Asylum
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Montag, Kassandra
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2011-05
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This thesis contains 39 poems arranged into six sections. The sections are arranged with poems of similar style and subject matter/theme into the same sections. Chronologically (first section to sixth section), each section can be seen as follows: meditative poems dealing with existential concerns, poems with either disturbing situations or troubled speakers, poems addressing familial or romantic love, lyrical narratives with strong historical settings, more experimental poems with a stronger lyrical presence, and lyrical poems exploring different manifestations of allegedly “abnormal” psyches. While many poems have elements that fit into many categories, the sections were arranged with attention to allowing the manuscript a movement through various stages of contemplation, experience, relations to people or settings, and emotional turmoil. Thus, the over-arching development of the manuscript moves from reflective pieces, to pieces of engaging the speaker’s external contexts of experience, to finally pieces that explore the more emotive, irrational aspects of the human condition.
Major influences include, but are not limited to: Louise Gluck, Jean Valentine, James Tate, Don Welch, Susan Aizenberg, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roethke, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Dylan Thomas, Jorie Graham, e.e. cummings, and Mary Oliver. Techniques with form include variations in line length and stanza breaks, and attention to differing sounds and rhythms, according to the poems’ needs. The poems originated from disparate sources such as: word fields, epigraphs, memories, dreams, historical research, photographs, other narratives, or imagined images. These poems hope to not only represent aspects of the human condition, but to reinvent ways of experiencing it, so it may be seen anew, and felt anew.
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