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A poetry thesis exploring subjects of gender identity, sexuality, socialization, writing, and craft, and including a preface that credits Emily Dickinson and Adrienne Rich as primary influences. One-third of the manuscript features epistolary prose poems in conversation with Dickinson, while the remaining portion contains poetry written in either free verse, traditional poetic form, or field composition.

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This collection of poems and paintings seeks to find the places where visual and written communication intersects, and the places where those two media diverge. The collection consists of poems and paintings juxtaposed, as if in conversation with one another throughout the pages. The collection treats each painting and poem as a separate attempt at prayer. As a reader turns the pages, similar questions are asked again and again, but in different settings and with different outcomes. This collection focuses on finding reconciliation between the oral culture of storytelling and the written culture of ideas, all within the context of prayer.

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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) lived at the perfect time to write about several of the most dramatic technological developments ever recorded in history. Up until the nineteenth century, professional scientists were almost the exclusive agents for writing about science. However, during this period, non-professional writers also emerged as important conveyors of popular science news to the public. Though Poe was a lay writer, his popular writing conveyed several of the most important new discoveries of the Industrial Age. He also projected his views about how nineteenth-century technologies might impact civilizations of the future. Poe’s writing offers a key example of a widespread movement of thinkers who attempted to mediate the tensions and debates that were taking place in his lifetime between those who perceived and described the world from either the “Mechanical” or the “Romantic” approach. This study explores the ways that Poe wrote about science in poetry, non-fiction, and fiction. I argue that a review of his earlier science writing helps to unlock several of the enigmatic writings of his culminationg work, Eureka:A Prose Poem. The final chapter of this thesis concludes with an in-depth discussion of Eureka. In Eureka, Poe proposes that man’s literary works are imperfect. However, he contends that the Creator has written and executed a perfect “Plot of the Universe.” Poe attempts to unravel several of its deepest mysteries in a multi-genre work of poetry, history, science, and metaphysics. I argue that modern scholars of literature and science history can gain a clearer view of the ways that the nineteenth-century public received and understood information about science by exploring Poe’s science writing than has been provided in previous historical or literary scholarship.

The raising of the poem genre into prose marks the moment of the dissociation between poetry and versification. This work aims the study of the prose poem of Brazilian literature. With a theoretical reflection about the notion of the neutral, proposed by Roland Barthes, it is observed the poetic writing and the prose poem. In the following, it discusses the presence of the prose poem in our literature in relation to aesthetic discussions on poetry, so as the role of critic in the genre reception. Some questions about poetic and the neutral figures are done with the textual analyses about the poets and the prose writers: Mário Quintana, Murilo Mendes, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Augusto Mayer e Haroldo de Campos. The prose poem is studied in the poetic paradigm on genre s rhetoric, in the Brazilian literature and in the production of these poets. / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O surgimento do gênero poema em prosa marca o momento de dissociação definitiva entre poesia e versificação. Este trabalho tem por objetivo o estudo do poema em prosa na literatura brasileira. A partir da reflexão teórica sobre a noção de neutro, elaborada por Roland Barthes, observa-se a escritura poética e o poema em prosa. Em seguida, problematiza-se a presença do poema em prosa em nossa literatura em relação aos debates estéticos sobre a poesia, assim como o papel da crítica na recepção do gênero. Algumas questões sobre sua poética e as figuras do neutro são levantadas a partir da análise de textos de poetas-prosadores: Mário Quintana, Murilo Mendes, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Augusto Meyer e Haroldo de Campos. O poema em prosa é estudado como uma sutileza no paradigma poético na retórica do gênero, na literatura brasileira e na produção desses poetas.

Este trabalho propõe uma leitura dos livros Canções sem metro, de Raul Pompéia, e Missal, de Cruz e Sousa. Investiga a origem do poema em prosa na literatura francesa, bem como analisa os principais problemas relacionados à conceituação desse novo formato. A análise pretende, ainda, identificar os traços mais marcantes dos primeiros livros dedicados ao poema em prosa no Brasil, no que diz respeito aos temas e à estrutura. Ao centrar a discussão sobre a dimensão discursiva do poema em prosa, sobre os operadores de tensão de sua constituição e sobre as figuras de dualidade, o trabalho apóia-se no estudo teórico crítico desenvolvido por Tzvetan Todorov / This paper proposes a comparative reading of Raul Pompéias Canções sem metro and Cruz e Sousas Missal. It also aims both at reflecting upon the origins of prose poem in the French literary tradition. Through the analysis of this new genre, this paper will identify the most remarkable features of the books above mentioned, seen as the first examples of the genre of prose poem in Brazil. Raul Pompéias Canções sem metro and Cruz e Souzas Missal will be studied in order to identify their themes and structure. The theoretical framework of this paper will be the critical method developed by Tzvetan Todorov, emphasizing particularly the figures of duality

Este trabalho propõe uma leitura dos livros Canções sem metro, de Raul Pompéia, e Missal, de Cruz e Sousa. Investiga a origem do poema em prosa na literatura francesa, bem como analisa os principais problemas relacionados à conceituação desse novo formato. A análise pretende, ainda, identificar os traços mais marcantes dos primeiros livros dedicados ao poema em prosa no Brasil, no que diz respeito aos temas e à estrutura. Ao centrar a discussão sobre a dimensão discursiva do poema em prosa, sobre os operadores de tensão de sua constituição e sobre as figuras de dualidade, o trabalho apóia-se no estudo teórico crítico desenvolvido por Tzvetan Todorov / This paper proposes a comparative reading of Raul Pompéias Canções sem metro and Cruz e Sousas Missal. It also aims both at reflecting upon the origins of prose poem in the French literary tradition. Through the analysis of this new genre, this paper will identify the most remarkable features of the books above mentioned, seen as the first examples of the genre of prose poem in Brazil. Raul Pompéias Canções sem metro and Cruz e Souzas Missal will be studied in order to identify their themes and structure. The theoretical framework of this paper will be the critical method developed by Tzvetan Todorov, emphasizing particularly the figures of duality

Nas poesias do francês Charles Baudelaire a imagem marinha é recorrente, seja como duplo que reflete a subjetividade humana, espaço de fuga do árido cotidiano urbano, paralelo da amada ou ainda um espaço de incomparável beleza. Em um de seus manuscritos, o poeta afirma que o espetáculo do mar oferece uma ideia de infinito diminutivo, pois uma porção do líquido em movimento é suficiente para dar a mais elevada ideia de beleza que pode ser oferecida ao homem em sua habitação transitória. Assim, este trabalho pretende fazer uma análise crítica do pequeno poema em prosa O Porto, integrante do volume póstumo O Spleen de Paris, para examinar de que maneira o motivo marinho transfigura-se em um infinito diminutivo e, assim, promove sentimentos do belo e do sublime questões fundamentais para a estética do autor em uma poesia autônoma, que encerra sob sua harmonia e homogeneidade fraturas específicas do sujeito moderno. Por meio da comparação com outros pequenos poemas em prosa e em verso que abordam o elemento marítimo, manuscritos e textos estéticos do poeta, bem como a fortuna crítica acerca da obra baudelaireana e estudos filosóficos que conceituam o belo e o sublime no âmbito da estética, a presente análise procura verificar como este curto O Porto se vale do tópico marítimo e, sob o traje do pequeno poema em prosa e da composição de um sofisticado engenho alegórico, oferece ao leitor vislumbres intensamente líricos da beleza moderna criada por Baudelaire. / In Charles Baudelaires poems, the maritime images are recurrent, either as a double that reflects the human subjectivity, as an escape from the arid urban space, as the beloved portrait, or as a space of incomparable beauty. In one of Baudelaires manuscripts, he affirms that the spectacle of the sea offers the idea of the infinite diminutive: twelve or fourteen leagues of liquid in movement are enough to convey the highest ideal of beauty which is offered to man in his transitory habitation. Therefore, this work aims to critically analyze the prose poem The Port, part of the posthumous edition Paris Spleen, to verify how the maritime motive becomes the infinite diminutive and, thus, promotes the feeling of the beautiful and sublime fundamental questions to the authors aesthetic in an autonomous poetry, that under its harmony shows specific fractures of the modern individual. Comparing The Port with other prose poems and also with some Les Fleurs du Mal poems that mentions the maritime element, manuscripts and aesthetic texts written by the poet as well as Baudelaires critical fortune and philosophical studies that define the beautiful and the sublime, this analyses aims to verify how this short The Port addresses the maritime topic and, under the garment of the prose poem and the sophisticated allegorical procedure, offers to the reader deep lyrical glimpses of the modern beauty created by Charles Baudelaire.