THE NECESSITY OF MOVEMENT【翻译】

Allen, Emily. “The Necessity of Movement.” Doctor of Philosophy (English), August
2014, 78 pp., references, 15 titles.
This dissertation is a collection of poems preceded by a critical preface. The preface
considers emotional immediacy—or the idea of enacting in readers an emotional drama that
appears genuine and simultaneous with the speaker's experience—and furthermore argues
against the common criticism that accessibility means simplicity, ultimately reifying the
importance of accessibility in contemporary poetry. The preface is divided into an introduction
and three sections, each of which explores a different technique for creating immediacy,
exemplified by Robert Lowell’s "Waking in the Blue,” Sylvia Plath's "Lady Lazarus,” and
Louise Gluck's "Eros." The first section examines "Waking in the Blue,” and the poem's
systematic inflation and deflation of persona as a means of revealing complexity a ambiguity.
The second section engages in a close reading of "Lady Lazarus,” arguing that the poem's
initially deliberately false erodes into sincerity, creating immediacy. The third section considers
the continued importance of persona beyond confessionalism, and argues that in "Eros," it is the
apparent lack of drama, and the focus on the cognitive process, that facilitates emotional
immediacy.
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Copyright 2014
by
Emily Allen
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank my committee members—Dr. Bruce Bond and Dr. David
Holdeman—and my dissertation director, Dr. Corey Marks, for their support and guidance in not
only this project, but over the last five years of research and writing. I would like to thank Dr.
Marks and Dr. Bond specifically for their encouragement, often when I have needed it the most.
Special thanks is also in order for my family, specifically, my father, Dr. Rodney Allen, and my
husband, doctoral candidate J. Andrew Briseño for the continued support and editing.
These poems, some in slightly different versions, first appeared in the following journals:
Poetry Quarterly:
“St. Denis Immaculate Conception Cemetery,”
“Parallax,
“Explanation”
Southern Poetry Anthology:
“Field Trip,”
“The Necessity of Movement,”
“Apology”
Foothill Poetry Journal: “The Blind”
Prism Review:
“The Real,”
“Frost in April”
Barely South Review: “Listen”
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS........................................................................................................... iii
PART I. LANGUAGE THAT LIES LIKE TRUTH: PLAIN SPEECH, PERSONA, AND THE
ARTIFACE OF INTIMACY .......................................................................................................... 1
Plain Style and Persona....................................................................................................... 2
Lowell's Inflation and Deflation of Language and Character........................................... 10
The Audacity of Revelation: Sylvia Plath and the Transformation of Persona ................ 16
Epiphany in Progress: Glück and the Complexity of Self-Discovery .............................. 22
Embracing Complexity..................................................................................................... 27
Works Cited....................................................................................................................... 29
PART II. THE NECESSITY OF MOVEMENT.............................................................................. 31
I. Home ............................................................................................................................. 32
St. Denis Immaculate Conception Cemetery........................................................ 33
The Blind .............................................................................................................. 34
See You at the Pole................................................................................................ 35
The Real ................................................................................................................ 36
Bully...................................................................................................................... 37
Field Trip............................................................................................................... 38
Dona Eis Requiem ................................................................................................ 39
Disclosure ............................................................................................................. 40
II. Tourist........................................................................................................................... 41
Atmore, Alabama.................................................................................................. 42
Distancing ............................................................................................................. 43
Jet Lag................................................................................................................... 44
Pompeii ................................................................................................................. 45
Time to Keep Silent, Time to Speak ..................................................................... 46
Edna, Arkansas...................................................................................................... 47
Looking for the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial, Dresden, Germany............................ 48
Barbary Speaks from the Ruins ............................................................................ 50
The Necessity of Movement ................................................................................. 51
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III. Displaced..................................................................................................................... 55
In the Atchafalaya Basin ....................................................................................... 56
Like Being Killed.................................................................................................. 57
No Root Among Us............................................................................................... 58
What Remains Behind .......................................................................................... 59
Heart's Ease........................................................................................................... 60
On the Way to Father's Day Dinner with your Family ......................................... 61
Salt Down to Cure................................................................................................. 62
Apology................................................................................................................. 63
Frost in April ......................................................................................................... 64
Plea for Asylum..................................................................................................... 65
IV. Stasis ........................................................................................................................... 66
Slack Tide.............................................................................................................. 67
Parallax ................................................................................................................. 68
Explanation ........................................................................................................... 69
Words Borrowed from Sensible Things................................................................ 70
Removing the Nests .............................................................................................. 71
Mizuko Kuyo ........................................................................................................ 72
Listen..................................................................................................................... 77
Notes ................................................................................................................................. 78

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