This Family of Things: Reflecting on the significance of objects in poetry
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Date
2019
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
The creative project is a mini-thesis. It is made up of a collection of poems, titled This Family of
Things. The collection consists mainly of narrative and descriptive poems which explore the
relationship between people and objects and objects and space. The poems explore the day-today
experiences of a mother and her young son. The poems exhibit certain elements of the
narrative poem. The poems tell a story, and there are two distinct characters and instances of
dialogue.
This mini-thesis also includes a reflective essay in which I discuss the functionality of objects in
poetry. In the essay, I discuss the potentially of objects in creative work. I discuss to what extent
objects illuminate space and how objects can potentially disrupt space. I also discuss the
separation of objects and things. I discuss creative influences and the various processes involved
in the formulation of the creative project.
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Magister Artium - MA
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This family things, Poems