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A Separate Vision - Isolation in Contemporary Women's Poetry (Paperback)
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A Separate Vision - Isolation in Contemporary Women's Poetry (Paperback)
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The emergence of large numbers of women writers expressing a
deliberately female consciousness has marked one of the significant
directions of literature in this century. A central idea embraced
by these writers has been the particular isolation, or marginality,
felt by women. In A Separate Vision Deborah Pope focuses on four
representative poets - Louise Bogan, Maxine Kumin, Denise Levertov,
and Adrienne Rich - to explore the ways in which women writers'
treatment of isolation extends our perception of women's experience
and our understanding of the alienated human sensibility. In the
work of these poets, Pope identifies four distinct phases of
isolation, split-self, and validation. These phases represent a
progression from negation to affirmation, from a sense of
powerlessness and severe restriction to one of literal and
psychological freedom. She shows how the dynamics of this
progression have operated in each poet's development, with each
starting from the negative stance of victimization and moving, in
varying degrees, toward validation. But Pope also finds that in
each woman's work one phase of isolation is predominant. She sees
the tension and confessionalism in the poetry of Bogan, the
earliest of the four, as most representative of victimization.
Kumin's poems on her alienation from familial and social
experiences exemplify personalization. The split-self is manifested
most clearly in Levertov, whose work shows a woman torn between her
social female self and her inner artistic self. Rich, the most
committed feminist of this group, si also the strongest exemplar of
validation. Her recent poems are charged with personality and
power, and the isolation in her writing is the isolation of those
in the forefront of exploration and change. This progress toward a
positive sense of women's isolation is a significant movement in
contemporary poetry. With what Pope describes as their ""vigorous
revisioning of our patterns of human experience,"" women poets are
today showing us new ways of understanding and realizing human
dignity and worth.
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