English Language and Literature ETDs

Publication Date

5-31-1968

Abstract

Ultimately, it is for the reader to interpret and judge a poet's poem. And in much the same way the poet; after the impulse that produced the poem has diminished, must read as any other beholder of a public work. While in the process of composition, particularly during revision, however, the poet may be quite conscious of what he intends and the techniques he employs. But his discovery of the poem as it comes out of him, I am certain, is the larger part of the act of creation. Yet there must be some, to varying degrees, conscious control, and it is particularly in his role as reviser, an integral part of the creative act, that the poet understands more consciously the possible meanings of his poem and sets out to discover the form and technique that will best express that potential. And the more coherent poetic potential or possibilities for meaning a poet can create in his poem, the more expansive the poem will be, which is the meaning of concision in poetry.

Degree Name

English

Level of Degree

Masters

Department Name

English

First Committee Member (Chair)

Gene Frumkin

Second Committee Member

Illegible

Third Committee Member

Ernest Warnock Tedlock Jr.

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

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