Down from the sun

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorBowering, Marilynen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-13T00:05:45Z
dc.date.available2024-08-13T00:05:45Z
dc.date.copyright1972en_US
dc.date.issued1972
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of English
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en
dc.description.abstractThe fifty-six poems in this collection are a selection of poems written over a period of two years. They are concerned with defining and describing a personal, perceptual, space. They possess a unity of mood although the subject matter ranges from the personal and the historical to the most abstract. In form, the poems vary from free verse to stress and rhymed verse. The poems have been arranged in five sections, each of which is grouped a round a single element-symbol from which the group seems to derive its character: earth, stone, animal, moon, sun. The poems in the first section deal with a search for roots, for the sources of the self and the poetry. In this "earth" grouping the reader is introduced to the voices which develop in the following sections. In the second section there are experiments with persona. Here mythic­-like figures stand for certain human types. In each it is apparent there is some deficiency. There is, on the whole, a conclusion of powerlessness and loss - personal , historical and religious. The third section, "animal", enters the area of personal mythic configurations. The poems are concerned with death and choice and the predominant images of death-life, darkness-light , black-white, underline this. They portray those characteristics of the self and mankind which can be represented in the guise of an animal. These are also poems of isolation and are concerned with the direction of forces. The fourth section, "moon", is a response to the death-choice. These are love poems, often ambiguous but sometimes a celebration of human sexual-spiritual relationships. They integrate the discoveries of the "animal" section with specific human experience. The poems of the last section explore the area of mystic perception. They are the "sun" poems, poems of initiation ("Baptism") and of new life ("Awakening"), and make use of knowledge gained in the preceding poems. The poems of DOWN FROM THE SUN are specifically "Western" poems. They are the outgrowth of life in a society where Old World mythologies no longer function with any immediacy and the individual is forced to re­create from the old a personal mythology from which to "work out" his own salvation.en
dc.format.extent84 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/17061
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.titleDown from the sunen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
BOWERING_MARILYN_MA_1972_371428.pdf
Size:
2.01 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download

Collections

Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD)
 
University of Victoria Libraries

We acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Esquimalt) Peoples on whose territory the university stands, and the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.