Pandemic Pastoral and Post-Pastoral Occasions in Poetry of the Covid-19 Crisis
Why does the pastoral aesthetic, as well its many contemporary, prefixed versions (anti-pastoral, dark pastoral, post pastoral, etc.), feature so prominently in poetry written on and during the Covid-19 crisis? Taking this question as a starting point to critical exploration, this article analyses h...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:angles_8215 https://doi.org/10.4000/12lxv urn:doi:10.4000/12lxv en https://journals.openedition.org/angles/8215 2024-11-03T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/12lxv https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Pandemic Pastoral and Post-Pastoral Occasions in Poetry of the Covid-19 Crisis Angles Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2274-2042 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/angles Montin, Sarah Poésie pastorale anti-pastorale post pastorale covid-1 9 poésie de circonstance écopoésie Clarke Gillian Duffy C.A. Szirtes George pastoral poetry anti-pastoral post pastoral covid-19 crisis topical poetry ecopoetry Clarke Gillian Duffy C.A. Szirtes George Why does the pastoral aesthetic, as well its many contemporary, prefixed versions (anti-pastoral, dark pastoral, post pastoral, etc.), feature so prominently in poetry written on and during the Covid-19 crisis? Taking this question as a starting point to critical exploration, this article analyses how the topical poetry written during the period of the first lockdown in Britain (March-June 2020) relied extensively on the classical literary convention to articulate the experience of the pandemic. Taking as corpus the poems featured in the “Write Where We Are Now” online anthology curated by Carol Ann Duffy in 2020, this paper analyses how using and subverting pastoral tropes and effects allowed poets to reflect upon one of the great catastrophes of the early 21th century, linking the trauma of mass death to contemporary questions on (eco)poetry and its relation to nature and the environment. Pourquoi l'esthétique de la pastorale, ainsi que ses nombreuses versions contemporaines (anti-pastoral, dark pastoral, post-pastoral, etc.), occupe-t-elle une place aussi importante dans la poésie écrite sur et pendant la crise du Covid-19 ? Partant de cette question, cet article étudie comment la poésie de circonstance écrite pendant la période du premier confinement au Royaume-Uni (mars-juin 2020) s'est appuyée sur la convention littéraire classique afin de formuler l’expérience de la pandémie. Prenant pour corpus les poèmes réunis dans l’anthologie en ligne "Write Where We Are Now" éditée par Carol Ann Duffy en 2020, cet article montre comment l'utilisation et la subversion des tropes de la pastorale classique a permis aux poètes d’écrire et de penser l'une des grandes catastrophes du début du 21e siècle, en reliant le traumatisme de la « mort de masse » aux questions écopoétiques contemporaines sur la poésie, la nature et l’environnement. |
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Why does the pastoral aesthetic, as well its many contemporary, prefixed versions (anti-pastoral, dark pastoral, post pastoral, etc.), feature so prominently in poetry written on and during the Covid-19 crisis? Taking this question as a starting point to critical exploration, this article analyses how the topical poetry written during the period of the first lockdown in Britain (March-June 2020) relied extensively on the classical literary convention to articulate the experience of the pandemic. Taking as corpus the poems featured in the “Write Where We Are Now” online anthology curated by Carol Ann Duffy in 2020, this paper analyses how using and subverting pastoral tropes and effects allowed poets to reflect upon one of the great catastrophes of the early 21th century, linking the trauma of mass death to contemporary questions on (eco)poetry and its relation to nature and the environment. |
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Montin, Sarah |
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Montin, Sarah |
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Pandemic Pastoral and Post-Pastoral Occasions in Poetry of the Covid-19 Crisis |
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Pandemic Pastoral and Post-Pastoral Occasions in Poetry of the Covid-19 Crisis |
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Pandemic Pastoral and Post-Pastoral Occasions in Poetry of the Covid-19 Crisis |
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Pandemic Pastoral and Post-Pastoral Occasions in Poetry of the Covid-19 Crisis |
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Pandemic Pastoral and Post-Pastoral Occasions in Poetry of the Covid-19 Crisis |
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