English @ SUNY Geneseo | Deven Coulter | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/deven-coulter/activity/ Activity feed for Deven Coulter. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 9f6ea16d7b922d2e834a4cf3f36926c6 Deven Coulter wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=306 Mon, 28 Apr 2014 16:20:10 -0500 Although I had never heard of John Synge or his plays until taking Dr. Doggett’s ENGL 458: Major Authors: Yeats and Heaney, I have been listening to Blake Shelton for years. It took me by surprise when I was […]

]]> db3975ea5f6a413b0fad4c98eb22f604 Deven Coulter replied to the topic Poets and the Dantean Contrapasso in the forum Irish Studies http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/irish-studies/forum/topic/poets-and-the-dantean-contrapasso/#post-395 Mon, 21 Apr 2014 00:01:32 -0500 I think you are correct in interpreting the poem in viewing the poet as betraying both his family and his political group, potentially Heaney’s Catholic roots if we view the speaker as the poet himself. However, I think it is a bit harsh to state that Heaney is one who lacks all conviction. Conversely, in “Field Work,” I think he is attempting to…[Read more]

]]> caa77ef897e136a44de1b8e7b2f7cf87 Deven Coulter wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=208 Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:44:56 -0500  

As I read the poems in Heaney’s 1975 collection, North, I recognized ritual as an important topic that appears in both Yeats and Heaney’s poetry. Just as Yeats plays were influenced by the Japanese Noh […]

]]> e6bb676caebf938f0db8c670154faf67 Deven Coulter started the topic In the Seven Woods as Metapoetry in the forum Irish Studies http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/irish-studies/forum/topic/in-the-seven-woods-as-metapoetry/ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 17:39:25 -0500 Although we have not yet discussed Yeats’ transitional works in depth, I immediately noted the contrast between “Adam’s Curse” and the works we have read previously. It seemed to me as if <i>In the Seven Woods</i> contained a meta-discourse on Yeats’ poetry, and a paradoxical one at that. In “Adam’s Curse,” when the speaker is talking of poet…[Read more]

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