| An examination of the various contexts (mythic, symbolic, thematic, visual, and aural) in which repetition and reconciliation are used in six poems by Randall Jarrell, Maxine Kumin, Stanley Kunitz, W. S. Merwin, Theodore Roethke, and Wallace Stevens is followed by a collection of the author's own poems. Her reflections, not only upon the writing process, but also upon the process of coming to a new awareness and better understanding of her own work (which includes stone sculpture as well as poetry) as a result of the examination, take into consideration the nature and order of artistic form and the fundamental principle of repetition that appears---regardless of medium---as rhythm and pattern. |
