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Poetry and Islands: Materiality and the Creative Imagination

Poetry and Islands: Materiality and the Creative Imagination

Patke, Rajeev S.

Hardcover

Series: Rethinking the Island

Poetry CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1783484101
ISBN13: 9781783484102
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Mar 6 2018
Pages: 196
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

In all cultures and times, the poetic imagination has fed on the natural attributes of islands. An island is either a destination, or a home, or a place of exile and imprisonment, or simply a place to sojourn. It is an ideal vehicle for journeys treated as allegories, or for acts of finding that turn into acts of losing, or the reverse transformation. An island is not a continent; yet it can be an archipelago. An island is both a place in itself and a pretext for imaginings that need a local habitation and a name. It can give relief, and pleasure; or it can frustrate, isolate, and negate. Above all, it both invites and resists - or contains or constrains - the imagination.

Poetry and Islands explores how islands become repositories of human longings and desires, a locus for some of our deepest fears and fantasies. It balances historical and geographical reference with a selective approach to poems and poets in English, and in translations into English. The study of particular poems in which islands figure in exemplary ways is balanced by a more detailed discussion of the poets who have played a major role in shaping human responses to islands on a global scale.

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