Original poems focusing on the contradictions, accommodations, and restrictions characteristic of the human condition are grouped into five sections. The first section presents several, often narrative, portraits of children and young adults whose lives have been damaged by early experience. Poems in the second section also use narrative techniques to deal primarily with individuals who for varying reasons have failed to achieve conventional success or happiness, but who nonetheless demonstrate some tenacity or brightness of spirit. The next two sections focus in a more personal way on responses to grief, loneliness, frustration, despair, and the growing awareness of age and mortality. In the final section, poems explore selected moments in which perceptions of continuity, joy, or triumph (albeit tenuous and mixed) dominate. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, Section: A, page: 1751. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1984.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75333 |
| Creators | Brock, Frances Ragsdale |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 76 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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