Author Archives: Jessica French

Back to the Basics of Crime

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Jessica French

In an effort to provide background for my final project discussion concerning the depiction and experience of crime in Modern Poetry, this blog post will decipher the Classical period of Criminology and the way poets of the time were exploring … Continue reading →

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The Nineties…and The Little Mullen

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Jessica French

As a child “raised” in the nineties, I was able to witness, first-hand, the changes that reverberated into the Twenty-first Century.  Here are some of the decade’s highlights and possible connections to Harryette Mullen’s Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, and Muse & … Continue reading →

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How Poetry Explores Crime

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Jessica French

DH Final Project Proposal Original Proposal: Because I am a Sociology Minor currently enrolled in Criminology, I thought it would be interesting to combine the two disciplines in exploration of how Modern Poetry treats crime and its understanding of criminality. … Continue reading →

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There Wouldn’t Be Tragedy Without Poetry to Describe It

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Jessica French

Poems like Charles Reznikoff’s long poem Holocaust (1975) bring back memories that most would rather soon forget.  Similar to poetry designed to bring awareness to the historical plight of African Americans, as its own “separate and self-contained genre”, Holocaust poetry … Continue reading →

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’39 Big Things Lead to Big Bombs A Way

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Jessica French

1939… marks the year World War II began.  Leading up to the start of the war, many interesting events surrounding it included the ways in which modern society responded and interacted with the Second World War. Arts & Culture Professor … Continue reading →

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Women’s Literary Acceptance: Read and Roar

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Jessica French

This week as our class pours over The Waste Land (1922) and Spring and All (1923), we are experiencing but a small amount of modernism in the Roaring Twenties.  After losing our worldly innocence in World War I, the United … Continue reading →

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Hughes’ Freeing Forms

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Jessica French

While both Claude McKay and Langston Hughes celebrate black culture and how they each identify with this population, Hughes’ tone suggests a greater sense of comfort with his heritage.  Ramazani notes, “Hughes took as his primary muses the trenchant humor, … Continue reading →

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Beelzebub’s Scaled Demon

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Jessica French

“Beelzebub’s Scaled Demon”   The pet endless with scale and skeleton   As if some troubled aristocratic Evil had kneaded and ground the beginning and end of Scheme into a heap of muscle   An epitome of skilled bones unwinged … Continue reading →

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Marianne Moore: More Than Modern

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Jessica French

Marianne Moore While studying Marianne Moore’s poetry, it is often more effective to focus on the symbolism reflected in her poetry in order to apprehend the meanings.  Jerrald Ranta’s essay entitled “Marianne Moore’s Sea and the Sentence,” agrees that when … Continue reading →

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1916 – Crazy Baby, the Germans Make Machines and the Irish Revolt

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Jessica French

1916 Arts & Culture  During an era when every worldwide event made sense to one group of people or another, the arts were moving in a direction that did not.  Dadaism, a European art movement-taking place during the early twentieth … Continue reading →

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