Essays about: "poems"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 78 essays containing the word poems.

  1. 6. "The Grey Sky Lowers" : The Uncanny in Five of Sylvia Plath's Poems

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL)

    Author : Eva Stenskär; [2022]
    Keywords : Sylvia Plath; Ariel; Sigmund Freud; Nicholas Royle; Harriet Rosenstein; Uncanny; das Unheimliche; Liminality; Darkness; Aposiopesis; Hauntings; Doubles;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the uncanny (das Unheimliche) in five of Sylvia Plath’s 1962 poems: “Berck-Plage”, “The Arrival of the Bee Box”, “Daddy”, “Fever 103°”, and “Death & Co.”. Furthermore, it looks at how the biographical circumstances in which the poet found herself while writing the poems, may have influenced them. READ MORE

  3. 7. The Harmonic House

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Fredrik Skyllbäck; [2022]
    Keywords : Co-living; collective; villa; house; Oxelösund;

    Abstract : Architecture is not like other artforms. All art, from cave paintings to modern dance, can be described as interpretations of human culture. Paint-ings and sculptures are attempts to freeze moments in time, and songs and poems are essentially a form of communication. READ MORE

  4. 8. The use of fiction to promote in-depth reading strategies for improving reading comprehension skills for L2 language students

    University essay from

    Author : Oscar Lindkvist; Daniel Lindeberg; [2022]
    Keywords : In-depth strategies; inference-making; fiction; reading comprehension; English as a second language; Fördjupningsstrategier; Inferenser; skönlitteratur; läsförståelse; Engelska som ett andraspråk;

    Abstract : Reading ability at the Swedish upper secondary school is decreasing for second language learners and the number of students reading literary texts is also declining. Our aim with this paper is to examine if reading fiction in an English as a Second language classroom at an upper secondary level can enhance students’ reading comprehension using in-depth strategies. READ MORE

  5. 9. The Sensual and Spiritual Love-Representation of Women by Some Ḥijāzi Poets. A Thematic Analysis of Selected Poems

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Jihad Khalil; [2021-09-29]
    Keywords : arabiska; Ḥijāzi ghazal; Ḥijāzi poets; Umayyad period; Thematic analysis;

    Abstract : The present study aims at studying the sources and patterns of women images by Ḥijāzi poets in ghazal poetry, an important Arabic poetic genre that gained popularity and an outstanding stature in the Umayyad period. It also endeavours to show how poets depict images by the use of their five senses and examines what spiritual features of women these poets prefer. READ MORE

  6. 10. Rewritings of Circe: Representation, Resistance, and Change in Feminist Revisionism

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Maria Karlsson; [2021]
    Keywords : Rewriting; Feminism; Mythology; Odyssey; Circe; Welty; Atwood; Miller;

    Abstract : This paper analyses the feminist revisionism of the Circe-myth in the rewritings by Eudora Welty, Margaret Atwood, and Madeline Miller. To that end, the paper first examines three different ways of discussing rewritings: Jeremy M. READ MORE