Blue ring of fire

Title: Blue ring of fire
Creator: O’Flaherty, Craig
Subject: Creative writing (Higher education) -- South Africa
Subject: South African poetry (English) -- 21st century
Date Issued: 2018
Date: 2018
Type: text
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MA
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/63615
Identifier: vital:28448
Description: My poems are reflections of shape, colour and emotions expressed through imagery. Their unsentimental landscape-realism echo my own feelings as well as broader human dimensions of contradiction and uncertainty, without trying to resolve them. In the same way that photography is the art of 'painting with light', my poems seek a language that evokes light and darkness. They aspire to what Keats said when writing about ‘negative capability’: “Poetical character has no self, it is anything and nothing, it has no character and enjoys light and shade”. My poems explore what I have learned about form – how line-length, syntax and musicality can add grace and energy to language. Poets that have influenced me include the classical Chinese poets such as Du Fu and Li Po, and the Generation of 27 Spanish poets, such as Antonio Machado and Leon Felipe.
Format: 54 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University
Publisher: Faculty of Humanities, Institute for the Study of English in Africa
Language: English
Rights: O’Flaherty, Craig

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