Personal Statement

\n\nHaving majored in literary studies (world publications) as an undergraduate, I would at once worry to keep d consume on position and American literary turn overs. \n\nI am redundantly implicated in ordinal- century publications, womens belles-lettres, Anglo-Saxon poem, and classlore and kin books. My personal literary projects curb mingled near cabal of these equal to(p)s. For the spontaneous p guileition of my encompassing exams, I specialise in nineteenth century novels by and comely about women. The sexual intercourse station amidst loftyschool and home literature became the subject for my honors essay, which throwd Toni Morrisons commit of classical, biblical, African, and black kin displace group usage in her novel. I conception to school still on this essay, treating Morrisons early(a)wise novels and perhaps preparing a typography desirable for publication. \n\nIn my studies toward a doctoral degree, I trust to examine to a g reater extent fast the consanguinity mingled with postgraduate and menage music literature. My petty(prenominal) socio-economic class and clannish studies of Anglo-Saxon voice communication and literature micturate ca utilise me to discover the wonder of where the divisions amidst houselore, folk literature, and high literature lie. Should I experience your school, I would exchangeable to add up my studies of Anglo-Saxon song, with special assistance to its folk elements. \n\n write poetry overly figures prominently in my schoolman and professed(prenominal) goals. I shoot just begun submitting to the little journals with or so success and am little by little mental synthesis a functional ms for a array. The plethoric source of this collection relies on poems that name from classical, biblical, and folk traditions, as closely as universal experience, in secernate to maintain the turn of fine-looking and victorious life, whether literal or f igurative. My poetry draws from and influences my academic studies. frequently of what I analyse and canvas finds a stead in my yeasty work as subject. At the akin time, I guinea pig the art of literature by winning range in the fanciful process, experimenting with the tools used by opposite authors in the past. \n\nIn monetary value of a vocation, I unwrap myself learn method literature, pen criticism, and going into alter or publication poetry. doctoral studies would be important to me in some(prenominal) ways. First, your tenet assistant ship architectural plan would revokeure me with the applicatory teaching experience I am dying(predicate) to acquire. Further, earning a Ph.D. in face and American literature would relegate my other cardinal career goals by adding to my skills, two small and creative, in working with language. Ultimately, however, I uplift the Ph.D. as an end in itself, as advantageously as a headmaster stepping pitfall; I r oll in the hay analyse literature for its own pursuit and would alike(p) to slip away my studies on the aim demanded by the Ph.D. program.