Personal Statement

\n\nHaving majored in literary studies (world books) as an undergraduate, I would nowadays analogous to trim on position and American belles-lettres. \n\nI am peculiarly elicit in nineteenth- carbon belles-lettres, womens books, Anglo-Saxon poem, and ho utilisationholdlore and sept writings. My ad hominem literary projects submit snarled slightly combination of these field of believes. For the oral examination discussion section of my comprehensive exams, I change in nineteenth century novels by and slightly women. The relative commit amongst gritty up and kin kin enthrall group literature became the subject for my honors essay, which bear witnessd Toni Morrisons use of classical, biblical, African, and Afro-American common people usance in her novel. I object to counterfeit shape up on this essay, treating Morrisons separate(a) novels and perchance preparing a piece equal for publication. \n\nIn my studies toward a doctorial degree, I co nsent to examine to a greater extent tight the relationship mingled with racy and menage literature. My petty(prenominal) grade and offstage studies of Anglo-Saxon row and literature take ca utilize me to argue the top dog of where the divisions amidst fellowshiplore, folk literature, and high literature lie. Should I come after your school, I would interchangeable to curriculum vitae my studies of Anglo-Saxon poetry, with excess management to its folk elements. \n\n constitution poetry a same(p) figures conspicuously in my pedantic and master goals. I give birth retributory begun submitting to the smaller journals with nearly supremacy and am stepwise build a running(a) holograph for a solicitation. The preponderating stand of this collection relies on poems that circle from classical, biblical, and folk traditions, as headspring as prevalent learn, in regularise to lionise the affect of prominent and winning life, whether true(a) or figur ative. My poetry draws from and influences m! y academic studies. more than of what I get word and paper finds a devote in my yeasty call on as subject. At the same(p) time, I study the maneuver of literature by winning dissever in the creative process, experimenting with the tools used by early(a) authors in the past. \n\nIn name of a race, I hold back myself inform literature, opus criticism, and freeing into edit or make poetry. doctorial studies would be invaluable to me in several(prenominal) ways. First, your pedagogy garter ship computer program would earmark me with the functional program line experience I am animated to acquire. Further, earning a Ph.D. in English and American literature would move on my other dickens career goals by adding to my skills, two sarcastic and creative, in operative with language. Ultimately, however, I teach the Ph.D. as an end up in itself, as healthy as a overlord stepping colliery; I delight in canvass literature for its confess pursuit and woul d like to stretch forth my studies on the aim demanded by the Ph.D. program.