Record Details
This Changes Everything
ScholarsArchive at Oregon State University
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | This Changes Everything |
| Names |
Douglass, Ellie Francis
(creator) Holmberg, Karen (advisor) |
| Date Issued | 2015-05-04 (iso8601) |
| Note | Graduation date: 2015 |
| Abstract | This Changes Everything is a modern exploration of grief--the emotional complications of loss and its effects on memory and future. The speaker, grappling with her role as daughter, care giver, future wife and mother, and self, apart from these relationships, leads the reader through the four sections of the book: the first, a harrowing play-by-play if her father's death and immediate aftermath; the second, a series of dream and travel poems that gesture towards the afterlife; the third, poems from the trenches of grief; and the fourth, the discovery of new love and inquiry on how to keep the father's memory alive as time passes. This arc is unified by a consistent voice, one which keeps the reader intimately close. The collection asks the reader to consider grief as ongoing, yet ever-shifting. |
| Genre | Thesis/Dissertation |
| Topic | Poetry |
| Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/1957/56187 |
