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The Spinster and Flabby Lucy

Many contemporary writers maintain that a prime requisite of poetry is autobiographical sincerity. They would have the poet commit himself to an openness with his audience that is usually reserved for only the most intimate relationships. The thirty-two poems of this thesis were written as a reaction to current confessional trends and postulate that the creation of fictions to live by is an intrinsic part of the human process. Central to the work is the idea that past fictions, traditions, and myths are no longer functional, and no workable fictions have yet been created. The overriding image of the work is that of a dance in a mirrored room where illusion and reflection are difficult to separate from reality and where the dancers move without knowledge of the meaning of their movement.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc504532
Date08 1900
CreatorsAngel, Shelly
ContributorsLinebarger, J. M. (James Morris), 1934-, Sale, Richard, 1930-, Nixon, Nell
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatiii, 75 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Angel, Shelly, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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