Poetry as SurvivalUniversity of Georgia Press, 1. 12. 2010 - 242 strán (strany) Intended for general readers and for students and scholars of poetry, Poetry as Survival is a complex and lucid analysis of the powerful role poetry can play in confronting, surviving, and transcending pain and suffering. Gregory Orr draws from a generous array of sources. He weaves discussions of work by Keats, Dickinson, and Whitman with quotes from three-thousand-year-old Egyptian poems, Inuit songs, and Japanese love poems to show that writing personal lyric has helped poets throughout history to process emotional and experiential turmoil, from individual stress to collective grief. More specifically, he considers how the acts of writing, reading, and listening to lyric bring ordering powers to the chaos that surrounds us. Moving into more contemporary work, Orr looks at the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Stanley Kunitz, and Theodore Roethke, poets who relied on their own work to get through painful psychological experiences. As a poet who has experienced considerable trauma--especially as a child--Orr refers to the damaging experiences of his past and to the role poetry played in his ability to recover and survive. His personal narrative makes all the more poignant and vivid Orr's claims for lyric poetry's power as a tool for healing. Poetry as Survival is a memorable and inspiring introduction to lyric poetry's capacity to help us find safety and comfort in a threatening world. |
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... emotional and spiritual lives. There is something special about poetry and about lyric poetry in particular, but it's not what most people think. It's not that poetry is written by very intelligent or very sensitive people and is ...
... emotionally complete and amusing—how easy it is for us to enter into the situation and the speaker's feelings. And ... emotions, thoughts, and memories. Introdurtion 3.
Gregory Orr. in the swiftly shifting world of emotions, thoughts, and memories. Even as we recognize the power of ... emotional being? One important answer to this question is the personal lyric, the "I" poem dramatizing inner and ...
... emotional life, begins with a passive receptivity, which is vividly expressed by the final lines of a poem by D. H. Lawrence: What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody wants to do us harm. N o ...
Gregory Orr. our emotions. Popular music of one kind or another is important to the subjective lives of most of us, but ... emotional responses to this experience; I won't rehearse them here. Two years after my brother's death, my mother ...
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Trauma and Transformation | 115 |
Sacred and Secular Lyric | 209 |
The Social Lyric and the Personal Lyric | 213 |
Incarnating Eros | 225 |
Index | 231 |