"The Long Watch": Original Poems / An Exploration of Poetic Voice
Location
Science Center, K209
Document Type
Presentation
Start Date
4-25-2014 1:30 PM
End Date
4-25-2014 2:30 PM
Abstract
My project presents a selection of original poems I produced for my creative writing capstone. I drew inspiration for the poems in large part from the works of T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Jorie Graham, and Charles Wright. I explored the particularities of each poet’s voice at the syntactical, formal, tonal, and philosophical levels, in order to inform my own writing process. I hope that the elements of each poet that resonated most with me have coalesced into a versatile poetic voice, capable of uniting divergent influences while maintaining its own unique identity.
Recommended Citation
Leach, David, ""The Long Watch": Original Poems / An Exploration of Poetic Voice" (04/25/14). Senior Symposium. 15.
https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/seniorsymp/2014/presentations/15
Major
Jazz Piano; Creative Writing
Advisor(s)
Dan Wall, Jazz Studies
Kazim Ali, Creative Writing
Project Mentor(s)
Kazim Ali, Creative Writing
April 2014
"The Long Watch": Original Poems / An Exploration of Poetic Voice
Science Center, K209
My project presents a selection of original poems I produced for my creative writing capstone. I drew inspiration for the poems in large part from the works of T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Jorie Graham, and Charles Wright. I explored the particularities of each poet’s voice at the syntactical, formal, tonal, and philosophical levels, in order to inform my own writing process. I hope that the elements of each poet that resonated most with me have coalesced into a versatile poetic voice, capable of uniting divergent influences while maintaining its own unique identity.
Notes
Session I, Panel 5 - Measure for Measure: Meditations on Metamorphoses, Don Quixote, and “The Long Watch”
Moderator: Patrick O’Connor, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies