You've talked about Monsters being a culmination of preoccupations about gender expectations, sexual politics, and the power of desire.
We must consider that each line of poetry is an independent division of information that has the ability to accommodate both separation and wholeness, yet each line also informs or speaks to the abutting lines, thus challenging: the sentence, the sentence's preoccupations, and the reader's expectations.
For some in Britain and the US, it has been a great year: in this version of events the will of the people, in the form of votes for Brexit and Donald Trump, has smashed triumphantly through the complacent expectations and blinkered preoccupations of a political elite.
Contrary to expectations, the key preoccupation was not fragrance, effectiveness, or irritation but the staining of clothes.
The findings of this mixed method design study indicated a high level of writing anxiety, with cognitive anxiety as its main type, as reflected in preoccupation with performance and high expectations, and fear of teacher's negative feedback, low self-confidence and poor linguistic knowledge as its main sources.
This overinvestment causes a preoccupation with results (especially failure!), expectations, and pressure that lead to doubt, worry, anxiety, and fear.
As they are letting go of regrets and Great Expectations, many other past preoccupations seem trivial.
Week 1: Introductory session - Tuesday 22 September There will be an extended discussion about the nature and purpose of the course, its etiquette and expectations, and the ambitions and preoccupations of the group.
Week 1: Introductory motivational workshop - Tuesday 8th September There will be an extended discussion about the nature and purpose of the course, its etiquette and expectations, and the ambitions and preoccupations of the group.
Analysis of the eight anxious preoccupation items revealed misfit to the Rasch model expectations, as indicated by a significant item-trait interaction chi-square probability value (p <.001) and a high item fit residual SD (SD=2.61) (Analysis 1 Table 2).
