Drewest
| dc.contributor.author | Webster, Andrew, author | |
| dc.contributor.author | Cooperman, Matthew B., advisor | |
| dc.contributor.author | Beachy-Quick, Dan J., committee member | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lehene, Marius, committee member | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-08-27T03:57:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-06-03T03:57:09Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In "Tradition and the Individual Talent," T. S. Eliot wrote, "[Tradition] cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour." This injunction hovers over these poems. They are working for a tradition--something to belong to. In a sense, the subject of their problem is their work--poetry. Therefore that is the work that has had a need to be done. On the one hand these poems represent three years of working to understand one's own tradition; on the other, they represent the struggle of maintaining one's identity in the face of an ever present lineage. Think of identity as a bird's nest--A singular place to return to. The bird nest as subjectivity preferred strict objectivity; although the social aspect of a bird's nest is certainly important, something forces a return to the nest. Moving further inward, the songbird's syrinx, the lyric mode, as opposed to the epic. A sole singer, Sappho and her lyre, and so poetic identity. A bird's nest, a personal tradition, a linguistic conundrum. The opacity of language a paradox: the need language to communicate, ideate, the world; yet the semiotic condition persists, and a thing which signifies is not the thing which it signifies, and so there is a gap. John Clare's "Thee Nightingales Nest" [sic], describes a speaker "creeping on hands and knees through matted thorns / to find her nest. . . ." and so crawls into a tradition. The nightingale's nest is hidden, but curiously so, "where rude boys never think to look." In the grass, not in a tree. On hands and knees "all [seem] as hidden as a thought unborn." The speaker has "nestled down / And watched her while she sung." From the nest issues a song. We hear the song, but we don't see the singer. The bird's nest is an idea and a thing--it is, and stands in for, a thing: clarifying and obscuring. The bird will be outlived by its nest, its singing; the problem, the work; a tradition, an individual; poetry, making. | |
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| dc.format.medium | masters theses | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10217/166932 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Colorado State University. Libraries | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | 2000-2019 | |
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| dc.rights.access | Access is limited to the Colorado State University community only. | |
| dc.title | Drewest | |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dcterms.embargo.expires | 2017-06-03 | |
| dcterms.embargo.terms | 2017-06-03 | |
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| thesis.degree.discipline | English | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Colorado State University | |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) |
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