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The Public

Swaney, Patrick R.

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2016, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, English (Arts and Sciences).
The dissertation is divided into two sections: an essay titled “Reality Checks: Direct Questions, Shifting Voices, and the Poetic Intrusion” and a book manuscript titled The Public. “Reality Checks” examines the poetic strategy of posing a particular type of direct question, which often represents a shift in the controlling voice of the poem. These shifts or intrusions disrupt the composed surface of the poem while acknowledging a reality outside of the poem’s constructed lyric space. The essay looks at the ways this strategy works to navigate the gap between the world of the poem and the world of lived events using poems by Robert Frost, Robert Lowell, William Carlos Williams, Frank O’Hara, and Elizabeth Bishop. The Public is a collection of poetry that explores the complex relationship between the individual and the collective and the possibility of shared experience.
Mark Halliday (Committee Chair)
79 p.

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  • Swaney, P. R. (2016). The Public [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1458640191

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Swaney, Patrick. The Public. 2016. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1458640191.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Swaney, Patrick. "The Public." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1458640191

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)