The Pastoral in Robert Frost's Poetry

ISBN-13: 9783838362625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 136 str.

Manel Msalmi

Opis

The book deals with the pastoral convention which emerged with many authors like Theocritus, Virgil, Shakespeare, wordsworth and last but not least Frost.This convention investigates the relationship between man and nature and the question of mans place in nature and in the universe in general.The pastoral remains a celebration of beauty and innocence of the shepherds mode of living.The objective of this book is to identify the pastoral features in Frosts poems. The themes that Frost evokes in his text revolve around the relationship between humanity and nature,human loneliness and isolation.Equally important, Frosts poetic techniques are worth studying. Being two sides of the same coin,the pastoral tradition and the ecocritical theory are the main issues of this work. The book presents the idea of nature from an ecocritical perspective with a focus on the relationship between literature and the natural environment. This book can be classified as a reference in pastoral studies, ecocriticism and The analysis of Frosts poetry and techniques.

O autorze

Manel Msalmi is a PHD student in English literature at the University of Liège in Belgium. Her field of study is Ecocriticism and Pastoralism applied on American poetry. She got her Masters degree in English literature. Now,she is working on her PHD dissertation using the Ecocritical theory applied on the poetry of Joy Harjo and Gary Snyder.