Julia Godley
English (Creative Writing)
Poems: “King of the Cloud-Dogs,” 2005

King of the Cloud-Dogs concerns itself with “the fantastical occurrences in everyday life,” according to its author. It contains thirteen poems of varying length and style, including the three-part “Child Song,” that touches upon such themes as Lewis Carroll’s interest in photography and the end of childhood. Later in his life, Carroll felt melancholic over his most fertile and imaginative period many decades before. Throughout many of Julia’s poems one catches fleeting glimpses of this lingering sadness. However, “Epilogue,” displayed here, demonstrates some of Carroll’s trademark whimsicality and draws interesting parallels with his last work, Sylvie and Bruno, in which he muses “Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?”