woah!
firstly i did not mean to attack anyone on this list.
my original post on this was friendly and appreciative of the help people
have given me already on the spaciality of poetry.
i am trying to look at poetry as a whole, with particular reference to
australian poetry.
one thing i observe is the persistence of rural imagery in modern poetry
when 95% of us live in the cities.
if we are writers we consrtruct texts, they are not just inspired
outpourings of authorial genius.
why do we continue to use imagery which is not part of our everyday
experience?
why is so much australian poetry which appears in international anthologies
tied to rural landscape?
is it the misguided tokenistic anthologists who don't really know what
australian poetry is and so choose poetry they believe represents the land,
australia? , or is it that there is so much rural landscape in australian
poetry that people believe this is what constitutes australian poetry?
if i am right about my observations so far, that there is an overabundance
of rural imagery in oz poetry, then i ask why?
is it a need to establish that we, white australians who have appropriated
this country, actually belong here, so we try to write ourselves into the
landscape. and this may not be conscious in individual writers but
underlying in all of us who have come to live in australia and are not
indiginous?
or is it that australian writers are aware of the global trends in literary
theory but sub-consciously perhaps, retain the rural image as that which
makes their poetry australian?(maybe this is what i meant as romantic)
or is it that there is so much rural landscape around us we can't help but
include it in our work?
i am trying to understand.
perhaps my original premise is incorrect, perhaps there isn't an abundance
of rural landscape in australian poetry.
komninos
komninos's cyberpoetry site http://student.uq.edu.au/~s271502
cyberpoet@slv site http://www.experimedia.vic.gov.au/cyberpoet/
komninos zervos, tel. +61 7 5552 8872
lecturer in cyberStudies,
school of arts,
gold coast campus,
griffith university,
pmb 50, gold coast mail centre
queensland, 9726
australia.
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