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A Forecast

Abstract

dc:description.abstract

A Forecast is a manuscript of poems that explores themes of longing, loss, uncertainty, time, place, and love. The poems also attempt to explore and adorn these themes through inventiveness and imagination. While inhabiting this imaginative landscape, the poems play with notions of perception, acting as objective witnesses to very subjective persons, places, and things. These poems are held together by their movement through stasis, fascination with weather, seasons, and the future, and the fragmented yet illuminated spaces they occupy, where the extraordinary seems ordinary and the ordinary seems extraordinary. What results is a series of explorations through a dreamlike world, led by a voice who wonders, hesitates, and hides, all the while trying to say something, to shape the world and tug you into it.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Fine Arts
Level thesis:degree_level
masters
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Creative Writing
Department dc:contributor.department
English
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
2011

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Moriarty, Megan Marie
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Hicok, Robert G.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Meitner, Erika S.
  • Roy, Lucinda H.

Subjects

dc:subject × 4

Rights

dc:rights
Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright
Language dc:language.iso
en_US

Identifiers

dc:identifier.*
Dc Identifier Other
etd-05102011-145934
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/77477

Chain of custody

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2026-07-22
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citation

Moriarty, Megan Marie. A Forecast. masters thesis, Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77477