The purpose of my dissertation is discovery. Its premise is that one can write his way to consciousness of self as well as other. The beginning poems deal with the neurotic components of the writer's childhood, the middle section discloses a rebellion and stagnation and the last section attempts to shift the focus from self to other. Many of the poems employ dialogue and make use of characters who often reappear in subsequent poems which tends to give the collection a "storylike" quality and adds to its unity. Whereas the opening section gathers an emotional intensity, the final poems often show a finer understanding and compassion. In a psychological sense, the narrator progresses from the Oedipal conflict to marriage, from chaos to integration. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-09, Section: A, page: 2659. / Major Professor: Hunt Hawkins. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1988.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77856 |
| Contributors | Hoffman, Deborah E., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 54 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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