Category Archives: Final Project

Heartbeat: Setting Poems to Drums

Introduction: Musical Poetry, Poetic Music Setting poems to music is as ancient as the chorus of Greek tragedies. Embedded in the very root of words tied to poetry, such as lyric (lyre) and sonnet (little song), is an expectation for … Continue reading

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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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Final Project: Mother of the Waste

For my final project I did an imitation of The Waste Land. I incorporated elements from T.S. Eliot, Louis Zukofsky, William Carlos Williams, and John Beer. From Zukofsky and Eliot I took formalities including allusions, footnotes, foreign languages, etc. However, similar … Continue reading

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Jeffers in the Canon

My final project takes a look at the critical reputation of Jeffers across Modernism and beyond its time-frame by analyzing the critical review of the poet’s work, mainly revolving around four of his books of poetry: Flagons and Apples, Californians, “Tamar and Other … Continue reading

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Back to the Basics of Crime

In an effort to provide background for my final project discussion concerning the depiction and experience of crime in Modern Poetry, this blog post will decipher the Classical period of Criminology and the way poets of the time were exploring … Continue reading

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Apocalyptic themes in Modern Poetry

For my final project I decided to research apocalyptic themes in modern poetry and why poets use this as a trope. For the research section I talked about what I believed was used as an inspiration for this theme and … Continue reading

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Bad Modern Bitches

Click the picture of Edna St. Vincent Millay frolicking below to see our website! For our final project we decided to spin a twist on the research of modern female poets.  Reading boring biographies of female poets we liked and … Continue reading

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A Fat Woman in the Attic with Nothing to Hide: Amy Lowell Slammed Against the Great Wall of Modernism

For my final project, I decided on taking a poet out of the dustbin of Modernism and examining her life as equated to her poetic works. Amy Lowell, a once revered and popular imagist poet who wrote along side people … Continue reading

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Beautiful Zoo: Final Project

WELCOME TO A BEAUTIFUL ZOO! Home to the cryptic and fascinating animals, objects, and any other breathing or non-breathing things residing in Marianne Moore’s poems. This website features three poems by Marianne Moore (e.g. The Plumet Basilisk, Elephants, and The … Continue reading

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Modernism: Art & Its Poetic Ing

For our final project we have created a online presentation using the program Prezi. In our Prezi we examine several different art and literary movements as well as the artists and writers that influenced and occupied them. Beginning with the … Continue reading

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