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Title: Questions for Animals.
Creator: Hamilton, Peggy, Mitchell, Susan, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Through the worlds of cause and effect, forms, and formlessness, echoing the structure of the shrine Borobudur, this work explores these convergences: Paul Oppenheimer's argument that the best origin of sonnet is sonitus, the music of the spheres perceived in this world as a deafening; the experience of Borobudur 's rectangular stone reliefs within a structure that looks angular but is circular; and a deaf woman's observation that vowel sounds conflate on faces under the duress of pleasure or...
Show moreThrough the worlds of cause and effect, forms, and formlessness, echoing the structure of the shrine Borobudur, this work explores these convergences: Paul Oppenheimer's argument that the best origin of sonnet is sonitus, the music of the spheres perceived in this world as a deafening; the experience of Borobudur 's rectangular stone reliefs within a structure that looks angular but is circular; and a deaf woman's observation that vowel sounds conflate on faces under the duress of pleasure or pain. The attempt, as the sonnet moves through the volume, interrupted four times by poems of other types, is to experience what seems, like stone or path, a most syllogistic of forms, as mandala. Throughout, the relationship between sight and sound is explored, using homophones, syntax working with and against parts of speech and lineation, hearkening to words that keep as unresolved as possible the vowel sounds, as brogues do, and tonal languages.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000924
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Sonnet--History and criticism, Poetry--Collections
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Otway.
Creator: Hall, Sherry L., Mitchell, Susan, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Otway is a verse collection that explores the journey of the self in isolation. The collection commences with the narrator's inability to make sense of involuntary isolation. The subsequent melancholia prompts the narrator's journey of self-exploration, which progresses outward into the natural world. This journey is signified through the narrator's travels, which bring her into direct contact with the numinous (nature). Consequently, both narrator and numen become integrated, leading to the...
Show moreOtway is a verse collection that explores the journey of the self in isolation. The collection commences with the narrator's inability to make sense of involuntary isolation. The subsequent melancholia prompts the narrator's journey of self-exploration, which progresses outward into the natural world. This journey is signified through the narrator's travels, which bring her into direct contact with the numinous (nature). Consequently, both narrator and numen become integrated, leading to the transformation of solitude as "undesirable" space into "sacred" space, one in which self-discovery can occur.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000915
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Self-perception, Poetry--Collections
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The Light That Calls Them Back.
Creator: Fedden, Victoria, Mitchell, Susan, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: "The Light That Calls Them Back" is a collection of 23 poems completed during my three years of graduate studies. The poems in this collection are memory based and rely on the use of metaphor to convey emotion. These writings were compiled to demonstrate a range of poetic styles and subject matter. Most importantly, each poem in some way deals with the poet's relationship to different places and the memories (often hazy or inaccurate) associated with certain settings. Additional themes...
Show more"The Light That Calls Them Back" is a collection of 23 poems completed during my three years of graduate studies. The poems in this collection are memory based and rely on the use of metaphor to convey emotion. These writings were compiled to demonstrate a range of poetic styles and subject matter. Most importantly, each poem in some way deals with the poet's relationship to different places and the memories (often hazy or inaccurate) associated with certain settings. Additional themes present throughout these works are the loss that comes with both death and abandonment and the relationship among visual art and images and poetry. The voice in these poems represents the poet in different stages of life. Many of the poems appear to deal with mystical or fantastical elements. These represent the poet's imagination and belief in the unexplained. Some are meant to be taken literally, while others become metaphors or evidence of the poet's desire to escape the ordinary world.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000914
Subject Headings: Poetry--Collections., Symbolism in literature., Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.), Poetry--Themes, motives.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Speak, Shade.
Creator: Gibson, Raymond, Scroggins, Mark, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Speak, Shade is a book of lyric verse indebted to the poetics of W. S. Merwinespecially The Moving Target and The Lice- and late Paul Celan. It eschews punctuation, and uses paradox, ambiguous syntax, derangement of the senses, and surreal imagery among its tropes. Its themes include- but are not limited toblindness as a spiritual condition, the inefficacy of the imagination before time and death, the line between dream and reality, and the silence of God. Some motifs occurring in the text...
Show moreSpeak, Shade is a book of lyric verse indebted to the poetics of W. S. Merwinespecially The Moving Target and The Lice- and late Paul Celan. It eschews punctuation, and uses paradox, ambiguous syntax, derangement of the senses, and surreal imagery among its tropes. Its themes include- but are not limited toblindness as a spiritual condition, the inefficacy of the imagination before time and death, the line between dream and reality, and the silence of God. Some motifs occurring in the text are parts of the body, stars, books, light, mirrors, and shadows.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000919
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature., Poetry--Collections., Versification., Merwin, W.S.--(William Stanley),--1927---Criticism and interpretation.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Notes on a liminal state.
Creator: Straub, Patricia., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Notes on a Liminal State is a collection of poetry prepared in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in writing at Florida Atlantic University. While the poems cover a variety of topics, recurring themes include a mother's decline due to Alzheimer's Disease, infertility, adoption, and the observation of rural landscapes. The poems do not adhere to any single form.
Date Issued: 2011
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3356785
Subject Headings: Criticism and interpretation, Poetry, Symbolism in literature
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The Eulogist.
Creator: Pagan, Michael J., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The Eulogist hastens along two structural/narrative approaches: the narrative sequence form and how it relays a poetic narrative in newer and more unique ways, and a dialogic approach I've termed a perpetual tense, where a variety of voices representing a variety of temporal realities are given agency to perform within the same space at the same time. Both approaches stem from my own philosophical views in response to such grandiose ideas as "language," "life," "moments," "love," etc., and...
Show moreThe Eulogist hastens along two structural/narrative approaches: the narrative sequence form and how it relays a poetic narrative in newer and more unique ways, and a dialogic approach I've termed a perpetual tense, where a variety of voices representing a variety of temporal realities are given agency to perform within the same space at the same time. Both approaches stem from my own philosophical views in response to such grandiose ideas as "language," "life," "moments," "love," etc., and how reversible they seem. I respond by offering a common denominator that appears to exist amongst these ideas: the presence of desperation that feels to be the only tangible element perpetually moving forward, represented within the narratives of the manuscript's four main characters: Hero, Heroine, Marvelous Swab (The Eulogist) and myself (The Eulogist). Ultimately, the resolution is found within each character's response to their desperation as well as their rationalizations behind each response.
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Date Issued: 2011
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3340696
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Poetry
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: roofless.
Creator: Rehman, Sahar., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Here, the natural world is consumed - a physical reality and an internal one. It is walled, but roofless - a contained space. Elements are absorbed, same energies interacting within us that work around us - the natural forces of gravitation and electromagnetism, fire and water, growth, and time. Fundamental interactions in nature, forces that hold the universe together are treated as symbolic of the human experience. The sense of rooflessness is an essential theme to my thesis. There is a...
Show moreHere, the natural world is consumed - a physical reality and an internal one. It is walled, but roofless - a contained space. Elements are absorbed, same energies interacting within us that work around us - the natural forces of gravitation and electromagnetism, fire and water, growth, and time. Fundamental interactions in nature, forces that hold the universe together are treated as symbolic of the human experience. The sense of rooflessness is an essential theme to my thesis. There is a constant return to the sky. The shifting clouds, the stages of the sun and the moon mimic a traveling through time, a constant change. There is a given feeling of freedom and confinement. There is a vulnerability, a destitution, and a lack of shelter. The open sky, always out of reach, is a tease to be free. Though it also hints at a feeling of oneness, a symbolic relation between the divine and the human. The open, uninterrupted path for direct prayer. Roofless indicates a continuous linkage between the ground and the sky, between rain and dirt, between nature and humankind. .
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Date Issued: 2011
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3172701
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Poetry, Poetry, Themes, motives, Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A Child's Prayer.
Creator: Bergkamp, Jill., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: A Child's Prayer is a Creative Work of 28 poems. This collection examines the relationship between religion and the familial, the habitual and the sublime. Through the reconfiguring of stories, often from a child's point of view, this collection seeks to question the past through the process of retelling it. Themes that are prevalent include memory, alienation, nourishment, and the sacramental. A Child's Prayer gently questions patriarchal religion and its multi-generational effects.
Date Issued: 2011
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3166836
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Poetry (Collections), Conduct of life, Family, Religious aspects
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Wool and water.
Creator: Frederick, Kira., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Wool and Water is a creative work of 36 poems. This collection examines the relationship between the silent and vocal, between the pastoral and urban. By reconfiguring and retelling the fairy tales and nursery rhymes, this collection seeks to challenge the status quo through trickster-like diction. Themes that are prevalent include: alienation, nourishment, anonymity, and the female body. From the concrete to the lyric, Wool and Water relies upon the process of questioning patriarchal guises....
Show moreWool and Water is a creative work of 36 poems. This collection examines the relationship between the silent and vocal, between the pastoral and urban. By reconfiguring and retelling the fairy tales and nursery rhymes, this collection seeks to challenge the status quo through trickster-like diction. Themes that are prevalent include: alienation, nourishment, anonymity, and the female body. From the concrete to the lyric, Wool and Water relies upon the process of questioning patriarchal guises. These poems intersect in order to rectify the past and make amends with the present. The female voices that drive these poems are multi-generational.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/187210
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Poetry, Feminist poetry, American
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The Far winter.
Creator: Rodrigues, Elizabeth., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This collection of poems engages narratives of geographical and emotional displacement on a journey toward a place from which to begin writing. The inciting narrative is one of travel - Brazil, to England, and to adulthood. A second narrative emerges as a gradual realization that these first displacements will never be truly resolved and that this lack of resolution is the only occasion from which to write. As the collection continues, the speaker of these poems is less and less comfortable...
Show moreThis collection of poems engages narratives of geographical and emotional displacement on a journey toward a place from which to begin writing. The inciting narrative is one of travel - Brazil, to England, and to adulthood. A second narrative emerges as a gradual realization that these first displacements will never be truly resolved and that this lack of resolution is the only occasion from which to write. As the collection continues, the speaker of these poems is less and less comfortable with pronouncement and more and more comfortable with action. The act of doing something - moving, driving, walking, escaping, returning, floating down a river of ice - is what creates the silence needed to proceed. Through the body, deafening directives can be temporarily suspended.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/177013
Subject Headings: Poetry, Symbolism in literature, Displacement (Psychology)
Format: Document (PDF)

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