Queer

Graphic and Textual Representations of Queerness in Fun Home

December 13, 2016 by Sarah Gompper

I wrote the following paper for Eng 220: Literary Analysis with Dr. Fackler.

How Form and Diction Reflect a Lover’s Loss and Confusion in “Reconciliation”

I wrote the following short, close reading of W.B. Yeats’s “Reconciliation” for Eng 373: Terrible Beauty with Dr. Churchill: Yeats’s “Reconciliation” depicts two lovers back together after a time apart, with a central theme of love as intimately connected to creative passion. The speaker anguishes how his ability to think and write vanished along with his lover when she left him, and notes that when they are reunited the “world

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Running Water (novella)

Please enjoy the following excerpt from my novella, Running Water, which I wrote during a semester-long seminar at Davidson with Dr. Flanagan. Printed and bound, this novella is 128 pages. I’m ugly, I’m ugly, I’m ugly.This is a novella about dancing on the fine line between love and hate. It’s about thriving in ambiguity. It’s about relationships. Thank you, Davidson. Thank you, liberal arts. Thank you to my professors and my deluded parents

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The Changing Meaning of Death in “In Memory of Major Robert Gregory”

I wrote the following historicist analysis for Eng 373: Terrible Beauty with Dr. Churchill: W.B. Yeats published “In Memory of Major Robert Gregory” to eulogize his friend, Robert Gregory, after his death in January, 1918 (Witt 112). Gregory was an artist and decorated pilot in World War I (Witt 112) who died when he was struck out of the air over Italy (Pickering 81). Gregory’s death greatly impacted Yeats, who

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