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Robert Frost and the “Eye Reader”
No full textOne salient feature of Robert Frost’s aesthetics was his sharp differentiation of the visual from the audile imagination. Frost (a former schoolteacher) had noticed the difference between visual and audile/phonetic readers, and considered the eye reader to be a ‘bad’ reader. The article examines those features of Frost’s own poetic practice which would have led him to consider the eye reader a bad reader, as well as the sorts of prosodic content an eye reader may be prone to miss. Having examined Frost’s aesthetic objections to the eye reader, the question is then posed: does Frost ever treat the “eye reader,” or oral versus visual predilections, thematically in his artistic writings
Article - Ethelwyn Wetherald
No full textAn article about the life and work of Ethelwyn Wetherald printed in The Challenge. The article discusses that she not only wrote about nature, but also emotion and life. The author mentions "Sir Wilfrid Laurier was one of her many admirers and in one of his speeches in the House of Commons, he quoted her poem, 'My Orders'. 'My orders are to fight. Then if I bleed, or fail, Or strongly win, what matters it? God only doth prevail. The servant craveth naught Except to serve with might. I was not told to win or lose - My orders are to fight'". The article is also signed by the author with a note that reads "with much love from Elsie Pomeroy"
Between-monitor differences in step counts are related to body size: implications for objective physical activity measurement.
Get PDFBackgroundThe quantification of the relationships between walking and health requires that walking is measured accurately. We correlated different measures of step accumulation to body size, overall physical activity level, and glucose regulation.MethodsParticipants were 25 men and 25 women American Indians without diabetes (Age: 20-34 years) in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. We assessed steps/day during 7 days of free living, simultaneously with three different monitors (Accusplit-AX120, MTI-ActiGraph, and Dynastream-AMP). We assessed total physical activity during free-living with doubly labeled water combined with resting metabolic rate measured by expired gas indirect calorimetry. Glucose tolerance was determined during an oral glucose tolerance test.FindingsBased on observed counts in the laboratory, the AMP was the most accurate device, followed by the MTI and the AX120, respectively. The estimated energy cost of 1000 steps per day was lower in the AX120 than the MTI or AMP. The correlation between AX120-assessed steps/day and waist circumference was significantly higher than the correlation between AMP steps and waist circumference. The difference in steps per day between the AX120 and both the AMP and the MTI were significantly related to waist circumference.InterpretationBetween-monitor differences in step counts influence the observed relationship between walking and obesity-related traits
Adaption as Self-Representation: The Anthology of Influences in Eavan Boland’s The War Horse, Collected Poems and New Collected Poems
Get PDFIn The War Horse, Eavan Boland began to hone the distinctive perspective which would define her place in the history of Irish letters. The book is divided into three sections, the second of which consists entirely of translations. Turning to these, both Boland’s choice of poems to translate and practice as a translator are examined. In three cases, Boland so significantly alters the original poems that the term adaptation or transcreation is more precise. At a moment when the poet sought to break with the mainline of Irish poetic tradition, both the adapted and translated works can be viewed as integral to The War Horse, providing a foundation for Boland’s subsequent poetic evolution. In a subsequent version of Boland’s Collected Poems, the volume is reorganized so as to somewhat de-emphasize these pieces, yet two additional translations inserted in Against Love Poetrycontinue to highlight key facets of Boland’s mature poetic [email protected] Pomeroy is originally from West Virginia. After having studied English Literature at UNC Chapel Hill and Anglo-Irish Literature at University College Dublin, he completed his doctoral studies in History at the University of Zielona Góra in Poland. He presently teaches literature
and history at Adam Mickiewicz University, under the auspices of the Department of British and Irish Literature and Literary Linguistics as a specialist in modern Anglo-Irish poetry.Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, PolandAllen-Randolph, Jody. “An Interview with Eavan Boland.” Irish University Review, vol. 23, no.1, 1993, pp. 117–130.Allen-Randolph, Jody. “Private Worlds, Public Realities: Eavan Boland’s Poetry 1967-1990.” Irish University Review vol. 23, no. 1, 1993, pp. 5–22.Allen-Randolph, Jody. Eavan Boland. Bucknell University Press, 2014.Boland, Eavan. Collected Poems. Carcanet, 1995.Boland, Eavan. Against Love Poetry. Norton, 2001.Boland, Eavan. Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time. Carcanet, 2006.Boland, Eavan. New Collected Poems. Norton, 2009.Brown, Terence. “Heart Mysteries There: The War Horse.” Irish University Review, vol. 23, no. 1, 1993, pp. 34–39.Kinsella, Thomas. The Dual Tradition. An Essay on Poetry and Politics in Ireland. Carcanet, 1995.Krisak, Len (Translation). The Odes of Horace: In Latin and English. Carcanet, 2006.Mahon, Derek. “Young Boland and Early Boland.” Irish University Review, vol. 23, no.1, 1993, pp. 23–28.Mayakovsky, Vladimir. “A Talk with the Tax Collector”. Translated by Ruth Herschberger and Marina Prychodko, Poetry, vol.102, no. 2, 1963, pp.100–108. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=102&issue=2&page=34. Accessed 20 June 2024.Mayakovsky, Vladimir. Stikhotvoreniya. Poemy. AST, 2001.O’Connor, Mary. “Chronicles of Impeded Growth: Eavan Boland and the Reconstruction of Identity,” 1999. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/postid/pid9999.0002.203/--chronicles-of-im peded-growth-eavan-boland?rgn=main;view=fulltext. Accessed 20 June 2024.Pushkin, Alexander. “Ekho.” https://www.culture.ru/poems/4442/ekho. Accessed 20 June 2024.Sachs, Nelly. Das Leiden Israels: Eli / In den Wohnungen des Todes / Sternverdunkelung. Suhrkamp, 1966.46 (3/2024)617
THE PRINT MASS MEDIUM, MASS CULTURE AND QUESTIONS OF AESTHETIC AND TOPICAL PUBLIC OPINION, CONSIDERED IN LIGHT OF EXTRINSIC AND INTRINSIC OBSTACLES OF ACCESSIBILITY
Get PDFAs regards the phenomenon of popular culture, opinions are divided between the Classicist school, who argue it is a cultural universal, and the Modernist camp, who argue that such a cultural form is a relatively recent phenomenon. Taking as its point of departure the work of Marshall McLuhan, this article raises the issue of whether popular culture could have been perceptible as such prior there having to any quantifiable means of assessing popularity. Focusing chiefly upon print, the first mass medium, the author first considers such extrinsic obstacles of accessibility as would have in the past precluded “culture for the people by the people.” Of particular interest is the conditions under which both cultural producers, authors and readers could begin to conceptualize and perceive the reading public as a collective entity, with popularly representative tastes. One then goes on to examine to raise the question as to whether, in today’s “global village,” such extrinsic obstacles have not faded to insignificance, leading potentially to a greater need to consider obstacles of intrinsic accessibility in terms of public opinion
Estimating demographic parameters for capture-recapture data in the presence of multiple mark types
No full textIn mark-recapture studies, various techniques can be used to uniquely identify individual animals, such as ringing, tagging or photo-identification using natural markings. In some long-term studies more than one type of marking procedure may be implemented during the study period. In these circumstances, ignoring the different mark types can produce biased survival estimates since the assumption that the different mark types are equally catchable (homogeneous capture probability across mark types) may be incorrect.We implement an integrated approach where we simultaneously analyse data obtained using three different marking techniques, assuming that animals can be cross-classified across the different mark types. We discriminate between competing models using the AIC statistic. This technique also allows us to estimate both relative mark-loss probabilities and relative recapture efficiency rates for the different marking methods.We initially perform a simulation study to explore the different biases that can be introduced if we assume a homogeneous recapture probability over mark type, before applying the method to a real dataset. We make use of data obtained from an intensive long-term observational study of UK female grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) at a single breeding colony, where three different methods are used to identify individuals within a single study: branding, tagging and photo-identification based on seal coat pattern or pelage.Peer reviewe
Doświadczenie osobiste oraz krytyka społeczna na temat brexitu: Wielka Brytania czasów brexitu w najnowszej poezji Vidyana Ravinthirana i Nicholasa Haggera
No full textTwo starkly different aspects of the Brexit phenomenon may be seen in the recent work of two British poets, Vidyan Ravinthiran and Nicholas Hagger. Ravinthiran’s most recent book consists of love sonnets composed for his wife. These are addressed to an intimate “you” which, upon publication, is expanded to vicariously include his readership. In the course of their everyday life as a mixed-race couple in northern England, the context of Brexit occasionally intrudes. When it leads him to communicate something to his wife, the poet organically transcribes these experiences. While ultimately a secondary (if often inescapable) theme in Ravinthiran’s sonnet sequence, the Brexit negotiations are the leitmotif of Hagger’s Fools’ Paradise. Taking his cue from the sixteenth and seventeenth century mock epic, the poet offers an erudite satire excoriating a short-sighted political class. Hagger appears to move easily in such circles, presumably due to the diplomatic and intelligence contacts in his past. Assuming the guise of an insider or pundit, “your poet” provides a meticulous, tactical critique of the inefficacy of foolish parliamentarians.Dwa zupełnie różne aspekty zjawiska brexitu można dostrzec w niedawnej pracy dwóch brytyjskich poetów, Vidyana Ravinthirana i Nicholasa Haggera. Najnowsza książka Ravinthirana składa się z sonetów miłosnych skomponowanych dla jego żony. Są one skierowane do intymnego „ciebie”, które po opublikowaniu zostaje rozszerzone, aby zastępczo objąć jego czytelników. W trakcie codziennego życia tej pary mieszanej rasy, mieszkającej w północnej Anglii, czasami pojawia się kontekst brexitu. Chociaż ostatecznie jest to temat drugorzędny (choć często nieunikniony) w sekwencji sonetów Ravinthirana, negocjacje brexitu są motywem przewodnim Fools’ Paradise Haggera. Wzorując się na poematach heroikomicznych z XVI i XVII wieku, poeta przedstawia erudycyjną satyrę, która potępia krótkowzroczną klasę polityczną. Wydaje się, że Hagger z łatwością porusza się w takich kręgach, prawdopodobnie z powodu kontaktów dyplomatycznych i wywiadowczych w przeszłości. Przyjmując postać znawcy, „twój poeta” zapewnia drobiazgową, taktyczną krytykę nieskuteczności głupich parlamentarzystów
Robert Frost and the “Eye Reader”
No full textOne salient feature of Robert Frost’s aesthetics was his sharp differentiation of the visual from the audile imagination. Frost (a former schoolteacher) had noticed the difference between visual and audile/phonetic readers, and considered the eye reader to be a ‘bad’ reader. The article examines those features of Frost’s own poetic practice which would have led him to consider the eye reader a bad reader, as well as the sorts of prosodic content an eye reader may be prone to miss. Having examined Frost’s aesthetic objections to the eye reader, the question is then posed: does Frost ever treat the “eye reader,” or oral versus visual predilections, thematically in his artistic writings
The Depiction and Ethic of Pride in the Work of Countee Cullen
No full textCountee Cullen’s literary oeuvre emerged in a cultural context wherein Harlemite leaders took pride in an emerging intellectual and literary vanguard. Interestingly, Cullen’s work foregrounds many of the negative aspects of both personal and group pride. Pride for Cullen is typically unnatural, a compensatory excrescence to be shed or managed; this corresponds more closely to a Christian than to a pagan ethos of pride. As regards pride in one’s group identity, although readings of Cullen in terms of gay pride would be anachronistic, he deliberately treats the topic of racial pride—particularly in his novel One Way to Heaven, wherein pride figures a structurally integral leitmotif.Countee Cullen’s literary oeuvre emerged in a cultural context wherein Harlemite leaders took pride in an emerging intellectual and literary vanguard. Interestingly, Cullen’s work foregrounds many of the negative aspects of both personal and group pride. Pride for Cullen is typically unnatural, a compensatory excrescence to be shed or managed; this corresponds more closely to a Christian than to a pagan ethos of pride. As regards pride in one’s group identity, although readings of Cullen in terms of gay pride would be anachronistic, he deliberately treats the topic of racial pride—particularly in his novel One Way to Heaven, wherein pride figures a structurally integral leitmotif
Book Review: Alliances & Armor: Communist Diplomacy and Armored Warfare During the War in Vietnam
No full textAuthor: Jim Pomeroy
Reviewed by: Dr. Gregory A. Daddis, Melbern G. Glasscock Endowed Chair in American History, Texas A&M University
In Alliances & Armor, Jim Pomeroy reveals how Cold War diplomacy shaped North Vietnam’s battlefield tactics, transforming guerrilla warfare into Soviet-style armored offensives. Drawing from multi-archival sources, the book traces Hanoi’s strategic pivot from China to the USSR amid shifting global alliances and escalating US involvement. With gripping detail, Pomeroy chronicles the rise of the People’s Army of Vietnam’s tank-led campaigns, culminating in the dramatic fall of Saigon.https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters_bookshelf/1120/thumbnail.jp
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