"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 thesis has examined the moon and sun imagery of Yeats's Last Poems (1936-1939), contrasting the diminution and transmutations of astronomical imagery with its rich symbolic development from 1889 to 1936. Using lyric poetry of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats and selected prose works of William Butler Yeats, the study has traced the multiple antinomial forces embodied in moon and sun and the change in imagery that marked Yeat's poetic growth. The thesis has discussed vestiges of overt moon and sun imagery in Last Poems, Yeats's reasons for the changes that characterize his career, and the substitutes that replaced moon and sun.

Many of the musical works composed by Sir Arnold Bax have been studied, edited, and performed in the fifty or so years since his death in 1953. Until recently, several of the earliest symphonic works have remained as original unedited manuscripts tucked away in private collections. This dissertation serves to partially remedy this obscurity by presenting the first edition of the 1905 tone poem, A Song of War and Victory as a practical and working score. It also provides a study comprising commentary, analysis, and a large section devoted to the correction of the many errors in the manuscript. This early work is now available to orchestras, conductors, and scholars in a performance edition. Within the commentary and analysis portions is a comparison study of the other extant early, and interestingly varied, symphonic works, complete with an appendix, comprising a complete edition of the 1904 set of variations aptly titled, Variations (Improvisations). Before this study, Bax's Variations was the only remaining unedited work from the early symphonic complete works. Therefore, this dissertation fills these notable, existing, gaps and completes the exposition of these earliest examples of the composer's work. / School of Music

Original poems in English and Spanish.

Original poems in English and Spanish.

The Liang dynasty poet Xiao Gang’s “poems on things” (yongwu shi) have traditionally been read as shallow, overwrought descriptions of palace life devoid of the allegorical dimensions that were thought to ennoble the genre. This thesis argues that the figurative dimensions of these supposedly non-figurative poems must be understood in the context of the profound influence Buddhism and Buddhist thought had on Xiao Gang’s conceptions of literary practice. Through close readings of six “poems on things,” I demonstrate that Xiao Gang’s use of descriptive language doubles as an exploration of Buddhist concepts of sensuous reality, emptiness, and dependent co-arising. By exploring Xiao Gang’s thematization of abstract Buddhist philosophical concepts in the traditionally Confucian genre of the yongwu shi, I suggest that the impact of Buddhist ideas on Chinese figurative modes of poetic meaning was more profound than scholars of this period have previously suggested.

This thesis explores the phenomenon of the landscape and its changes in relation to poems by Jan Skacel. Closer analysis focuses on two selected collections of his poems, especially the seven poems, to be followed later their artistic interpretations done in two ways. The work also includes photographic attachment associated with the topic. Supervisor: Věra Vejsová, academic painter Department of art education

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-06-17T11:52:41Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 743797 bytes, checksum: a69f3f31364d8526ea0d589d40513d30 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-17T11:52:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 743797 bytes, checksum: a69f3f31364d8526ea0d589d40513d30 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-12-13 / The Project The Winds of Brazil and Angola: the poetics of négritude in Solano Trindade and Agostinho Neto tries to highlight, through the compared literature, the diverging and converging points in poems on négritude, selected from the masterpieces The sacred hope and The impossible renouncement by the Angolan Agostinho Neto, as well as poems selected from the masterpieces Chants to my people and There are starving people, by the Brazilian Solano Trindade. To attain this goal, we will try to analyze, through an aesthetic and ideological perspective, the poetic masterpiece of these writers under the scope of literature as well as under the discussion brought from literature crossed by domains of history. Négritude mainly tries to bring about an African-negro identity which was denied during the historical process of colonization. Thus, we will try to highlight the intertextual relations in the mesterpieces by the writers mentioned, considering the influence, direct or indirect, of the principles coming from the Négritude movement. Also, we will analyze the possible dialogues between literature and the social, political and cultural context – where lies the literary creation of the corpus in analysis. / O projeto Os Ventos de Brasil e Angola: a poética da negritude em Solano Trindade e Agostinho Neto busca evidenciar, através da literatura comparada, os pontos de convergência e divergência em poemas negritudinistas, selecionados das obras A sagrada esperança e A renúncia impossível do angolano Agostinho Neto, assim como poemas selecionados das obras Cantares ao meu povo e Tem gente com fome, do brasileiro Solano Trindade. Para tanto, buscaremos analisar através de uma perspectiva estético-ideológica, a obra poética destes autores à luz da literatura bem como das interlocuções desta com a história. A negritude busca primordialmente resgatar uma identidade negro-africana negada durante todo o processo histórico de colonização. Dessa forma, evidenciamos as relações de intertextualidade presentes nas obras dos autores referidos a partir da influência, direta ou indireta, dos princípios do movimento da Negritude. Analisamos ainda, os diálogos entre a literatura e o contexto social, político e cultural - onde repousam a criação literária do corpus em análise.

This submitted thesis deals with Hálek´s lyric-epical poems in context of Czech romanticism and byronism. There is a list of evaluation of the lyric-epical poems in the first part. The lyric-epical poems are evaluated by Czech literary history, the study of Hálek and book reviews when they were first published. There are analyses of the lyric-epical poems in the second part of the thesis. The poems are interpreted in order they were published. First three poems are compared to Máj and it is decided whether they are similar to Máj or not. The thesis tries to answer the question, if there is a shift of genre and a change of hero in the rest of the poems.

A poet who is a woman and a theologian writes under three pressures, or a triple bind: individuality, spirituality, and society. The desires and drives of the ego and those of spirituality often conflict, and societal expectations which gender bestows add further stress to the poet's efforts. This constant struggle destroys some poets (Plath, Sexton) and renders silent many of the rest. The following collection of poems combats the silence in four progressive sections: The first is an introductory essay which further discusses the triple bind; the second, "Between Two," illustrates spiritual relationships from despair to disillusionment; the third section, "Life in the Mirror," describes deteriorating human relationships; the final section, "Salt," presents problems resolving to a kind of negative capability. This poetry collection continues one woman's poetic struggle toward validity and acceptance.