The Ground of Our Beseeching: Metaphor and the Poetics of MeditationSusquehanna University Press, 2004 - Всего страниц: 391 This book describes the signature styles of meditation in three American poets, and shows how each generated language out of spiritual yearning. Beginning with a survey of twentieth-century thinking on metaphor, the study concentrates on hermeneutical theories of figurative language as forged by continental philosophers Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur, and Gaston Bachelard. It arrives at a view of metaphor as an analogue of faith, and traces the development of metaphorical practice in the later, meditative sequences of Eliot, Stevens, and Roethke. The book also explores the ways in which both the lengthening poetic structures and the transcendent desires of each poet determine the kind of metaphor that arises, and also the way in which metaphor itself is able to transport each poet to a hitherto unreachable expression of faith, whether in an identifiable deity, as was Eliot's case, or in a more maverick apprehension of the transcendent, as in Stevens and Roethke. Metaphor comes to embody the qualities of possibility, confidence, and expectation usually manifested in orthodox expressions of religious faith. Peter Sharpe is Professor of English at Wagner College. |
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... call ; though a poet of the spirit , he was totally free of spiritual agenda , unless we care to extract one from the backhanded gesture that " poetry created the idea of God , " spo- ken , typically , as though all had given tacit ...
... call ; though a poet of the spirit , he was totally free of spiritual agenda , unless we care to extract one from the backhanded gesture that " poetry created the idea of God , " spo- ken , typically , as though all had given tacit ...
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... call the forms of personal ultimacy , how- ever dispersed or regressing these authenticities are becoming in our private selves and public lives . As Stevens insisted , " the import of poetry is the import of the spirit . The figures of ...
... call the forms of personal ultimacy , how- ever dispersed or regressing these authenticities are becoming in our private selves and public lives . As Stevens insisted , " the import of poetry is the import of the spirit . The figures of ...
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... call " the import of the spirit . " The purpose here then shall be to articulate and assess " the ground of our beseeching " in a god - bereft world — to explore how , firstly , certain representative poets , without recourse to re ...
... call " the import of the spirit . " The purpose here then shall be to articulate and assess " the ground of our beseeching " in a god - bereft world — to explore how , firstly , certain representative poets , without recourse to re ...
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... calls the " moving , incalculable center " of modernity . I am particularly in- terested in the use of metaphor in this respect by Roethke and those of his ilk who have followed : I see it as the locus of spiritual energy and figuration ...
... calls the " moving , incalculable center " of modernity . I am particularly in- terested in the use of metaphor in this respect by Roethke and those of his ilk who have followed : I see it as the locus of spiritual energy and figuration ...
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... calls the " ultra - marginal life . " 33 Such incur- sions , far from cutting us off from the intentional , social , or moral purpose of literature , have the beneficent effect of expanding " the hot place in a man's consciousness ...
... calls the " ultra - marginal life . " 33 Such incur- sions , far from cutting us off from the intentional , social , or moral purpose of literature , have the beneficent effect of expanding " the hot place in a man's consciousness ...
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