Is this trip necessary?
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Major/Program
Creative Writing
First Advisor's Name
Denise Duhamel
First Advisor's Committee Title
Committee Chair
Second Advisor's Name
Campbell McGrath
Third Advisor's Name
Bruce Harvey
Date of Defense
11-2-2010
Abstract
IS THIS TRIP NECESSARY? is a collection of narrative poems portraying journeys. Section I focuses on the speaker's grandfather's journey from Lithuania to Ohio and on the speaker's Cleveland childhood. In Section II, an adult speaker, a psychiatrist, portrays the inner journeys of his patients and his own psychological development. Section III is a coming of age account of worldwide travel. Section IV explores the home the speaker finds in Florida, and its connections to the world. Literary sources for this book include Chaucer and Shakespeare's depictions of journeys and a sense of culture, profession, and place. Whitman expressed American dynamism, pride, and break with tradition. Several contemporary poets deal with migration, inner journeys, and/or health including the writer-healers Richard Berlin, Rafael Campo, and Cortney Davis. Poetic forms used in this book include sonnets, a double sonnet crown, sestinas, prose poems, list poems, abecedarians, haikus, and originally structured verse.
Identifier
FI15101439
Recommended Citation
Frank, Sheldon Michael, "Is this trip necessary?" (2010). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 3412.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3412
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