Date of Award

5-2019

Document Type

Thesis campus only

Department

English

First Advisor

Jennifer Browne

Second Advisor

Victoria Aarons

Third Advisor

Willis Salomon

Abstract

An essay and collection of poetry that frame trauma as a pathology. The process of poetics, in the articulation of trauma, offers a location of communion between image and experience to access the consolatory nature of grief; because contemporary poetry, as an amorphous container of accumulation and expression, constructs a narrative through metaphors that overrides the elusive correlation between the relieved experiences in PTSD and the point of traumatic origin.

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