For the final project, Logan Berman and I were considering making an interactive website tracing feminism in modern poetry. We would create this website using a site builder like Wix. The website would give biographies of different female poets who symbolized feminism during the time of modernism. Some of these women would include Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mina Loy, Elizabeth Bishop, Djuna Barnes, and more. We would also include parts of their work on the website, mainly poems that show blatant feminism. We would do close reads of certain poems, and explore how the poets themselves felt about topics during their time periods. The goal of our website would be to give a history of feminism in modern poetry and to get people reading it that wouldn’t normally be interested in poetry. It would be beneficial to include a small timeline on the website to show when these women were born and what time in history they were writing and publishing their works. The website would include many pictures and sources as well as much research. Logan and I are very excited to start working on our website!
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Great idea. The goal here is not so much to create a unique argument about modernism and feminism, but to create a useful resource in which others might explore this issue. That means a lot of though will have to go in to the website itself–how it is organized and designed–and into the research. For Friday, I’d like to see a comprehensive list of poets you will include as well as a list of secondary sources that you will use for background. It will be important to work from scholarly sources rather than adapting other online sources. Good luck!
We will focus on Millay, Stein, Dickinson, Mina Loy, and H.D. The sources we use will be a mix of internet sources as well as biographies, books about feminism in poetry/literature, and encyclopedias. We plan to lay out our website very clearly and user friendly so the common person could navigate it easily and find any information they need to know about the poets.
I particularly like your sense of audience here: the goal isn’t to simply recycle scholarly account of these poets, but to present them in a fresh and dynamic way. This requires a very intentional rhetorical approach as you create a “mood” that will really inspire / drive the way you present your content. When we meet, I hope we can talk about what rhetorical stance you hope to strike here, and how that will affect the way you present these female poets. Good luck!