Date of Award
Spring 2016
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
English
Committee Director
Timothy S, Seibles
Committee Member
Luisa Igloria
Committee Member
Michael Pearson
Abstract
“Explaining Poetry to the Open Heart” is a creative writing thesis of poetry. It makes use of lyric and narrative poems that utilize sound, imagery, and other creative devices in order to communicate the narrator’s relationships with place, others, and self to the reader. A shifting point of view alternately restricts and expands the reader’s perspective in order to direct attention toward the reader’s own perceptions of the narrator, the world, and ultimately herself.
DOI
10.25777/620d-1t49
Recommended Citation
Larrimore, Matthew W..
"Explaining Poetry to the Open Heart"
(2016). Master of Fine Arts (MFA), thesis, English, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/620d-1t49
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/english_etds/72