This thesis focuses on the long poem <italic>The City of Dreadful Night</italic> by James "B.V." Thomson and examines the ways in which Thomson fosters community out of estrangement through the vehicle of poetry. Thomson's background, critical writings, and other poems are examined in addition to <italic>The City</italic> to obtain a sense of his personal (and poetic) philosophy. This examination is coupled with an exploration of Victorian representations of "the city" and the experience of the "modern" world to illustrate the ways in which Thomson's important poem is not altogether estranged from contemporary themes in poetic discourse. The culmination of the thesis is a close reading of the poem itself, which, though full of depictions of isolation and despair, offers a comfort: readers who share in the sentiments of the poem are united in their suffering; a community of the estranged, joined by poetry.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TCU/oai:etd.tcu.edu:etd-07072010-095617 |
| Date | 07 July 2010 |
| Creators | Robinson, Michelle R. |
| Contributors | Linda Hughes, NO SEARCH ENGINE ACCESS |
| Publisher | Texas Christian University |
| Source Sets | Texas Christian University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf, application/octet-stream |
| Source | http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-07072010-095617/ |
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