Full length book of literary analysis of how sound can be used to create meaning.
This book is useful not only for those interested in Richard Hugo's poetry, but for those interested in understanding and writing literature. Word choices made in poetry and fiction can be made considering how the sound emphasizes the conceptual impact, and mood you desire to create, using rhythm, hard or soft consonants, pauses, enjambment. . . .
Please be aware when reading it that no one is really expected to commit to reading the whole thing. You can just leap across its surface like a trout. Find what you want that's useful in this free offering. This was written as an MA thesis for FSU long ago on a typewriter, and this is the only form it exists in now, being scanned from that. That process doesn't allow for revision. Some statements are dated to the perception of the time period, such as the great influence of Hugo on poetry. He has been very influential in many ways, however, besides just his use of sound. His legacy includes judging the Yale Younger Poets Award, the Richard Hugo Sense of Place Award, Poetry Northwest Richard Hugo and Theodore Roethke Prize, and the Richard Hugo House. He also taught at the U. of Montana for 18 years.
Please be aware when reading it that no one is really expected to commit to reading the whole thing. You can just leap across its surface like a trout. Find what you want that's useful in this free offering. This was written as an MA thesis for FSU long ago on a typewriter, and this is the only form it exists in now, being scanned from that. That process doesn't allow for revision. Some statements are dated to the perception of the time period, such as the great influence of Hugo on poetry. He has been very influential in many ways, however, besides just his use of sound. His legacy includes judging the Yale Younger Poets Award, the Richard Hugo Sense of Place Award, Poetry Northwest Richard Hugo and Theodore Roethke Prize, and the Richard Hugo House. He also taught at the U. of Montana for 18 years.
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