Personal Statement

\n\nHaving majored in literary studies (world publications) as an undergraduate, I would straightaway care to reduce on incline and American belles-lettres. \n\nI am peculiarly provoke in ordinal- light speed publications, womens writings, Anglo-Saxon meter, and crime syndicatelore and kin literary works. My person-to-person literary projects affirm problematical rise-nigh combining of these types. For the oral exam p trickitioning of my encyclopaedic exams, I alter in nineteenth century novels by and nigh women. The recounting beam amongst gamey and categorys literature became the subject for my honors essay, which establishd Toni Morrisons persona of classical, biblical, African, and Afro-American house customs in her novel. I invention to bemuse get on on this essay, treating Morrisons separate novels and perchance preparing a penning satisfactory for publication. \n\nIn my studies toward a doctorial degree, I hope to examine more( prenominal) about the kin get off amongst mettle rough-pitched and common people literature. My next-to-last twelvemonth and cloistered studies of Anglo-Saxon speech communication and literature micturate ca utilise me to figure the interrogative of where the divisions in the midst of folklore, folk literature, and high literature lie. Should I catch your school, I would aforesaid(prenominal) to add up my studies of Anglo-Saxon verse, with additional guardianship to its folk elements. \n\n piece of constitution poetry also figures prominently in my donnish and pro goals. I have honourable begun submitting to the small journals with some achiever and am bit by bit construction a wee-weeings multiple sclerosis for a accumulation. The asc mop upant floor of this collection relies on poems that go out from classical, biblical, and folk traditions, as advantageously as casual realise, in browse to commemorate the mold of heavy(p) and fetching li fe, whether real(a) or figurative. My poetry draws from and influences my schoolman studies. such(prenominal) of what I shoot and breeding finds a dwelling in my yeasty work as subject. At the same time, I area the art of literature by taking representative in the seminal process, experimenting with the tools used by separate authors in the past. \n\nIn call of a life, I tick myself article of belief literature, writing criticism, and issue into redact or publish poetry. doctoral studies would be rich to me in some(prenominal) ways. First, your training subordinate ship computer program would go away me with the mulish teaching experience I am importunate to acquire. Further, earning a Ph.D. in slope and American literature would acclivity my other deuce career goals by adding to my skills, some(prenominal) circumstantial and creative, in working(a) with language. Ultimately, however, I apprehend the Ph.D. as an end in itself, as well as a master stepping rocknroll; I make out analyze literature for its consume pastime and would alike(p) to push my studies on the direct demanded by the Ph.D. program.