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"The Farmer's Bride": Female Poetry and Dramatic Personae
This article looks at Charlotte Mew's poem "The Farmer's Bride" and the notion that female lyric voices cannot be viewed as representative.
Mar 26, 20236 min read
Baudelaire's "Invitation to the Voyage": Polymorphy and Locus Amoenus
By inspiring an important part of modern French poetry, such as symbolism, Baudelaire's work is considered as a cornerstone in the history of French literature. Many of his poems are still studied all around the world, and many academics still endeavor to grasp the deep meaning behind the verses of Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) and the Spleen. The present article proposes a brief analysis of one of the most famous poems of The Flowers of Evil, namely L'Invitation au
Mar 6, 202311 min read
Poetry and Politics Series: Contemporary Contexts
This article explores the significance of spoken word poetry, through a political lens, as a vehicle of identity and cultural reclamation.
Feb 28, 20237 min read
The Question of Simplicity: Frank O’Hara and Wendy Cope
This article explores examples of modern poetry to discover its attention to simplicity and ordinary objects as signifiers of grand emotion.
Feb 20, 20239 min read
Visibility in Citizen: An American Lyric
In Claudia Rankine’s prosaic novel, Citizen, she describes the importance of visibility and identity politics involving black minorities.
Feb 20, 202310 min read
Moscow Romantic Conceptualism Series: The Cultural Labour
Foreword Moscow Romantic Conceptualism was a major Soviet underground art movement and the echoes of its influence still manifest themselves in the pacesetting and often rebellious contemporary art of Russia. Developed in the atmosphere of strict ideological conventionality of the 1970s Soviet Union, Moscow conceptualist art served as not only a form of protest but also a means of escape from artistic and personal constraints characteristic of the period. This series offers a
Feb 13, 202310 min read
Poetry and Politics Series: Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance
This article examines the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance to discover how poets sought to reclaim stolen identity and voice.
Feb 6, 20238 min read
Poetry of the Vietnam War
This article explores the political rhetoric of the Vietnam War, and the ways soldiers sought to reconstitute the reality of the conflict.
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The Persian Poet and Mystic: Hafez
The fourteenth-century poet, Hafez, was a catalyst for change and impacted mystics, Sufis, and poets everywhere.
Jan 30, 20237 min read
Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology: Naturalism in the American countryside
Throughout the ages, many writers have endeavored to portray reality through their works and through the prism of different aesthetics, but also different philosophies. This desire to relate literature to reality probably reached its pinnacle with the naturalism movement during the late nineteenth century. In opposition to Romanticism, literary naturalism emphasizes the scientific approach in depicting a fictional reality. By exploring the scientific laws and parameters influ
Jan 29, 202311 min read
Poetry and Politics Series: Post-First World War Poetry
This article explores the modernist disillusionment with post-war society and the bleak turn of poetry in a war traumatised society.
Jan 22, 20236 min read
Animal Identity in Marie de France’s “Bisclavret”
This article explores medieval perceptions of identity and the boundaries of the human and the animal in the lais of Marie de France.
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