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Topic proposal: Interactive Timeline?

Posted on February 28, 2014 by mldooley

I was thinking of using some kind of software to make an interactive timeline of the modern poetry/art movements. I would track not only where each author, for the poems I examine, wrote the work, but what was going on … Continue reading →

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Snow Day in the Tropics: A Close read of McKay’s “The Tropics in New York”

Posted on February 16, 2014 by mldooley

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Snow Day in the Tropics: A Close read of McKay’s “The Tropics in New York”

Posted on February 13, 2014 by mldooley

Claude McCkay’s poem The Tropics in New York uses the sonnet form to tell the feelings of nostalgia the speaker has for what he feels is normality, a feeling of home. McKay was born in Jamaica and lived there until … Continue reading →

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Linking Sculpture and Poetry: Mina Loy’s Beautiful tribute to Brancusi

Posted on February 13, 2014 by mldooley

Mina Loy’s Brancusi’s Golden Bird is a beautifully written, and abstract, poem that describes the art of “Costantin Brancusi…[a] pioneer of abstract sculpture” (Loy 273). Brancusi was French, although born in Romania, and was renowned for his modernist bird statues … Continue reading →

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The Importance of Little Magazines in the Promotion of Progressive Writers

Posted on January 30, 2014 by mldooley

     Mina Loy was a controversial and influential early 20th century poet. Her poem Songs to Joannes was first published in 1915, and again in 1917, in a magazine called Others. Others gave poets with progressive, sometimes seen as radical, … Continue reading →

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Connecting the Individual and the Group: The Implications of Physical Arrangement in Whitman’s “Song of Myself”

Posted on January 16, 2014 by mldooley

In his article, Hair, Feet, Body and Connectedness in “Song of Myself”, Taylor Hagood1 examines Walt Whitman’s ideas of individuality and democracy throughout his poem Song of Myself. Hagood argues that Whitman “positions the individual as the predominant vehicle and … Continue reading →

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