Life,love and loss (under a few trees)
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description: In this collection of poems, I will explore three main existential concerns: life in general, love and loss, all arising from my own experience. The poems on the theme of life take the everyday as their subject matter ranging through my passions for textile-craft, gardening, my observations of the natural world, and my own, and others’, creativity. The love poems are mostly concerned with my love of my family and friends, but also recognise the four ancient Greek forms of love, i.e.: Eros, the idea of sexual passion and desire; Philia, or deep friendship; Agape, or love for everyone and Storge, or longstanding familial love. Loss is something which we all will experience, the more so if we have loved. My poems in this category are mostly concerned with death and grief but also touch on the loss of relationships. My research, as evidenced by my bibliography, will be into how other poets have approached each of my three themes. In my critical essay I intend to demonstrate this research condensed to an examination of the theme of loss. I have chosen this theme as I believe it to be the most complex and difficult to convey, despite being universally experienced. The poetry collections I shall study with specific respect to loss will include Max Porter’s Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Helen Dunmore’s Inside the Wave, but, as Bernard O’Donoghue has inspired me to write one of my poems, his Outliving is an essential text, as is Imtiaz Dharker’s Over the Moon which was recommended to me by a friend. It is these two poets’ work that has prompted my research question: ‘How do poets Imtiaz Dharker and Bernard O’Donoghue approach the theme of loss in their work and what impact has this had on my own writing?’ In my preparatory reading I have found many poet’s voices which speak to me and many of their poems have provided me with moments of recognition, consolation and fellow feeling. The question that interests me lies in the oxymoron that we are allthe same/ we are each …
abstract: In this collection of poems, I will explore three main existential concerns: life in general, love and loss, all arising from my own experience. The poems on the theme of life take the everyday as their subject matter ranging through my passions for textile-craft, gardening, my observations of the natural world, and my own, and others’, creativity. The love poems are mostly concerned with my love of my family and friends, but also recognise the four ancient Greek forms of love, i.e.: Eros, the idea of sexual passion and desire; Philia, or deep friendship; Agape, or love for everyone and Storge, or longstanding familial love. Loss is something which we all will experience, the more so if we have loved. My poems in this category are mostly concerned with death and grief but also touch on the loss of relationships. My research, as evidenced by my bibliography, will be into how other poets have approached each of my three themes. In my critical essay I intend to demonstrate this research condensed to an examination of the theme of loss. I have chosen this theme as I believe it to be the most complex and difficult to convey, despite being universally experienced. The poetry collections I shall study with specific respect to loss will include Max Porter’s Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Helen Dunmore’s Inside the Wave, but, as Bernard O’Donoghue has inspired me to write one of my poems, his Outliving is an essential text, as is Imtiaz Dharker’s Over the Moon which was recommended to me by a friend. It is these two poets’ work that has prompted my research question: ‘How do poets Imtiaz Dharker and Bernard O’Donoghue approach the theme of loss in their work and what impact has this had on my own writing?’ In my preparatory reading I have found many poet’s voices which speak to me and many of their poems have provided me with moments of recognition, consolation and fellow feeling. The question that interests me lies in the oxymoron that we are allthe same/ we are each …
author: Thomas, Luise
keywords: PR Llenyddiaeth Saesneg
date published: 2018-02
date modified: 2026-07-24T05:52:50Z
provider: University of Wales Trinity Saint David
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Wales Trinity Saint David

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value: 10.82227/repository.uwtsd.ac.uk.00001666