A mosaic patterning: space, time and the lyric essay

Learning to Write Through an Awareness of Breath

“…Spaciousness is generated as our gaze becomes magnified and held within this timeless moment. Robertson and Hetherington (2017) uses an analogy of a mosaic to illustrate how writing can expand our sense space and time, explaining how a mosaic is constructed of, “. .…”

“…a literary experience akin to dancing. The mosaic form demands backwards and sidewards movement, and movement across time, as well as the forward movement of more traditional prose forms” (Robertson & Hetherington, 2017, p. 43). Motion is not restricted, as poetic words move in multiple directions and embodies a variety of possible meanings.…”

“….” (p. 133). Robertson and Hetherington (2017) reflect on Mikhail Bakhtin’s term “chronotope” to highlight how time and space is experienced through the way it is perceived and represented. Time and space are generated by being able to see multiple possible states of being.…”

“…The mosaic-like structure of lyric and poetic writing makes time “slow or even stall” with the “gaps or holes” in time’s smooth flow (Robertson & Hetherington, 2017, p. 43). Words that do not follow a set structure exist in a, “truncated, condensed, sometimes fragmented and suggestive space” that allows for a state of “lyrical timelessness” (p. 39), and its multiplicity of meaning stretches out time (Bakhtin, 1981, p. 249).…”

“…Words that do not follow a set structure exist in a, “truncated, condensed, sometimes fragmented and suggestive space” that allows for a state of “lyrical timelessness” (p. 39), and its multiplicity of meaning stretches out time (Bakhtin, 1981, p. 249). Robertson and Hetherington (2017) depict such moments as a, “. .…”