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Subversion Of Form: Mixing Poetry And Prose, Darby Alexandria Brown
Subversion Of Form: Mixing Poetry And Prose, Darby Alexandria Brown
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
My honors thesis project is called Subversion of Form: Mixing Poetry and Prose. The purpose has been to research how writers have interwoven poetry and prose, to write a creative nonfiction piece that uses both genres, and to improve as a writer through committing myself to this piece and solidifying writing as a daily practice. In my introduction, I outline the research I conducted on poetry and prose and my takeaways from the writers I read. I conclude that the purpose of prose is to tell, while the purpose of poetry is to search.
The piece that I have worked …