Some Ideas for Shelby :)

Okay so here we go!

While reading your paper I thought that it would be cool to not only make comparisons of Vivian and the Holy Sonnet but also some comparisons between other works of literature, uses of literary functions, as well as scientific research.

Morphine:

So when reading your paragraph about death as a drug my mind immediately went to a Brave New World and Soma in the hospitals. I thought it would be really cool to pull some connections about how in that novel, the doctors give their patients so much soma to take away the pains of dying that by the time they do die, they have been in a soma coma for a hecka long time... AND SO you could totally compare that to the doctors giving patients morphine and allowing them to choose how much they want and when they want it, etc...

So for this I found a couple of resources:

1) The Novel-- For direct comparison

Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York: Perennial Classics, 1998. Print.

2) A Book About Soma- It's uses, and everything else you would possibly want to know about it

Wasson, R. Gordon. Soma: Divine Mushroom Of Immortality. [New York]: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971. Print.

3) Morphine Practices in Medicine- Uses, Misuses, etc

Hirsch, Anne et al. "Prescription Histories And Dose Strengths Associated With Overdose Deaths". Content.ebscohost.com. N.p., 2014. Web. 22 Feb. 2016.

4) Morphine in Other Works of Literature- This tells of another woman's experience in the hospital similar to Vivian's

Partyka, Iwona. "Morphine." Green Hills Literary Lantern 26.(2015): 1. Literary Reference Center. Web. 22 Feb. 2016.

Okay so now that I beat that point to death.. (see what I did there??)

Here are some other points I saw that would be cool to look into:

Religious Views on Death:

Translation VS. The End -- In regards to the comma/semicolon

Fowler, Marsha Diane Mary. Religion, Religious Ethics, And Nursing. New York: Springer, 2012. Print.

You could look at it from a nursing perspective, how are nurses trained to look at death... With a comma or a semicolon??

Punctuation Usage

Salzmann, Mary Elizabeth. Comma. Edina, Minn.: ABDO Pub., 2001. Print.

Or the correct uses of a comma! And take that in consideration with the usage of semicolons...

2011, Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature & Fine Arts, volume 23, issue 2, starting on page 125, English

Parallelism

One of the things I noticed is that you are trying to draw parallels between Vivian and the poetry and so one thing you could also do is show different works of literature and explain the uses for parallelism as well as how things can be the same but completely different at the same time...which can be found:

2015, Linguistics & Philosophy, volume 38, issue 4, starting on page 289, English

Drama + Poetry-- Using One Genre to Create Another

Sewell, Elizabeth. The Structure Of Poetry. [Folcroft, Pa.]: Folcroft Library Editions, 1974. Print.

This is a book about poetry structures and you could take this and compare it to:

Hartnoll, Phyllis, and Peter Found. The Concise Oxford Companion To The Theatre. Oxford [England]: Oxford University Press, 1992. Print.

Drama and Theater.. which this book has any definition you could possibly want for this genre

Okay so I think I went a little research crazy but I just think there is SOOOOO much you can do with this paper!!