Advisory Committee Chair
Adam Vines
Advisory Committee Members
James Braziel
Kerry Madden
Daniel Siegel
Gale Temple
Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
2015
Degree Name by School
Master of Arts (MA) College of Arts and Sciences
Abstract
Ritual Behavior is a collection of twenty-five poems. Each poem in the collection adheres to a particular form. The forms include the following: blank verse, haiku, syllabics, prose poem, villanelle, triolet, pantoum, and others. Rhythm plays a vital role in every poem, and most of the strongest poems in the collection employ meter and rhyme. The major themes include human loneliness and alienation, the absurdity of modern society, concepts of reality and memory, loss/discovery of spirituality, economic despair, death, and poetry itself.
Recommended Citation
Walker, Jason G., "Ritual Behavior" (2015). All ETDs from UAB. 3241.
https://digitalcommons.library.uab.edu/etd-collection/3241