BLOOD ORE
Date Available
4-18-2021
Year of Publication
2019
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Document Type
Master's Thesis
College
Arts and Sciences
Department/School/Program
English
First Advisor
Julia Mae Johnson
Second Advisor
Jane Ansel Elkins
Abstract
While the great poet, James Whitcomb Riley, a native poet from my hometown of Greenfield, has a strong sense of Indiana and his Hoosier-ness. I compare myself to Whitcomb Riley, only in the sense of place, because my understanding of poetry was shaped around his work growing up in Hancock County. I am personally influenced by other poets such as Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman, and James Wright in style and in content. My poetry contains a mixture of confessionalism and pastoral poems and doesn’t shy away from critiquing every aspect of place, family, and mental illness. These intersecting ideals and styles (confessional and pastoral in fixed forms/free-verse) place me at a crossroads of my own, where navigating my position within these frameworks alters my view of the Midwest and how a mental illness may, in fact, be worse off because of the isolation, dissociation, and perception.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2019.154
Recommended Citation
Flick, Jeremy Alan, "BLOOD ORE" (2019). Theses and Dissertations--English. 89.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/89
