Graduation Year
Spring 2013
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Literature
Reader 1
Nicholas Warner
Reader 2
Ronald Riggio
Terms of Use & License Information
Rights Information
© 2013 Wade M. Vaughn
Abstract
Poetry and Power: The Intersection of Poetry and Transformational Leadership uses literary analysis to show how poetry is an unexplored form of transformational leadership. The paper analyzes the essays and poems of Emerson, Shelley, Sidney, Plato, Carlyle, Whitman, Hugo, Kipling, Henley, and McKay, comparing them against the rhetoric of transformational leaders such as King, Kennedy, and Gandhi. Special attention is paid to how poetry embodies the four pillars of transformational leadership – idealized influence, inspirational motivation, individualized consideration, and intellectual stimulation.
Recommended Citation
Vaughn, Wade M., "Poetry and Power: The Intersection of Poetry and Transformational Leadership" (2013). CMC Senior Theses. 603.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/603
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
