Title
Date of Award
5-2013
Thesis Date
5-2013
Degree Type
Honors Thesis-Unrestricted
Degree Name
B.A.
Department
English
Degree Program
English
Director
John R. O. Gery
Abstract
My honors senior thesis, a creative project entitled Anything Else, is a collection of fourteen poems that reflects on trauma, loss, interpersonal relationships, and nature. Many of the poems are dramatic monologues, allowing me to portray a range of extreme voices, including a survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima, a U.S. veteran of the Iraq War, and murderer Perry Smith. Although I consider myself a free verse writer, preferring to work without regular meter or rhyme, one of the poems is written in iambic pentameter. In addition, I took material from the Yahoo! Answers website and composed it as a found poem, adding to the diversity of the manuscript. A number of questions are explored across the variety of speakers, themes, and forms of poems included here, often coming back to the question of whether or not there is anything else.
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Walter, Lauren, "Anything Else" (2013). Senior Honors Theses. 47.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/honors_theses/47
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