The two orchestral pieces, written in the period of 2009-2010, are tone poems that demonstrate the development and combination of tonal melodies along with a coherent and effective use of orchestration to express different emotions inspired by two imaginary places. This thesis analyzes different aspects of the pieces based on their melodic construction and the use of the orchestra as the main instrument. This document also discusses the influence of specific composers and orchestral pieces, and the main historical style of the compositions. / by Raul Rivera. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2010. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

O objetivo deste estudo é fazer uma leitura atenta de alguns dos mais emblemáticos sonetos de Vinicius de Moraes, que aparecem na chamada segunda fase de sua poesia, perseguindo assim o modo particular que o poeta tem de enxergar o sentimento amoroso. Propõe-se como hipótese interpretativa que Vinicius elabora, em sua lírica, uma visão singular do amor, capaz de congregar em si o instante e o infinito. Tal perspectiva consiste em dar forma aos anseios de totalidade, inquietação desde o começo presente em seus versos, graças à reunião das esferas do físico e do sublime. O primeiro capítulo desta dissertação traz um breve balanço de sua poesia inicial, rastreando os motivos e os ritmos centrais trabalhados em seus livros de juventude; o segundo capítulo apresenta as análises de alguns dos sonetos de amor escritos a partir de 1938, poemas nos quais o novo modo de compreender o sentimento amoroso surge com maior nitidez; e o capítulo final procura abordar o testemunho lírico do poeta, que se volta, em chave de síntese, para os problemas de seu ofício em \"Poética (I)\" e \"Poética (II)\". / The objective of this study is to present an attentive reading of the most emblematic of Vinicius de Moraes\'s sonnets, which appear in a so-called second phase of his poetry, following the particular way the poet has to regard love. The interpretative hypothesis is that Vinicius elaborates, in his poems, a singular view of love, capable of congregating both the instant and the infinite. Such perspective consists of giving shape to the will to totality, a concern present in his verse since the beginning, due to the union of the physical and sublime spheres. The first chapter of this dissertation brings a short presentation of his initial poetry, tracking the central motives and rhythms in his early books; the second chapter presents the analysis of some love sonnets written from 1938 on, poems in which the new way to understand love appears more distinctly; and the final chapter attempts to approach the poet\'s lyrical testimony, which concerns, synthetically, to the problems of his work in \"Poética (I)\" and \"Poética (II)\".

by Li Chi Man. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 134-137). / PREFACE --- p.iii / Chapter Chapter One --- PROLOGUE- THE CLASSICAL AND ROMANTIC STYLES --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter Two --- THE CONCEPT OF DIALECTICS AND TRANSCENDENCE --- p.9 / Chapter Chapter Three --- STUDY OF FRANZ LISZT'S SYMPHONIC POEMS --- p.15 / Les preludes (1848) --- p.18 / Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne (1848-9) --- p.27 / Tasso: lamento e trionfo (1849) --- p.38 / Heroide funebre (1849-50) --- p.47 / Prometheus (1850) --- p.55 / Mazeppa (1851) --- p.63 / Festklange (1853) --- p.71 / Orpheus (1853-4) --- p.79 / Hungaria(1854) --- p.86 / Hunnenschlacht (1857) --- p.95 / Die Ideale (1857) --- p.103 / Hamlet (1858) --- p.112 / Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe (1881-2) --- p.120 / Chapter Chapter Four --- EPILOGUE - SOME OBSERVATIONS --- p.128 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.134

Reading David Jones’s The Anathemata, William Carlos Williams’s Paterson, and Charles Olson’s The Maximus Poems as epics, this doctoral dissertation challenges the old but persistent notion that epic poetry ceased being written at a particular point in the past and instead examines the particular formal, philosophical and political difficulties writers of this genre had to confront in the second half of the twentieth century. Twentieth-century epic poetry will primarily be defined in terms of its purpose or function, which is the representation of the identity of a ‘community’, while the literary period beginning with the end of the Second World War will be defined as late modernism. Chiefly inspired by Anthony Mellors’s Late Modernist Poetics: From Pound to Prynne, late modernism will be discussed as an aesthetico-political challenge with which writers had to come to terms in the wake of twentieth-century European totalitarianism. Georges Bataille’s philosophy of community, it will be argued, paradigmatically illustrates these aesthetico-political difficulties in philosophical terms, and the discussions of the three epic poems are therefore preceded by an analysis of Bataille’s Summa Atheologica, which constitutes the core of his philosophy of community.

Revelations: Poems, Appalachian poet Ted Olson’s second full-length poetry collection, contains eleven chapters of seven poems per chapter. Plying various forms and exhibiting a strong sense of musicality, these poems explore such themes as childhood, family, memory, love, nature, ritual, and visions both literal and spiritual. Olson’s poems provide surprising snapshots of a shared world that is all-too-often ignored or unexplored. In the words of literary critic James Owens, “We need Ted Olson. In his truest voice, he is a visionary poet, restlessly prying at the dim everyday with the shiny edge of intelligent illumination. His poems locate the connections and epiphanies, right there where they have always been, unseen until now and waiting for the right eye to find them, the right tongue to give them clarity and form.” / https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1034/thumbnail.jpg

Basin Ghosts is a collection of original poems by Jesse Graves, author of Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine. Many poems in Basin Ghosts address places and themes that resonated in Graves's first collection, which won the Weatherford Award, the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award, and the Appalachian Writers' Association Book of the Year Award in Poetry. The poems in Basin Ghosts examine life in the rural South, changes that have occurred over generations in communities there, and the ways in which the past lives on through memory and attachment to the land. / https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1056/thumbnail.jpg

Thesis (M.A. (African languages)) --University of Limpopo, 2004. / In this research an attempt has been made to assess, evaluate and examine the role of chiefs as characters in Matsepe's novels. The need for this study was found to be necessary because no in-depth study of the role of chiefs in Matsepe's novels has as yet been undertaken. This study demonstrates how Matsepe portrays chiefs as characters in his novels, what their duties are and how they help in developing his themes.

"Elizabeth Carter's Legacy: Friendship and Ethics" examines the written evidence about the relationships between Elizabeth Carter and her father, Dr. Nocolas Carte; Catherine Talbot; Sir William Pulteney (Lord Bath); and Samuel Johnson to explain how intellectual and personal relationships may become the principal ethical sdource of human happiness. Based on their own set of moral values, such as intellectual and individual liberty and equality, the relationships between Carter and her friends challenged eighteenth-century traditional norms of human relationships. The primary source of this study, Carter's poetry and prose, including her letters, present the poet's experience of intellectual and individual friendship, reflecting Aristotle's ethics, specifically his moral teaching that views friendship as a human good contributing to human happiness--to the chief human good. Carter's poems devoted to her friends, such as Dr. Carter, Talbot, Montagu, Lord Bath, as well as her "A Dialogue" between Body and Mind, demonstrate her ethical legacy, her specific moral principles that elevated human relationships and human life. Carter's discussion of human relationships introduces the moral necessity of ethics in human life.

This collection of work explores conflict and connection. The poems are shorter, but they are no less conflicted about human nature and our own desires to be good, while struggling with less-good desires. My construction of progressive imagery has changed from Confessional to a sensory connectivity of situation and feel. Breaking the collection into parts allows for grouping according to speaker relationship and voice.

Taarab in contemporary Zanzibar currently experiences great changes since the Nineties with the emerging and growing success of modern taarab. This has shocked the fans of the traditional style (taarab asilia) with musical and instrumental innovations, including powerful amplifiers and more danceable rhythms, but also textual innovations, using in their songs, commonly called mipasho, a sort of language and poetical imagery very open and non-disguised (Khamis 2002: 200). The perception of a split between the two musical and poetical styles is widely shared among the artists and fans of traditional taarab, but it actually tends to simplify the dynamics of continuity and change of this art deeply rooted within the social and political life of Zanzibar islands.