Dominican University of California
Advance and Retreat: Motion in Roethke's "North American Sequence"
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>Roethke's imagery provides the key to his purposes in these poems. Through an analysis of the imagery of movements which advance and retreat in "North American Sequence” I think the thematic and structural development of the poems will become apparent. Since the poems in the second and third sequences of The Far Field receive their thrust from the focus of the opening sequence unraveling "North American Sequence" should reveal more than the meaning of the six poems comprising it.</p> <p>Before working with the motion imagery of "North American Sequence," I shall first examine the structural patterns in the six poems; in doing so, I shall emphasize advancing and retreating motion as one of the structural bases of the poems. Turning to the imagery, I intend to examine the images which imply an advancing and retreating motion, as well as to correlate the patterns of the imagery with the patterns in the structure of the sequence.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Master's Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Humanities
- Year
- 1972
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Lyons, Carol
Subjects
dc:subject × 2Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholar.dominican.edu/humanities-print-theses/170
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholar.dominican.edu:humanities-print-theses-1169