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  1. 1. "I immediately think about philosophy" : A study of learners' attitudes toward English poetry in the EFL classroom

    University essay from Mälardalens universitet/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Anna Larsson; [2023]
    Keywords : second language learning; English foreign language; literature; poetry; attitudes; motivation; learner perspective; Swedish upper secondary school; Sweden;

    Abstract : Poetry has great potential benefits for second language (L2) classrooms as a source for increasing language awareness and linguistic structures different from the rules learners may be taught in class. This potential of poetry and methods for teaching poetry is relatively well researched, while the learner perspective has received comparatively little attention. READ MORE

  3. 2. Criticizing Patriarchal Traditions through Alternative History in Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Sandra Ask; [2023]
    Keywords : Carol Ann Duffy; Poetry; The World s Wife; Retellings; Alternative History; Patriarchy; Historic Women; History; Greek Mythology; Gender;

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  4. 3. Birdpoetic Worlds : Sensing the more-than-human worlds through Nina Södergren's bird poems

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Estetik

    Author : Jessica Sunnebo; [2023]
    Keywords : Nina Södergren; Animism; Ecocriticism; Human-animal studies; Ecopoetics; Zoopoetics; Poetry; Birdpoetry; Birds; More-than-human world; Attentiveness; Nils Aslak Valkeapää; Nina Södergren; Animism; Ekokritik; Litterära djurstudier; Ekopoetik; Zoopoetik; Poesi; Fågelpoesi; Fåglar; Mer-än-mänsklig värld; Uppmärksamhet; Nils Aslak Valkeapää;

    Abstract : This thesis, Birdpoetic Worlds: Sensing the more-than-human worlds through Nina Södergren’s bird poems, analyses a selection of poems by Swedish poet Nina Södergren (1924–2015) from the collection Högt ärade trana: Nya dikter och urval av tidigare poesi* (2012),  through the lens of ecocriticism and animism. The aim is to identify and explore how her bird poetics can function as an invitation to sense a relational experience and interconnectedness with the more-than-human world, especially through attentiveness. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Gunnlod Dataset : Engineering a dataset for multi-modal music generation

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Emil Johansson; Joel Lindgren; [2023]
    Keywords : Computer generated music; machine learning; musical instrument digital interfaces; ethics;

    Abstract : This report details the creation of a new dataset named the Gunnlod dataset (after the Norse giantess who guarded the mead of poetry) for use in research in the field of machine learning as applied to music creation, particularly multi-modal music in the MIDI format of symbolic music representation. The dataset is based on a subset of approximately four fifths of the Lakh MIDI dataset. READ MORE

  6. 5. Re-imagining the World Through Popular Poetry Set in Motion by the Ultimate Signalling Officer Alan Alexander Milne

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Anja Skogberg Lundin; [2023]
    Keywords : 20th Century war-poets; Alan Alexander Milne; Winnie-the-pooh; The Great War; soldiers; pacifism;

    Abstract : Alan Alexander Milne’s authorship was never limited to being the author of the very beloved teddy-bear, far from it. In addition to being a successful playwrite and editing Punch, Milne also wrote several poetry collections which all have been out of print since the 1940s in the entire English-speaking world. READ MORE