Date of Award
5-2024
Document Type
Campus Access Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
English/Creative Writing
First Advisor
Jill McDonough
Second Advisor
Shangyang Fang
Third Advisor
Sarah Hamblin
Abstract
TO FEAR THE HEAT OF THE SUN is a collection of poems that are interested in exploring and sitting with feelings that can be thought of as “ugly”. These feelings include sadness, anger, violence, loneliness, disgust, loss and, TO FEAR THE HEAT OF THE SUN is interested how these feelings manifest themselves in everyday life. The collection is interested in meeting these feelings head on while avoiding being coldhearted or distant and instead they yearn for warmth and belonging despite being engrossed in feelings that are ugly and difficult. The title is taken from a Shakespearian funeral hymn. In it those in mourning sing that in death, the deceased no longer needs to be harmed by life’s struggles, or burned by the heat of sun. These poems have no such solace, and search to find beauty and warmth in life, when the heat of the sun still rages overhead.
Recommended Citation
Capone, David, "To Fear the Heat of the Sun" (2024). Graduate Doctoral Dissertations. 957.
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/doctoral_dissertations/957
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