Abstract

While It's Still Morning is a collection of lyric poems exploring themes of love, gratitude, and praise. The critical essay introducing the collection discusses possible pitfalls of this genre of poetry and how I've sought to avoid them. It also details qualities often present in my favorite poems (surprise, particularity, strangeness, tension, attention, allusion) and ways in which I've striven to create these qualities in my own poetry.

Degree

MFA

College and Department

Humanities; English

Rights

https://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/

Date Submitted

2023-04-10

Document Type

Thesis

Handle

http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/etd12698

Keywords

creative writing, poetic theory, lyric poetry, praise poetry, love poetry

Language

english

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