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Poetry Therapy And The Elderly
A common fear is incompetence, resulting in often-heard comments such as 'I can't draw,' 'I can't sing,' and 'I can't dance.' These fears are, to some extent, rooted in the mistaken belief that skills in the arts are innate and inherited rather than sets of component skills that can be learned and integrated into a whole skill" (p. 147). Notwithstanding……
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Bolton, G., Field, V. & Thompson, K. (2006). Writing works: A resource handbook for therapeutic writing workshops and activities. London: Jessica Kingsley.
Bolton, G. (1999). The therapeutic potential of creative writing: Writing myself. London: Jessica Kingsley.
Furman, R., Langer, C.L. & Anderson, D.K. (2006). The poet/practitioner: A paradigm for the profession. Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 33(3), 29-30.
Hynes, a.M., & Wedl, L.C. (1990). Bibliotherapy: An interactive process in counseling older persons. Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 12(3), 288-302 in Thompson at p. 129.
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Poetry Anthology For Many Readers
This is evident from the first as the poet writes,
I am inside someone -- who hates me. I look out from his eyes (1-3).
This approach allows him to take a jaundiced view of himself and criticize his own shortcomings, as if they were those of someone else. He says he hates himself,……
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Amiri Baraka, "An Agony, as Now" in the Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume 2, Third Edition, Baym, Nina et al. (eds.), 2746-2747. New York: W.W. Norton, 1989.
Louise Bogan, "Women" at http://www.web-books.com/classics/Poetry/anthology/Bogan/Women.htm.
Gwendolyn Brooks, "We Real Cool" at http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1627.html.
Christopher Buckley, "Why I'm in Favor of a Nuclear Freeze" in Bradley, John. Atomic Ghost: poets respond to the nuclear age. Coffee House Press, 1995.
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Poetry / Maya Angelou Maya
/ eakened by my soulful cries." (Angelou, 7)
Thus, the overall message of the poem is not very different from that of the first text, Phenomenal oman. Again, the writer celebrates her own self as an emblematic image of the entire people. Pride and self-esteem are the major ingredients in the writer's cogent and powerful discourse. She……
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Angelou, Maya. Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women. New York: Random House,
Hagen, Lyman B. "Poetry: Something About Everything," in Heart of a Woman, Mind of a Writer, and Soul of a Poet: A Critical Analysis of the Writings of Maya Angelou, University Press of America, Inc., 1997, pp. 118-36.
Ramsey, Priscilla R. "Transcendence: The Poetry of Maya Angelou," in Current Bibliography on African Affairs, Vol. 17, No. 2, 1984-85, pp. 139-53.
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Poetry That Grabs Your Attention I Agree
Poetry That Grabs Your Attention
I agree with you that poetry, by virtue of its compressed form, needs to grab the reader's attention immediately in the way that prose does not. While readers of a novel might be willing to read a book for thirty or so pages if they are assured that the action will eventually……
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Poetry Analsys Analysis Of Poetry
Among the many other literary devices used in the poem is alliteration. Alliteration is used to add to the central meaning of the poem and in line three, for example, the alliteration " wanted wear" is intended to stress that it is important to take the route or road less traveled and not simply to follow……
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Poetry Is Used By Writers And Authors
Poetry is used by writers and authors to convey their feelings, beliefs, and thoughts in a concise manner. Throughout the ages, poetry has developed into an art form, one in which every country, culture, and generation has been able to contribute to it. American poets such as Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes have contributed to the genre, each……
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Poetry Analysis Of Thomas Hardy's The Oxen
Poetry Analysis of Thomas Hardy's "The Oxen"
The English poet Thomas Hardy wrote a seemingly simple piece titled "The Oxen" in 1915, as the industrialized slaughter of World War I raged throughout the European continent. Although the light tone and themes of holiday reverence and religious worship which are present throughout "The Oxen" suggest a sense of……
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Poetry About Struggle
Poetry about struggle: The African-American experience
Poetry is a medium which naturally lends itself to dealing with the topic of oppression. It enables members of historically-marginalized groups, such as African-Americans, to express themselves in covert ways that challenge the dominant paradigms of the societies in which they live. Through the use of the techniques of metaphor and……
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Dove, Rita. "Persephone, Falling." From Mother Love W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1995.
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19856 [21 Sept 2012]
Dunbar, Paul. "We wear the mask." From Literature: The Human Experience. Shorter Fourth
Edition with Essays. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. http://www.potw.org/archive/potw8.html [21 Sept 2012]
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Poetry Criticism Love As A
.." The imagery of these two stanzas has a two-fold meaning. First of all, under the force of love, the self goes forth or withdraws into its own core again. Moreover, the alternating seasons of spring and winter hint to the life and death power that love holds over the poet. The force of love is thus pulsating with the……
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Works Cited cummings, e. e. somewhere I have never traveled.
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Poetry Drama Aristotle Sophocles' Oedipus
Poetry, Drama, Aristotle, Sophocles's Oedipus
To Aristotle, Oedipus the King represented the embodiment of the perfect tragedy and the idealistic representation of a hero. He saw the renown figure of a hero battling mythical creatures transposed into the image of a hero battling with his own self, in terms of his existence and behaviour. He drew certain……
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Aristotle (2009). Poetics (I. Bywater, Trans.). Oxford: Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Original Work Published 1920)
Bastow, M. (1912). Oedipus Rex as the Ideal Tragic Hero of Aristotle. The Classical Weekly, Vol. 6 (No. 1). Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/4386601?origin=JSTOR-pdf
Gill, N.S. Plot Summary of the Episodes and Stasima of "Oedipus Tyrannos," by Sophocles. About.com. Retrieved from http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/sophocles/a/052410SOphoclesOedipusSummary.htm
Johnston, I. (2000). Fate, Freedom, And the Tragic Experience: An Introductory Lecture on Sophocle's Oedipus The King. Vancouver Island University. Retrieved from https://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/introser/oedipus.htm
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