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Creating an Anthology

My DH project consists of research into how anthologies are arranged and poetry is classified. Anthologies consist of many works that are usually arranged according to certain characteristics. I explore how a modern poetry anthology is created and how the … Continue reading

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Critical Review of Visuals

     Jody Smiling, an author for The Rumpus website, writes a short review for Pethybridge’s Striven that includes excerpts from an interview and analyses of the various features of the poems. She talks about the purely visual qualities of … Continue reading

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1991: Year in Review

Arts and Culture Contemporary artist Damien Hirst opens his first solo exhibition at he Institute of Contemporary Arts. The gallery space consisted of two works of art: Butterfly Paintings and Ashtrays and White Paintings and Live Butterflies. In the upstairs … Continue reading

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Frost’s Thirteenth Line

     Albert von Frank analyzes a line from Frost’s “The Gift Outright”. His focus is on the thirteenth line of the poem and he chooses to frame it as a separate entity from the rest of the poem. He … Continue reading

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Year in Review: 1936

Arts and Culture In June Margaret Mitchell publishes the iconic work Gone With the Wind. The coming-of-age story features Scarlett O’Hara, a wealthy plantation owner’s daughter, who suddenly finds herself in poverty after Sherman’s march. Soon after initial publication it became the … Continue reading

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Final Project Proposal

For my DH final project I propose to analyze the subgenres of modernism. I plan to research their individual characteristics and how they relate to the broader themes of the modernist movement. The categories that I plan to use are: … Continue reading

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Hoag and “The Snow Man’s” Last Stanza

   In Ronald Hoag’s short article “Wallace Stevens ‘The Snow Man’: An Important Title Pun” he analyzes the potential pun of the title and applies the result to the last and ultimately confusing stanza.  He quotes and agrees with Susan … Continue reading

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“The Snow Man” and The Surfer

I used “The Snow Man” by Wallace Stevens for my imitation poem. I wanted to capture the physical imagery that is present in his poems. I was curious to see if the winter imagery and its sense of isolation would … Continue reading

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“Disabled” and Alienation

            In Daniel Pigg’s “Owen’s ‘Disabled’” he analyzes the impact Owen’s war participation had on his poetry. These experiences lead Owen to distancing himself from society and elicited images of estrangement. The author points to the … Continue reading

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Other Developments in 1915-1916

Arts and Culture Dada art movement was born from the adverse reactions to World War I. Dadaist believed that the bourgeois reasoning and logic about joining the war ultimately was the cause of the war. They therefore rejected logic and rationality … Continue reading

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