Emptying and Filling: a(n) (Il)logical Poetic Representation of Emotions
“I am sick of cerebral emotions,” Lawrence complains in one of his Pansies poems:I am sick of people’s cerebral emotionsthat are born in their minds and forced down by the willon to their poor deranged bodies. (ll.1-3, CP 500)In this opening stanza, Lawrence’s “I,” marginally set against the mass o...
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| Publicado en: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/lawrence, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lenguaje: | Anglais |
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Études Lawrenciennes
2014
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| Acceso en línea: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumario: | “I am sick of cerebral emotions,” Lawrence complains in one of his Pansies poems:I am sick of people’s cerebral emotionsthat are born in their minds and forced down by the willon to their poor deranged bodies. (ll.1-3, CP 500)In this opening stanza, Lawrence’s “I,” marginally set against the mass of “people”—his contemporaries –, clearly asserts that modernity has crushed the accidental and physical nature of emotions. He comments on the hopeless immediate context, driven—according to him—by... |
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