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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Good Darkness: Affirmation in the Poems of Robert Bly, W. S. Merwin, and James Wright
Abstract
dc:descriptionRobert Bly, W. S. Merwin, and James Wright are Post-Modern American poets who share aesthetic, moral, and political concerns. All show a desire for an affirmative vision as well as a sense of how to arrive at it. Rather than extol the traditionally affirmative resonances of lofty mountains, starry skies, and rising suns, these poets write of ceaseless rivers, chaotic seas, and profound darkness and silence. Though such subjects are ordinarily connected with fear and death, these poets explore their potential for complex, often uneasy, and remarkably intense forms of affirmation.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- Stiffler, Harold Randall
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8127704
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/66346