Date of Award
Spring 5-2020
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.F.A.
Degree Program
Creative Writing
Department
English
Major Professor
John Gery
Second Advisor
Kay Murphy
Third Advisor
Carolyn Hembree
Abstract
Switch is a selection of poetry, composed from 2017 to 2020, that uses figuration from the natural world and quotidian experience to question three paradoxes of moral development: naiveté or culpability, interdependence or autonomy, and replication or authenticity. Contextually, these are coming-of-age poems on power––sex, family, and spirituality. Technically, the poems switch from those using a hybrid of traditional and experimental formal elements to those in conventional free verse. The collection includes sonnets, a pantoum, a villanelle, and several dramatic monologues, to serve as an ode to the twentieth century development of expressionism in the arts.
Recommended Citation
Lepori, Michelle, "Switch" (2020). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 2773.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2773
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