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The 40's and 50's
The Review,
May. 1947 |
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"The
baby boom generation was born, and the women who were
in the workforce after the men left went back home.
They gave the impression of isolation from these major
world events from their black and white records from
the archives ...
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The common theme that threaded itself through the writings
observed and studied appeared to be love. In The
Quill the journalists made reference to the impending
marriages and engagements of the women of Ursuline,
and wrote pieces about the community events that would
be shaping the social calendar for the season. The creative
writings found in The Review were also reflective of
this theme."
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Alison Cox
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Mary
Auner identified childhood as a common theme of the authors
of the "silent generation" and she analyzed student
writing from that perspective in this example: |
| Laura
(An Ecological Ode) |
| Luminous lovely child
playing under the
towering pine
Lingering 'neath the shade
of her sun laced petticoat
of boughs
Hugging young cones |
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You've tucked in your
summer scented
clothes
For a moment, your world
is mine.
I feel a kinship with the
mother tree,
the child, and nature, for I
am all three.
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-- Esther
Ann Goldberg INSCAPE Vol. 6, No. 2, 1970 |
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"There
is a chain of being that is destroyed in her last two lines
“I feel a kinship with the mother tree, the child, and
nature, for I am all three.” This illustrates her unity
and oneness with her surroundings. We’ve chosen poetry
that mostly free verse, which is still a popular form of poetry
used today, and appears to be a continuing trend throughout
modern writing."
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Jennifer Flynn and Mary Auner
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