Reading Carol Ann Duffy’s “Politics” through Unnatural Ecopoetics

Mhana, Zainab Abdulkadhim; Talif, Rosli; Zainal, Zainor Izat; Hadi, Ikhlas Abdul

doi:10.17576/3l-2019-2501-07

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“…This method assists readers in becoming active learners and developing their creative and critical abilities as well as giving them the confidence to become independent readers. The material environment around Carol Ann Duffy is entangled with her nonmaterial surroundings in "Politics," according to Mhana, Z. A. et al (2019) reading of Carol Ann Duffy's "Politics" through Unnatural Ecopoetics.…”

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Poetry of the Chito S. Roño Literary Awards: A New Criticism Reading and Translation

Velarde¹,

Purcia²,

Makiling³

2023

Am. J. Multidis. Res. Innov.

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The present paper translates the poem selected from Waray into English of the Chito S. Roño Literary Awards, and applies New Criticism in the textual analysis. It focuses on the translator’s role as a linguistic and cultural interpreter in faithfully rendering the nuances of the literary text from Waray to English. Before developing a strategy for translating the source text into the target language, translators understand the relationship between the source language and culture. The translation of culturally specific items is central to the current study. Strategies are based on Newmark’s semantic translation, Koller’s formal expressive equivalence, Reiss’ text types, and Vinay and Darbelnet’s Model giving a domesticated or foreignized effect on the product of translation. In addition to transferring meaning, the text’s cultural identity is emphasized as a pillar of the translation process. The collection of poetry talks about the universal themes of love and relationships, the essence of family life, life’s journey and the dynamics of society while the images and objective correlatives effectively represent human conditions. Symbolisms and central metaphors reflect the values and human experiences of individuals. The poems do not have set rhymes and meter but are well-written in subtle, metaphorical lines, mirror life, and celebrate the Waray language, reveal the Waray sensibilities, and reflect the Waray ideals and values which are also universal ideals and values proving that the Waray language and culture are not inferior to the rest of the world.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Poetry of the Chito S. Roño Literary Awards: A New Criticism Reading and Translation

Velarde¹,

Purcia²,

Makiling³

2023

Am. J. Multidis. Res. Innov.

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“…The poetry of Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Wilbur, and Wallace Stevens has been used as examples of Knickerbocker's idea of using metaphor and other literary devices to indicate the relationship between humans and nature in modern American poetry. Knickerbocker (2012) provided the readers of his book, with a broad explanation of the meaning of ecopoetics poems. Actually, many scholars before him tried to provide an accurate meaning or explanation of ecopoetics, Knickerbocker more properly clarified ecopoetics concepts through his introduction in the book and analysis of poems, he clarified ecopoetics in a proper way.…”

Section: Ecopoetics Theorymentioning

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Reading Carol Ann Duffy’s “Politics” through Unnatural Ecopoetics

Mhana

Talif

Zainal

et al. 2019

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is one of the most notable poets in contemporary English poetry. In accordance with her poetic dexterity, she was appointed as Great Britain's Poet Laureate in 2009. This study deals with Duffy's "Politics," which was introduced in The Bees (2011), her first collection published after having been named Poet Laureate. In this poem, the poet tackled natural and unnatural imagery resultant from diverse experiences. This study proposes that the material environment surrounding Carol Ann Duffy is intertwined with her nonmaterial environment in "Politics." This argument runs parallel with the concept of unnatural ecopoetics, which is considered to be a new direction in ecopoetics in examining contemporary poetry. The current study argues that the poet's ideology after becoming poet laureate and also her experience as a Scottish, feminist, bisexual poet have all together configured a kind of nonmaterial environment intertwined with the material world or nature in the textual space through "Politics". This assumption is not far from Sarah Nolan's concept of Unnatural Ecopoetics in her book Unnatural Ecopoetics: Unlikely Spaces of Contemporary Poetry (2017). So, this study is conducted in the light of Nolan's concept, which denotes the relations between the human, natural, and unnatural environments and the language in the poetic text. Accordingly, more focus will be on the poet's experiences, memories, ideology, and feelings which inspired her to symbolize nature in another dimension in "Politics" as an unnatural ecopoetics poem.

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Examining Duffy’s Textual Space in “Water” and “Cold” through the Unnatural Ecopoetics Concept

Mhana¹,

Talif²,

Zainal³

et al. 2020

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Unnatural ecopoetics presents new directions for poetry scholars. It is a theoretical lens that studies how texts use self-reflexive language and formal experimentation to create a textual space where material and nonmaterial environmental elements are uncovered. The term material stands for all physical objects and places, whether man-made or occurring naturally in the world. Nonmaterial, on the other hand, refers to the invisible emotional, historical, political, and personal elements that influence the speaker’s experience of space and the translation of it to the textual space of a poem. Post-modernist poet Carol Ann Duffy has played a pivotal role in contemporary English poetry. While many studies have dealt with her poetry, few have examined Duffy’s poetry in light of the unnatural ecopoetics concept. In this paper, the reader is invited to read within the textual space of Duffy’s “Water” and “Cold” (2011) through the lens of unnatural ecopoetics. This article argues that Duffy’s experience and memories of her mother’s last days configured nonmaterial elements fused with material elements of her environment. The findings of this study provide a new way of analysing contemporary poetry through ecopoetics reading by delving into literary texts and examining all the environmental elements and situations around a persona in a poem or the poet.

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Reading Carol Ann Duffy’s “Politics” through Unnatural Ecopoetics

Cited by 3 publications

References 8 publications

Poetry of the Chito S. Roño Literary Awards: A New Criticism Reading and Translation

Poetry of the Chito S. Roño Literary Awards: A New Criticism Reading and Translation

Reading Carol Ann Duffy’s “Politics” through Unnatural Ecopoetics

Examining Duffy’s Textual Space in “Water” and “Cold” through the Unnatural Ecopoetics Concept

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