Étude de « On the Island » de Patrick MacDonogh
I study the poem for its intrinsic qualities and its relation with MacDonogh’s poetic arts and practices. It is a poem of discretion: repetition of this motif being aided by the arrangement of sounds and silences. A man facing a landscape is a frequently recurring theme in MacDonogh’s poems. Some as...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Presses universitaires de Rennes
2009-03-01
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| Series: | Revue LISA |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/lisa/97 |
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| Summary: | I study the poem for its intrinsic qualities and its relation with MacDonogh’s poetic arts and practices. It is a poem of discretion: repetition of this motif being aided by the arrangement of sounds and silences. A man facing a landscape is a frequently recurring theme in MacDonogh’s poems. Some aspects of this relationship are: an innocent vision; descriptive poetry, without elaborate symbolism; “wonder and delight”; a vision of experience; the ironies of the world; poetry of the open air, not of “the curtained room”: the time and place of the experience and of the enunciation tend to coincide, the mind relaxes and finds itself, silence turns into words, “sweet discipline” has given rise to the poem; towards metamorphosis: identification with surroundings, and anthropomorphic points of view, osmosis. A discreet calligram? |
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| ISSN: | 1762-6153 |