Archibald Lampman's "Nature" poetry as reflecting the (im)possibility of construing Canadian identity
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Abstract
The aim of this paper is to show on the example of Archibald Lampman and William Wordsworth how the two literary traditions intersperse and diverge on the ultimate Romantic subject -Nature.Descriptions of nature in the poems of Lampman and Wordsworth are oft en interior landscapes or "maps of a state of mind" (Atwood) important for defi ning one's identity.In Wordsworth's poetry man's identity is built and re-built on the basis of his close contact with Nature that soothes him and provides comfort for the years to come.On the other hand, Lampman's poetry speaks about the diffi culty of coming to terms with Nature, of taming the unpredictable, cruel and oft en meaningless landscape.There exists in Lampman's poetry an attempt to reconcile with Mother-Nature and seek guidance from it, a prominent Wordsworthian trait which is juxtaposed to the feeling of being swallowed up by Nature's unconscious cruelty and bareness.The instability of the Canadian concept of «identity» and the inability to defi ne what it really is might be the result of this double-sided view of Nature.Résumé Le but de ce travail est de montrer, à travers l'exemple d'Archibald Lampman et William Wordsworth, comment deux traditions littéraires se croisent et divergent au sujet du plus important concept romantique, la nature.Les descriptions de la nature dans la poésie d'Archiblad Lampman et William Wordsworth sont souvent des paysages intérieurs ou des « cartes de l'état de conscience » (Atwood) essentiels à la défi nition de l'identité de chacun.Dans la poésie de Wordsworth, l'identité de l'homme se construit et se reconstruit sur les bases de son contact intime avec la nature qui l'apaise et lui fournit la consolation pour les années à venir.Quant à la poésie de Lampman, elle parle des diffi cultés à essayer de comprendre la nature, à dompter le paysage imprévisible, impitoyable et souvent dénué de sens.Il existe chez Lampman une tentative de se réconcilier avec la Mère-Nature et d'être guidé par elle, trait wordsworthien majeur, et parallèlement le sentiment d'engloutissement par l'inconsciente cruauté et le dépouillement de la Nature.L'instabilité du concept de l' « identité canadienne » et l'incapacité de la défi nir peuvent être le résultat de ce double rapport à la Nature.Using a number of representative poems of Wordsworth and Lampman this paper will purport to prove that it is in their similarities where these two poets assert their individuality most vigorously.It will show that Lampman adapted and modifi ed romanticism to express his own time and place.A borrowed European concept serves wonderfully to prove that Lampman is not a pale imitation of Wordsworth, but a poet portraying Canada's national distinctiveness.
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| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.035 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
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