Sunlight and Shadows Portrait of the Life of a Woman

Carolyn deJoie's poetry is marked by sentiment, depths of feeling and stirrings of emotions. Heart-desires and soul-yearnings find expression in utterances as "everybody was asleep, nobody cared", "Who Do You Talk To Now That I'm Gone" and "Losing Things". Major to her work are the philosophical and social aspects of life and self-identification. Philosophical probing is characterized by expressions of "destiny", "fate", "soul", and "structured plan". Social concerns are expressed in "Lost in The City Of Nowhere", "Question", and "Dramatic Reading". "I Am I", "A Soul" and "Characterization" personify and spiritualize the poet.