An original volume of poetry consisting of fifty-two poems, twelve of which have been previously published. The poems are arranged in a loose chronological order rather than thematically. The early ones are, for the most part, quite traditional in language, tone, and structure even though most of them are unrhymed. The themes are varied, ranging from romantic love to aubades. / Later poems are more modern in that they depend less and less on grammatical statement and more on image and metaphor. Themes are still varied, but a number of them attempt to utilize modern psychological approaches to understanding the dark underside of human nature. / These later poems are written in free verse. The theme of most of them is the human condition: love, rejection, loneliness, alienation, and the search for self and meaning in an existential world. In the most recent poems, there is a noticeable shift away from traditional imagery and grammatical statement. These poems are non-narrative, depending on allusion, tone, and symbols and images that carry their own internal logic rather than depending on grammatical syntax and logical time sequence. They are more innovative in that they attempt to more fully utilize the resources of language. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-12, Section: A, page: 3719. / Major Professor: Van Brock. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1988.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77880 |
| Contributors | Fuller, William Emory., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 62 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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