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Exposing Bare Lives – Larkin’s Hospital Poems

This article looks at a selection of Philip Larkin’s poems which deal with the hospital or the notion of care and therefore all stage, more or less extensively, bare lives caught in liminal situations: either waiting to be taken care of by a nurse, wheeled in a corridor to a consultation, lying on a...

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Xuất bản năm:	URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ebc,
Tác giả chính:	Brault-Dreux, Elise
Định dạng:	Article ou chapitre numérique
Ngôn ngữ:	Anglais
Được phát hành:	Études britanniques contemporaines 2017
Những chủ đề:	poésie mort corps dépossession dénuement biopolitique hôpital Larkin optimisation régularisation poetry death body dispossession Bareness biopolitics hospital regimentation
Truy cập trực tuyến:	Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM

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spelling	openedition-oai:revues.org:ebc_3789 https://doi.org/10.4000/ebc.3789 urn:doi:10.4000/ebc.3789 en https://journals.openedition.org/ebc/3789 2017-12-04T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/fe6o https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Exposing Bare Lives – Larkin’s Hospital Poems Études britanniques contemporaines Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2271-5444 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1168-4917 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ebc Brault-Dreux, Elise poésie mort corps dépossession dénuement biopolitique hôpital Larkin optimisation régularisation poetry death body dispossession Bareness biopolitics hospital Larkin optimisation regimentation This article looks at a selection of Philip Larkin’s poems which deal with the hospital or the notion of care and therefore all stage, more or less extensively, bare lives caught in liminal situations: either waiting to be taken care of by a nurse, wheeled in a corridor to a consultation, lying on a hospital bed, or stowed into an ambulance. This article first tries to show how these anonymous bare lives exposed in public spaces are constantly escaping the reader’s eye, as though such poetic technic were conveying the dispossession experienced by these bare lives, covered by hospital cloths and, quite significantly, sometimes merely passing. A reading of these poems through the angle of biopolitics, as Larkin actually subtly stages the institutional regulation of bare lives in such public places, shows how therapeutic time and space turn out to partake of a wide regimented system in which individual identities are at bay. The end of the article tries to show how Larkin’s somewhat bare style in fact seeks to suggest that biopolitics, extreme regulation, even medicine or religion, will in fact be powerless when it comes to counteract the experience of death. His bare, common, poetic stance then suggests each human being’s unescapable, common bareness. Cet article analyse quelques poèmes de Philip Larkin qui, plus ou moins furtivement, mettent en scène l’hôpital et abordent la question du soin. Des vies nues y sont prises dans des zones liminales : assises dans une salle d’attente avant une consultation, sur un fauteuil roulant dans un couloir, allongées dans un lit d’hôpital, ou transportées dans une ambulance. Cet article tente d’abord de montrer comment ces vies dénudées, anonymes, exhibées (sans outrance toutefois) dans des espaces publics, échappent constamment à l’œil du lecteur, traduisant ainsi poétiquement la dépossession vécue par ces vies nues, recouvertes d’un drap hospitalier et ne faisant, parfois, que passer. Les poèmes qui, sous divers modes, suggèrent une forme de régularisation des vies nues dans des lieux publics, sont ensuite envisagés par un biais biopolitique. Le temps et l’espace thérapeutiques semblent donc participer d’un vaste système régulé dans lequel ils sont optimisés. Le propos se concentre enfin sur le style assez dénudé de la poésie de Larkin par lequel il suggère que la biopolitique, la régularisation, même la médecine et la religion, seront finalement impuissants pour contrer la finitude d’une vie. La posture poétique de Larkin, à la fois commune et dénudée, suggèrerait alors le dénuement intrinsèque à chaque individu mortel.
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topic	poésie mort corps dépossession dénuement biopolitique hôpital Larkin optimisation régularisation poetry death body dispossession Bareness biopolitics hospital Larkin optimisation regimentation
spellingShingle	poésie mort corps dépossession dénuement biopolitique hôpital Larkin optimisation régularisation poetry death body dispossession Bareness biopolitics hospital Larkin optimisation regimentation Brault-Dreux, Elise Exposing Bare Lives – Larkin’s Hospital Poems
description	This article looks at a selection of Philip Larkin’s poems which deal with the hospital or the notion of care and therefore all stage, more or less extensively, bare lives caught in liminal situations: either waiting to be taken care of by a nurse, wheeled in a corridor to a consultation, lying on a hospital bed, or stowed into an ambulance. This article first tries to show how these anonymous bare lives exposed in public spaces are constantly escaping the reader’s eye, as though such poetic technic were conveying the dispossession experienced by these bare lives, covered by hospital cloths and, quite significantly, sometimes merely passing. A reading of these poems through the angle of biopolitics, as Larkin actually subtly stages the institutional regulation of bare lives in such public places, shows how therapeutic time and space turn out to partake of a wide regimented system in which individual identities are at bay. The end of the article tries to show how Larkin’s somewhat bare style in fact seeks to suggest that biopolitics, extreme regulation, even medicine or religion, will in fact be powerless when it comes to counteract the experience of death. His bare, common, poetic stance then suggests each human being’s unescapable, common bareness.
author	Brault-Dreux, Elise
author_facet	Brault-Dreux, Elise
author_sort	Brault-Dreux, Elise
title	Exposing Bare Lives – Larkin’s Hospital Poems
title_short	Exposing Bare Lives – Larkin’s Hospital Poems
title_full	Exposing Bare Lives – Larkin’s Hospital Poems
title_fullStr	Exposing Bare Lives – Larkin’s Hospital Poems
title_full_unstemmed	Exposing Bare Lives – Larkin’s Hospital Poems
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publisher	Études britanniques contemporaines
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