W. H. Auden: The Poet and the Sea: The Sea and the Mirror
The endeavour of modernist authors to ‘make it new’ involved a significant revision of the use of imagery. This paper focuses on W. H. Auden and the ways in which he used the image of the sea. It shows that the contours of the poet’s symbolic landscape changed in parallel with his dynamic ideologic...
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The endeavour of modernist authors to ‘make it new’ involved a significant revision of the use of imagery. This paper focuses on W. H. Auden and the ways in which he used the image of the sea. It shows that the contours of the poet’s symbolic landscape changed in parallel with his dynamic ideological development. As a whole, the paper argues that there is a discernible relationship between the two phenomena, which, however, remains to be defined by scholarship.
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| spelling | doaj.art-00602f83218544bd9489c5999a2b5b812023-05-06T14:00:56ZengUniversity of PardubiceAmerican and British Studies Annual1803-60582788-22332008-12-011W. H. Auden: The Poet and the Sea: The Sea and the MirrorLadislav Vít0University of Pardubice The endeavour of modernist authors to ‘make it new’ involved a significant revision of the use of imagery. This paper focuses on W. H. Auden and the ways in which he used the image of the sea. It shows that the contours of the poet’s symbolic landscape changed in parallel with his dynamic ideological development. As a whole, the paper argues that there is a discernible relationship between the two phenomena, which, however, remains to be defined by scholarship. https://absa.upce.cz/index.php/absa/article/view/2139Poetics of Placethe sealiterary topographyimagerymodernismW. H. Auden |
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| title | W. H. Auden: The Poet and the Sea: The Sea and the Mirror |
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| topic | Poetics of Place the sea literary topography imagery modernism W. H. Auden |
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