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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 inThe Bees (2011), her first collection published a...

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Main Authors: Abdul Kidhim Mhana, Zainab, Talif, Rosli, Zainal, Zainor Izat, Abdul Hadi, Ikhlas
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Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Press 2019
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/81936/1/Reading%20Carol%20Ann%20Duffy%E2%80%99s%20politics%20through%20unnatural%20ecopoetics%20.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.819362021-09-08T00:33:43Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/81936/ Reading Carol Ann Duffy’s politics through unnatural ecopoetics Abdul Kidhim Mhana, Zainab Talif, Rosli Zainal, Zainor Izat Abdul Hadi, Ikhlas 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 inThe 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. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Press 2019-01 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/81936/1/Reading%20Carol%20Ann%20Duffy%E2%80%99s%20politics%20through%20unnatural%20ecopoetics%20.pdf Abdul Kidhim Mhana, Zainab and Talif, Rosli and Zainal, Zainor Izat and Abdul Hadi, Ikhlas (2019) Reading Carol Ann Duffy’s politics through unnatural ecopoetics. 3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature, 25 (1). pp. 100-109. ISSN 0128-5157; ESSN: 2550-2247 https://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/article/view/26718 10.17576/3L-2019-2501-07
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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 inThe 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 Abdul Kidhim Mhana, Zainab
Talif, Rosli
Zainal, Zainor Izat
Abdul Hadi, Ikhlas
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Talif, Rosli
Zainal, Zainor Izat
Abdul Hadi, Ikhlas
Reading Carol Ann Duffy’s politics through unnatural ecopoetics
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Talif, Rosli
Zainal, Zainor Izat
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