Dress You Up in Scarlet Fine is a collection of poetry which seeks to bring together the diverse elements of landscape and geography, myth and fairy tale, the artistic and the natural, and to reimagine them through the lens of mytho-feminist revision. Through these poems, the speaker unearths the submerged voices of marginalized/outsider characters – wicked witches, ugly stepsisters, small children, and scorned women – and lends a tongue even to the landscapes themselves. What weaves these different threads together is the common language of poetry – imagery, rhythm, story, metaphor, and musicality – and an obedience to what Jose Luis Borges called the "two obligations of poetry: to communicate a precise instance and to touch us physically, as the presence of the sea does¹." / Graduation date: 2012 / Access permanently restricted to the OSU Community at author's request
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ORGSU/oai:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:1957/30074 |
| Date | 01 January 8099 |
| Creators | Moon, Karen (Karen Cecile) |
| Contributors | Holmberg, Karen |
| Source Sets | Oregon State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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