Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

9/1/1976 - 6/30/1977

Funding Totals

$15,000.00 (approved)
$15,000.00 (awarded)


A Jungian Analysis of Theodore Roethke's Major Poetry

FAIN: FB-12758-76

Gerald T. Gordon
University of Maine, Presque Isle (Presque Isle, ME 04769-2844)

To explore via Jungian psychology the rift between a poet's ego- persona and his self, and to interpret this fractured Selfhood in the poetry of Theodore Roethke, whose poems are marked by definite mythic and archetyped patterns.