic of the Medieval Persian Prison Poem, 1100-1200 traces the dissemination of the medieval Persian prison poem (habsiyyat) from South Asia to the Caucasus in the context of the contemporaneous developments in literary and political theory that shaped this genre. Varying attitudes …
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Using Modern Portfolio Theory to Analyze Virgil's Aeneid (or Any Other Poem)
… by Virgil. The poet died before completing his poem. The relative completeness of the books of the Aeneid are quantitatively determined by applying Markowitz's modern portfolio theory. Modern portfolio theory optimizes the weights of the securities in a portfolio to maximize the expected return …
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Cultic Allusions In The Suffering Servant Poem (Isaiah 52:13-53:12)
… Hebrew cultic allusions in the Suffering Servant Poem (Isa 52:13-53:12) in order to discover the nature or meaning of the suffering of Yahweh's Servant. The survey of literature reveals that the background of the Suffering Servant Poem is to be found in the Hebrew cultus. Thus the nature or …
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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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