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BETWEEN CONTINENTS
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TitleBETWEEN CONTINENTS
AuthorHassan, Mona
Keywordspoems
Abstract"Between Continents" is a collection of thirty-two poems. The most challenging aspect of finding the right voice and the appropriate metaphors in "Between Continents" has been the difficulty in assimilating a diversity of traditions within my own work. The polarity of aesthetic values is a well known feature of contemporary American poetry. Charles Webb in his essay on the competing aesthetics in poetry uses the metaphor of apples and orangutans to point out how exaggerated this difference really is. Jorie Graham sees in the way young writers today are simultaneously influenced by elements of poets whose philosophies mutually exclude each other "without feeling the need to be accountable to the beliefs that gave birth to those voices and styles they imitate" a testament to "the history of how any art form breaks through a period style." My personal struggle, in locating the values that I brought into my reading and writing of poetry involved making peace between combating impulses of personal confession and impersonal abstraction.
AdviserStap, Donald
PublisherUniversity of Central Florida
DegreeM.F.A.
Degree DisciplineDepartment of English
Degree GrantorArts and Humanities
Degree ProgramEnglish
Graduation Date2006-12-01
TypeMaster's thesis
Access LevelPublic - Allow Worldwide Access
Release Date2008-01-01
RepositoryUniversity Archives
Repository CollectionElectronic Theses and Dissertations
IdentifierCFE0001384
Access Linkhttp://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0001384

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