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Gilbert Walks in the World
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-6169-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
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Representation and Experience in Modern American Poetry
E-Book, Englisch, 302 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6169-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
In the twentieth century no form of experience has been more frequently taken up by poets eager to capture both the openness and fluidity of life and the aesthetic closure of an artwork than that of a walk. Examining the walk poem, Roger Gilbert contends that at its heart is the "desire to keep what we have lived." What is the appeal of the walk poem for modern American poets? According to Gilbert, it provides a ready-made frame within which to explore the full range of individual consciousness as it responds to and reflects on the world immediately at hand. The unstructured, plotless character of the walk allows poets to move freely from place to place, image to image, thought to thought. Suggesting that the walk poem strikes a compromise between the American obsession with process or movement and more traditionally mimetic concerns, Gilbert shows how it enables the poet to apprehend the world as horizon rather than landscape. Through perceptive and extended analyses of walk poems by Frost, Stevens, Williams, Roethke, Bishop, O'Hara, Snyder, Ammons, and Ashbery, he uncovers a spectrum of representational strategies for transforming passing experiences into the more lasting substance of poetry. Walks in the World addresses anyone who takes poetry seriously.
Originally published in 1991.
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Weitere Infos & Material
FrontMatter, pg. i
CONTENTS, pg. vii
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. ix
INTRODUCTION A Walk Is a Poem, A Poem Is a Walk, pg. 3
ONE. Robert Frost The Walk as Parable, pg. 49
TWO. Wallace Stevens: The Walk as Occasion, pg. 75
THREE. William Carlos Williams: The Walk as Music, pg. 107
FOUR. Theodore Roethke and Elizabeth Bishop: The Walk as Revelation, pg. 148
FIVE. Frank O'Hara and Gary Snyder: The Walk as Sample, pg. 173
SIX. A. R. Ammons and John Ashbery: The Walk as Thinking, pg. 209
CONCLUSION The Walk and the World, pg. 252
EPILOGUE. Some Further Walks, pg. 261
INDEX, pg. 287
