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- Title
- Wool and water.
- Creator
- Frederick, Kira., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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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.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2009
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/187210
- Subject Headings
- Symbolism in literature, Poetry, Feminist poetry, American
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- roofless.
- Creator
- Rehman, Sahar., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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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. .
Show less - 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
- Notes on a liminal state.
- Creator
- Straub, Patricia., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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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
- Mother's forgotten garden.
- Creator
- Zimmerman, Cory Daniel., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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The thesis proposed for my M.F.A. in creative writing is a collection of conceptual American short stories written in a variety of forms that properly suit their respective subjects. Like a handful of miscellaneous wild seeds scattered over a tilled garden, the goal of the project is to represent the wild asymmetry of Nature via a collection of unlikely companions. For this reason, the conceptual form of each story often takes root in scientific or symbolic representations of Nature (i.e....
Show moreThe thesis proposed for my M.F.A. in creative writing is a collection of conceptual American short stories written in a variety of forms that properly suit their respective subjects. Like a handful of miscellaneous wild seeds scattered over a tilled garden, the goal of the project is to represent the wild asymmetry of Nature via a collection of unlikely companions. For this reason, the conceptual form of each story often takes root in scientific or symbolic representations of Nature (i.e. sine and cosine curves, the yin-yang, etc.). The plot of loose soil holding these collective experiments together is their earthy thematic focus-namely, the way in which Nature has been systematically backgrounded by western ideology. On occasion, a story's conceptual focus may stray from these ecofeminist principles, but only for the purpose of leveling a more critical or satirical eye upon common American ideologies.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/186303
- Subject Headings
- Symbolism in literature, Nature in literature, Short stories, American
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The Far winter.
- Creator
- Rodrigues, Elizabeth., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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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.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/177013
- Subject Headings
- Poetry, Symbolism in literature, Displacement (Psychology)
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The Eulogist.
- Creator
- Pagan, Michael J., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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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.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2011
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3340696
- Subject Headings
- Symbolism in literature, Poetry
- Format
- Document (PDF)
