By María López Penalva
Author Biography:
María López Penalva is a Spanish fourth year student at the University of Edinburgh. Her main area of interest is modern and contemporary poetry, within which she tends to focus on the presence of religion in an increasingly secular context, and the possibilities and limits that arise when mediating one’s identity through art.
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This essay explores the process through which a subject is sublimated into poetry in the work of Mark Doty and Elizabeth Bishop. This leads to an examination of the limits imposed by poetic texts, demonstrating the writers’ concern with the inevitable reduction which occurs as complex, three-dimensional beings are transfigured into a textual surface that can only provide the illusion of depth.
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