Date of Award
12-2004
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Departmental Honors
Department
English
Abstract
The first poem with which I became fully engaged--that is, the first poem with which I interacted beyond one or two readings--was Wallace Stevens' "Autumn Refrain" my senior year in high school. At this point in my life, I was already enamored with literature, and I had written fair amounts of "poetry" for my high school creative writing classes. However, even though I occasionally enjoyed reading poetry and understood that its language tended to be more compact than other types of literature, if I didn't understand a poem after reading it through once or twice I set it aside and moved on, usually figuring a teacher would explain or map out difficult passages. As a result, reading more than three or four poems at a time simply left me with a headache.
Recommended Citation
Shepherd, Faith, "Under the Bridge: Poems by Faith Shepherd with Critical Introduction" (2004). Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects. 803.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/honors/803
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Faculty Mentor
Michael Sowder
Departmental Honors Advisor
Kurt Miller