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- Title
"Sinkership" and "Eye-Crossing": Apprehensive in the American Landscape.
- Authors
Clark, Gregory
- Abstract
This essay interprets two long Burke poems from the late 1960's, testing the value of accessing Burke's thought through his poetry rather than his theoretical writing. These poems articulate Burke's apprehension, while spending time in the West (Sinkership) and in New York (Eye 'Crossing'), about technology's effects on nature and human relations. But poetry, unlike theory, enables readers to share this apprehension at an attitudinal level that encompasses all levels of identity. Through these poems, readers can become consubstantial with Burke, and in this new consubstantiality they take a step, however small, from apprehension to hope.
- Subjects
UNITED States; POETRY (Literary form); LITERATURE; LANDSCAPES; SENSORY perception
- Publication
KB Journal, 2006, Vol 2, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1930-0026
- Publication type
Essay