Abstract
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Geocritical Explorations |
| Subtitle of host publication | Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies |
| Editors | Robert Tally |
| Place of Publication | United States |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 209-222 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780230337930 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780230120808, 9781349298884, 9781137471109 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
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- Posit
- Tated
- Devonian
- Topo
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Affective Mapping in Lyric Poetry. / Yeung, Heather.
Geocritical Explorations: Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies. ed. / Robert Tally. 1. ed. United States : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. p. 209-222.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
TY - CHAP
T1 - Affective Mapping in Lyric Poetry
AU - Yeung, Heather
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Like the naturalist, the cartographer, or the surveyor, the poet’s visual and aural engagement with a landscape seeks to map and determine spaces. However, the poet’s eye is endowed with a freedom to observe and record sensations in addition to those that make up the concrete landscape. The poet thus communicates with a freedom of affect that the geographer or naturalist cannot notate, bridging the gap between the ready-to-hand of the observer in the natural setting, and the present-at-hand of the geographer or naturalist’s detachedly observed phenomena or specimens. Through this freedom of vision and voice, the “I” (enunciating first person pronoun) and the “eye” (or angle of poetic vision) of the poem become necessarily interchangeable, producing a blurring between landscape and voice that the reader of the poem must subsequently negotiate, engaging affectively with the poem on a level different than that of its creator. Poetic voice and the space from which and about which enunciation occurs simultaneously demands and evades definition as the position of the first person pronoun and angle of vision shifts, and all too frequently the two major constituent elements of poetic experience—the poem read as stemming from an “I” (the implied speaker’s or a personal or psychological point of view) and the poem as stemming from an “eye” (the mimetic constructions of landscape, theme, and image in the space of the poem)—are separated in criticism to facilitate an apparently stable understanding of the text in question.
AB - Like the naturalist, the cartographer, or the surveyor, the poet’s visual and aural engagement with a landscape seeks to map and determine spaces. However, the poet’s eye is endowed with a freedom to observe and record sensations in addition to those that make up the concrete landscape. The poet thus communicates with a freedom of affect that the geographer or naturalist cannot notate, bridging the gap between the ready-to-hand of the observer in the natural setting, and the present-at-hand of the geographer or naturalist’s detachedly observed phenomena or specimens. Through this freedom of vision and voice, the “I” (enunciating first person pronoun) and the “eye” (or angle of poetic vision) of the poem become necessarily interchangeable, producing a blurring between landscape and voice that the reader of the poem must subsequently negotiate, engaging affectively with the poem on a level different than that of its creator. Poetic voice and the space from which and about which enunciation occurs simultaneously demands and evades definition as the position of the first person pronoun and angle of vision shifts, and all too frequently the two major constituent elements of poetic experience—the poem read as stemming from an “I” (the implied speaker’s or a personal or psychological point of view) and the poem as stemming from an “eye” (the mimetic constructions of landscape, theme, and image in the space of the poem)—are separated in criticism to facilitate an apparently stable understanding of the text in question.
KW - Catalysis
KW - Posit
KW - Tated
KW - Devonian
KW - Topo
U2 - 10.1057/9780230337930_14
DO - 10.1057/9780230337930_14
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9780230120808
SN - 9781349298884
SN - 9781137471109
SP - 209
EP - 222
BT - Geocritical Explorations
A2 - Tally, Robert
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - United States
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