A collection of poems, for which the organizing principle was the movement from birth to death, from innocence to experience. Thus the poems in section one were initiatory, and proceeded through themes of initiation into sex and knowledge of mortality. Part two contained poems of experience, collecting a diverse range of experiences and feelings, with suffering the unifying element. Some of the poems were essentially political, exploring the guilt and helplessness the speakers feel when confronted with pervasive poverty. The persistent need for transcendent belief in the face of entropy and the apparent meaninglessness of existence was the theme of most of the poems in the final section. The general movement was from an optimistic nihilism to the amorphous certainty that life is more than materiality. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-07, Section: A, page: 2580. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1986.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75878 |
| Contributors | LOTT, RICKEY., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 66 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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