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The Boy with the Aluminum Hat

Kapela, Steven J.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1398358520

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2014, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, English (Arts and Sciences).
These poems are the culmination of an experiment toward understanding how certain celestial phenomena influence our inner and outer lives in an abundance of ways that simply go undetected by the senses. In an effort to both understand the inner life's relation to the outer, the poems undertake the project (through a dream-like tone, crafted to convey the speaker's journey of rediscovering senses) of understanding the relationship of humans and the world, perspective and self. Split between the concepts of refraction and reflection, The Boy with the Aluminum Hat is a metaphor, a voice-piece to vocalize both the paranoia of never understanding our lives and the desire to know the truth of existence. Both sections collide with the anxiety of living in the world on a daily basis. Simultaneously, the poems illustrate the body's relation to this world that it is rooted to and from which it is occasionally uprooted.
Halliday Mark (Advisor)
62 p.
American Literature; Earth; Electromagnetics; Personality
Poetry; poems; paranoia; space; moon; stars; sun; aluminum hat; the boy; Steven Kapela; Refraction; Reflection; Geography of Dreams; Dreams; Nightmares; distant; signals; Heart; Soul; time; timelessness; autobiographical

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Citations

  • Kapela, S. J. (2014). The Boy with the Aluminum Hat [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1398358520

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kapela, Steven. The Boy with the Aluminum Hat. 2014. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1398358520.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kapela, Steven. "The Boy with the Aluminum Hat." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1398358520

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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