Frogging It: A poetic Analysis of Relationship Dissolution

• Main Author: Sandra L. Faulkner
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hipatia Press 2012-10-01
• Series: Qualitative Research in Education
• Subjects: poetry; poetic analysis; performative writing; relational dissolution
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.4471/qre.2012.10

Often, themes in work and life intertwine; the author recognized that a cadre of poems she had written during the past several years were about relationship dissolution. The poems concerned romantic and friendship dissolution and the aspects of identity creation and loss this entails. The author presents the poems and makes an explicit connection to interpersonal relationship dissolution literature through the technique of poetic analysis. This analysis serves as an exemplar for how poetry as performative writing offers a valuable addition to interpersonal communication research through the poeticizing of relational dissolution as an everyday relational challenge.