The Sometimes Sister
This volume of original poetry is prefaced by a critical introduction studying the structures and themes of poems in Louise Glück's The Wild Iris. The introduction focuses on Glück's use of persona poems to counteract the poems spoken in the voice of a woman who can be closely identified w...
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| Format: | Dissertation |
| Language: | English |
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
01-01-2005
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| Summary: | This volume of original poetry is prefaced by a critical introduction studying the structures and themes of poems in Louise Glück's The Wild Iris. The introduction focuses on Glück's use of persona poems to counteract the poems spoken in the voice of a woman who can be closely identified with the author. The main themes the author deals with in her poems are religious doubts, the ending of relationships, and human anxiety towards death. The poems following the introduction also, initially, use personae as a means to take attention away from speakers readily identified with the author. However, most of these poems are narrative in scope, and they deal with religious doubts, tension among family members, and a female speaker's coming of age in the context of both familial and romantic relationships. |
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| ISBN: | 0542080656 9780542080654 |