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FINALITY AND PHENOMENOLOGY IN POETRY OF SEAMUS HEANEY
Željka Periša Perkov
; Osnovna škola „Jurja Dalmatinca“ u Šibeniku
Sažetak
Taking into consideration some negative criticism of Seamus Heaney’s poetry, primarily concerning the lack of the metaphysical as well as the absence of ˝universal meaning˝,˝true quotable statements about common experience and general concern˝ or ˝universal meaning˝ I came to a conclusion that the touch of phenomenology is more than evident. The deepest involvement of philosophy in Heaney’s poetry can be felt in his collections The Haw Lantern and Seeing Things. The Haw Lantern represents Heaney’s fi rst break into virtual
and he continues to explore it in Seeing Things. Heaney is turning to the invisible and virtual in order to reconcile the imaginary and the real. Seeing Things represent a turning point in Heaney’s writing. He is not concerned with the outer physicality of things. He becomes aware of the inner landscapes of the mind. The trace of metaphysical could be found
in Heaney’s isolation from the material reality by transcending into another dimension in ˝Field Vision˝, in his awareness of the emptied space in ˝Clearances˝ or his dealing with metaphysics of meaning in ˝Parable Island˝. On the other hand, what could be more the issue of our general concern then our prospective non-existence or non-being that Heane’s poetry is imbued with. The essential cause for such development of Heaney as a writer could be found in the phenomenon of fi nality. The realisation of fi nality often serves as an excellent ground for shifting the reality on two levels with an emphasis on the immaterial, spiritual or transcendental realm which brings us to the phenomenology resulting with a deeper philosophical dilemmas in Heaney’s poetry.
Ključne riječi
phenomenology; fi nality; material; immaterial; metaphysical
Hrčak ID:
131390
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Datum izdavanja:
23.12.2014.
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