dc.contributor.advisor	Rosenthal, Laura
dc.contributor.author	Stewart, Lenaya
dc.contributor.department	English Department	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2015-02-16T15:06:52Z
dc.date.available	2015-02-16T15:06:52Z
dc.date.issued	2015-02-15
dc.description	Winner of the 2015 Library Award for Undergraduate Research.
dc.description.abstract	When poets manipulate and blend categorical language and imagery through the use of metaphor, they change the reality within the poetic work. The purpose of this paper is to extend on the already occurring argument in regards to the role of nature and metaphor in literary works. This paper will demonstrate how images of nature work as tools of social validation for ostracized lifestyles and racial groups. Within the frame of a comparative analysis of John Donne’s “The Bait” and “The Primrose” and Langston Hughes’ “Dreams” and “Dream Variation” this argument focuses on the way metaphors turn towards nature for purity and then include people within the newly constructed natural image. Questions that are developed and answered are (a) How is metaphor used as a tool of social validation? (b) How can images of nature increase persuasiveness and influence social acceptance? and (c) How has the use of nature evolved over poetic history?	en_US
dc.identifier	https://doi.org/10.13016/M2CP7M
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1903/16297
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	University of Maryland (College Park, Md)
dc.title	Purity through Nature: A Comparative Analysis of Metaphoric Structures Linked to Nature in the Poetic Works of John Donne and Langston Hughes	en_US
dc.type	Research Paper	en_US

Purity through Nature: A Comparative Analysis of Metaphoric Structures Linked to Nature in the Poetic Works of John Donne and Langston Hughes

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