poetry
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The Command to Remember: Joy Harjo
The command of Joy Harjo’s poem Remember is exactly as stated in its title- but why? What power and what necessity lies in memory? Harjo’s writing is saturated with poetic devices including anaphora, asyndeton, and anthropomorphism, all creating an emotionally impactful narrative influenced by her native heritage. As a member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation, her Continue reading
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More Thoughts on Eternal Human Themes: Classic Poet Dickinson and Instagram Writer Kate Baer
While different thematic movements in poetry utilize different strategies to create meaning, the art that results has often challenged social conventions in the same way. Romanticism and the poets of the movement enforced strict boundaries around creating poetry from how many syllables there could be per line, rhyme structures, and stanza structures. Modernist poets have Continue reading
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Eternal Human Themes: Sappho’s Fragments and Rich’s Hubble Photographs
In studying both Sappho’s fragments and Rich’s Hubble Photographs: After Sappho, the legacy of art across decades, strengthened by common human interests, can be observed. Poems as old and incomplete as Sappho’s works could be disregarded in our modern time. Their worth could be questioned after so many years. Yet in Rich’s response to Sappho’s Continue reading
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Humanity, Alterity, and the Responsibility of Creation: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein and Milton’s Paradise Lost
I’ve written before about the theme of responsibility in creation as seen in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein, and today I want to go a step further by pointing out the parallels between the aforementioned novel and another culturally significant literary work- John Milton’s Paradise Lost. The original paper I wrote on this was ten pages Continue reading
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Poems as Maps
The art of poetry is an approach to communicating information in a richly visual way, one which has the ability to describe places beyond the extent of maps. Instead of literal pictures with labels, poems map the human train of thought and how one may respond to a place if present. Taiyon J. Coleman wrote Continue reading
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