Hall, Megan2017-07-032017-07-032016-06-16http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11868/125The View Looking East and Rear Windows recounts the narrative of a life lived in the South. With appearances from Eurydice, Bathsheba and Mr. Clean, the collection intertwines recognizable figures and personal, emotional truths. These poems look to the past, encouraging us to question how much of ourselves is defined both by what we do and what has been done to us. The resulting concept: the half-lives, pieces that we leave behind and the half-truths we compel ourselves to believe.en-USPoetryAmerican SouthThesis