English Theses and Dissertations

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    A Spade, A Spade
    (2020) Murray-Daniels, Shonte Nicole; Collier, Michael R.; Creative Writing; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    The poems in A Spade, A Spade are mainly obsessed with the poet’s understanding and reconciliation with her family. The collection is in four parts, each of which investigates the speaker’s perspective as a daughter, sister, and granddaughter in a broken family. The poems are rooted heavily in memory, as the speaker recollects her time with her estranged father, and comes to term with her mother’s battle with lung cancer. A Spade, A Spade carries a dance motif throughout to explore the body as it grows and deteriorates.
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    Ineffable Catalogue
    (2013) Luterman, Sara Deanne; Arnold, Elizabeth; English Language and Literature; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    Ineffable Catalogue is a collection of poems concerned with the limits of language. The medicalization and industrialization of natural parts of life cycles serves as a central theme. Simple language and images ranging from the strong to the surreal are employed. The poems are primarily free verse, but are carefully ordered through the use and breaking of rhythm. There is also a thread of the biblical, linking contemporary plagues with the Pentateuch.
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    Flight Animal
    (2007-05-08) DeBlassie, Katherine Priscilla; Plumly, Stanley; Creative Writing; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    Flight Animal is a collection of poetry in four sections. Specific layering of names, countries and cities frame deeply personal experience; the speaker's tone, in patterned free verse, connects events and perspectives. New Mexico, London, the Chihuahua Desert, Italy, Prague, Mexico and New York are reflected upon. Objects that aid travel ranging from buses, wings, trains, legs, bridges, planes, bicycles and cars save as both literal and metaphorical "vehicles." The title of the collection, Flight Animal, suggests the book's inherent subject of movement as a means of survival.
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    To Waking
    (2004-04-26) Coleman, Jennifer Leigh; Plumley, Stanly; Creative Writing
    The major concept tying this collection together is a sense of waking, or an awareness about ordinary aspects of life. In the collection, this usually occurs in the realm of relationships, both familial and romantic. The first third of the poems are focused on family and the interchanging roles and subsequent acceptance, especially when death occurs. In the final third of the collection, the poems shift to romantic relationships. Bridging these two subjects are poems that focus on the gap between leaving "home" and creating a new one and the unexpected discontent with that seemingly lost time.
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    Western's Dream
    (2004-05-12) Osborne, Joanna Beth; Plumly, Stanley; Creative Writing
    The majority of these poems were written in the last two years, yet they represent a range of experimentation which was implied in earlier writing. I have arranged them in three sections, each consistent in a variation of theme and form and while they vary within a section, patterns may be found throughout the thesis as a whole. Ekphrastic poems create one thread, yet within each of these are other underlying themes about relationships, not just between people, but between people and objects and objects themselves. This concept often unfolds as a psychological landscape that induces a pastoral, as well as the narrative itself. The common shifts to surreal images imply a psyche in which the surreal may be disorienting but never insincere. Often the truth within these poems lies in these absurd shifts, revealing the poems' true subjectstheir speakers, who attempt to narrate the landscapes I've created for their voices.