Throughout the article, Cooper reveals defining moments in Robert Creeley’s life which, aids analyzing and understanding his works more effectively. Creeley’s rebellious behavior towards traditionally defined values is evident through his life and his works, as he abandons his Harvard degree just a few months shy from earning it, in order to acquire an unusual experience. Moreover, he even decides to join an experimental school to violate the conventional status quo in poetry which was long-established by the likes of T.S Eliot and Robert Frost. Through examining Creeley’s style, self-portrait is examined differently as throughout the poem the protagonist is exemplified as an angry broken man, however, given Creeley’s psychology the poem’s meaning transforms to becoming a poem about attempts of escaping a certain archetype but is tied attached by certain physical or emotional qualities.
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Similarly, the parallelism between Creeley and the protagonist from self-portrait expands to include related psychologies as from a certain perspective both are attempting to escape traditional themes whether it is liberation from a standardized character or from defined schemes of success. Therefore, Jennifer Cooper’s article highlights certain psychological features that affect the meaning of Robert Creeley’s self-portrait from a psychoanalytic perspective through identifying similarities between Creeley himself and the protagonist of the
Similarly, the parallelism between Creeley and the protagonist from self-portrait expands to include related psychologies as from a certain perspective both are attempting to escape traditional themes whether it is liberation from a standardized character or from defined schemes of success. Therefore, Jennifer Cooper’s article highlights certain psychological features that affect the meaning of Robert Creeley’s self-portrait from a psychoanalytic perspective through identifying similarities between Creeley himself and the protagonist of the