Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Identifier

6773

Date

2021

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts

Major

Creative Writing

Committee Chair

Marcus Wicker

Committee Member

Emily Skaja

Committee Member

Jeffrey Scraba

Abstract

This manuscript of original poems, entitled "The Mind Creates What It Needs," explores themes of home, grief, and mental health primarily through sonic play and metaphor. With fairly rigid formalism and general restraint from self-divulging, this work nevertheless examines where, how, and with whom we build community; how to process loss in the face of death and dying; as well as the healthy (and unhealthy) avenues for maintaining one's mental health in the face of difficult considerations such as these. Crucial to the collection is the interweaving of these varied themes over the course of the work; the ebbs and flows of the thematic considerations of the work are implemented through alliteration, assonance, consonance, and rhyme, as well as some logical leaps that mimic the twisted, tangled internal workings of the mind

Comments

Data is provided by the student.

Library Comment

Dissertation or thesis originally submitted to the local University of Memphis Electronic Theses & dissertation (ETD) Repository.

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