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Reading Carol Ann Duffy’s “Politics” through unnatural ecopoetics

Carol Ann Duffy 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 af...

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Main Authors: Zainab Abdulkadhim Mhana,, Rosli Talif,, Zainor Izat Zainal,, Ikhlas Abdul Hadi,
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Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13975/1/26718-98549-1-PB.pdf
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spelling my-ukm.journal.139752020-01-23T01:18:24Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13975/ Reading Carol Ann Duffy’s “Politics” through unnatural ecopoetics Zainab Abdulkadhim Mhana, Rosli Talif, Zainor Izat Zainal, Ikhlas Abdul Hadi, Carol Ann Duffy 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. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13975/1/26718-98549-1-PB.pdf Zainab Abdulkadhim Mhana, and Rosli Talif, and Zainor Izat Zainal, and Ikhlas Abdul Hadi, (2019) Reading Carol Ann Duffy’s “Politics” through unnatural ecopoetics. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 25 (1). pp. 100-109. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1178
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description Carol Ann Duffy 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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author Zainab Abdulkadhim Mhana,
Rosli Talif,
Zainor Izat Zainal,
Ikhlas Abdul Hadi,
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Rosli Talif,
Zainor Izat Zainal,
Ikhlas Abdul Hadi,
Reading Carol Ann Duffy’s “Politics” through unnatural ecopoetics
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Rosli Talif,
Zainor Izat Zainal,
Ikhlas Abdul Hadi,
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