Poetry as a unit-idea in a few 21st century British poems

Proceedings of The 9th International Conference on New Findings in Humanities and Social Sciences

Year: 2023

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.33422/9th.hsconf.2023.07.140

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Poetry as a unit-idea in a few 21^st century British poems

Valentina-Monica Barba

ABSTRACT: 

This paper advances the thesis that, when viewed in its dynamic evolution and its variety of forms and types within the domain of literature, poetry is a “unit-idea”, and that poetry itself may be suffused with unit-ideas. The paper analyses the ideas and conceptions expressed in a few 21^st-century British poems, and reveals that the poems are suffused with the type of unit-ideas exemplified by Arthur Oncken Lovejoy in The Great Chain of Being.

keywords: “assumption of simplicity”; “metaphysical pathos”; “eternalistic pathos”; “pathos of the esoteric”; “flower-in-the-crannied-wall motive”