The construction of identity through the poetic process – autobiographic traits and historic rescue in Charles Simic’s poetry
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2012v23p87Keywords:
Simic, Humanistic geography, Historical rescue, IdentityAbstract
As an example of artistic manifestation, poetry in understood as a phenomenon of representation of the individual perception upon what is seen on the collective scope. The purpose of this paper is to analyze two poems by Charles Simic by the light of the contributions from humanistic geography, and show that what appears on the private sphere (place) is subjective, while what appears on the public sphere (space) is objective in the Yugoslavian poet’s poetry. Both spheres combined built a possible understanding of History. Simic’s poetry suggests an attempt to define the indefinable, an attempt to build an identity fragmented by the horrors of the Second World War.Downloads
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