This thesis is an examination of the poetry of Edwin Morgan. It is a cultural analysis of Morgan's poetry as representation of the Scottish people. Morgan's poetry represents the Scottish people as determined and persistent in dealing with life's adversities while maintaining hope in a better future.

The "dramatic monologue" is curiously named, given that poems of this genre often feature characters not only listening to the speakers but responding to them. While "silent auditors," as such inscribed characters are imperfectly called, are not a universal feature of the genre, their appearance is crucial when it occurs, as it turns monologue into dialogue. The scholarly attention given to such figures has focused almost exclusively upon dramatic monologues by Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, and other male poets and has consequently never illustrated how gender influences the attitudes toward and outcomes of communication as they play out in dramatic monologues. My dissertation thus explores how Victorian and modernist female poets of the dramatic monologue like Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Augusta Webster, Amy Levy, and Charlotte Mew stage the relationships between the female speakers they animate and the silent auditors who listen to their desperate utterances. Given the historical tensions that surrounded any woman's speech, let alone marginalized women, the poets perform a remarkably empathetic act in embodying primarily female characters on the fringes of their social worlds--a runaway slave, a prostitute, and a modern-day Mary Magdalene, to name a few--but the dramatic monologues themselves end, overwhelmingly, in failures of communication that question the ability of dialogue to generate empathetic connections between individuals with radically different backgrounds. Silent auditors often bear the scholarly blame for such breakdowns, but I argue that the speakers reject their auditors at pivotal moments, ultimately participating in their own marginalization. The distrust these poems exhibit toward the efficacy of speaking to others, however, need not extend to the reader. Rather, the genre of the dramatic monologue offers the poets a way to sidestep dialogue altogether: by inducing the reader to inhabit the female speaker's first-person voice--the "mobile I," in Èmile Benveniste's terms--these dramatic monologues convey experience through role-play rather than speech, as speaker and reader momentarily collapse into one body and one voice. Such a move foregrounds sympathetic identification as a more powerful means of conveying experience than empathetic identification and the distance between bodies and voices it necessitates.

Thesis (M.A. (African Languages)) -- University of Limpopo, 2013 / This research focuses on the analysis of poems on the portrayal of women by the two Xitsonga poets: Magaisa, J.M., Mihloti and Xikolokolo Nguvu, ya Pitori and Marhanele, M.M. Vumunhu bya Phatiwa and Swifaniso swa Vutomi. The main focus will be on the influence of Xitsonga culture on their portrayal of women, basing the argument on what the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa of 1996 says. In Chapter 1, there is a problem statement, aims of the study, rationale for the study, the significance of the study, the methodology, referring to the collection of data, where there is a primary and secondary research methods, scope and delimitation of the study and the literature review. The focus on Chapter 2 is on the explanation of what culture is, that each culture has the good and the bad in it, no culture is static. Chapter 3 focuses on the techniques employed by the poets in their portrayal of women. The focus in Chapter 4 is on the functions of poetry, basing on different eras, that is, the apartheid and democratic South Africa. The analysis of the selected poems will be dealt with in Chapter 5, divided into the married and the unmarried women. Chapter 6 focuses on places where women are discriminated against. Chapter 7 is a conclusion of the dissertation, and also look at what can be done to alleviate this discrimination.

The Beat poet Bob Kaufman was in many ways nearly destroyed by the state. Forcible electroshock therapy, repeated targeting by police, repeated brutalization by police, and frequent homelessness all threatened to snuff him out, but Kaufman refused to give in. He remained a political beacon of hope for his community throughout his life, asking those around him to envision a world where he could be free. Through his poems, through the poems of Etheridge Knight and Jimmy Santiago Baca, and through contemporary visions of abolition from Angela Davis and community organizers that become ever more relevant as the prison system continues to destroy its subjects, we can look towards a deeply necessary shift. Envisioning the world without prisons is foreign to many, perhaps even unimaginable. However, with the perspectives I will incorporate in this thesis, the necessity and beauty of envisioning abolition is clear.

Thesis (M. A.(African Languages)) -- University of Limpopo, 2021 / This study focused on identifying and analyzing the perceptions of Sepedi poets on women. This qualitative, descriptive research was conducted to determine if there were any discrepancies between role perceptions and role expectations. Data was collected from texts (poetry books) in the form of poems that poems which portrays negative perceptions of poets on women. Poems were selected randomly and analyzed to expose their perceptions on women. The study has exposed the prejudices that were unfairly inflicted upon women through poetry. The findings revealed that there is a need to rehabilitate authors, poets in particular to write positive about women, perceive women as capable and gifted beings. If this social ill is left unattended, it may result in confusion and role conflict among members of the society, which can ultimately transgress the attainment of credible and aesthetic element of literary work.

Ce mémoire interroge la place qu’occupent la poésie et les poètes dans l’œuvre du penseur Emil Cioran. En étudiant cette pensée qui puise à de nombreuses sources littéraires et poétiques, nous voyons comment le poète y incarne une figure de dépassement qui semble à certains moments pouvoir satisfaire un désir de transcender la condition humaine. Nous retraçons donc, de manière chronologique, une définition du poète comme personnage conceptuel, en analysant l'attitude de l'écrivain face à celui-ci et vis-à-vis de l'exercice poétique en général. La poésie lui apparait souvent comme une forme opposée à la philosophie, d’où il extrait un savoir proche de l’expérience et du vécu contre la rationalité et l’intellect. Nous soutenons que, malgré une position souvent équivoque puisqu'ambivalente à l’égard de la poésie et des poètes, ceux-ci jouent un rôle considérable dans l’évolution de sa pensée. Nous voulons aussi illustrer la tension qui existe entre ses aspirations et son intérêt pour la poésie, de même que ses propres velléités poétiques qui entre en conflit avec un idéal d’écriture qui se transforme au fil des livres. Nous voyons ainsi se dessiner une conception particulière de la poésie comme expérience, qui évolue dans ses écrits au gré des décennies. Enfin, nous étendons le questionnement en étudiant les relations, continues ou discontinues, qu’il entretient avec certaines figures spécifiques, qui selon nous exemplifient clairement la manière dont celles-ci imprègnent sa philosophie à différentes époques. De ce survol de l’œuvre transparait une quête existentielle et littéraire, caractéristique de l’approche philosophique de Cioran. / This study questions the place of poetry and poets in the works of thinker Emil Cioran. By interrogating his thought, which draws from many literary and poetic sources, it appears that the poet represents and embodies a transcendent figure that has the potential to satisfy, at times, a desire of transcending human condition. Therefore, we retrace in a chronological way, an evolving definition of the poet by analysing the attitude of the writer toward this conceptual character and the poetic practice in general. Poetry often appears to Cioran as an opposite form to philosophy, from which he extracts knowledge rooted in life and experience opposed to intellect and rationality. We argue that despite an often-ambiguous position toward poetry and poets, they have an important part to play in the evolution of his thought. We also want to illustrate the tensions that exist between his diverse aspirations and his interest in poetry, as well as his own poetic tendencies that are in conflict with an ideal of writing, which tends to change throughout his books. In doing so, we see in his writings a particular conception of poetry as experience that evolves over decades. Finally, we extend the question by looking at the specific relations, continued or discontinued, that links him with certain specific figures who clearly exemplify the way they influence his philosophy at different periods. From this reading of his works shows through an existential and literary quest, characteristic of Cioran’s philosophical approach.

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This study aimed to show the variety and skill of Browning's portrayal of character and to prove that the unifying forces in his treatment of character is the development of the poet himself.

The purpose of the present study is to ascertain the principles of poetry to which Robinson adhers, to determine his position in relation to the imagists, and to discuss in some detail the technical qualities of his shorter poems.

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