“This bitter power of song”: Hilda Doolittle, Grecian Masks and Poetic Creativity in Women

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“This bitter power of song”: Hilda Doolittle, Grecian Masks and Poetic Creativity in Women

Yazarlar:

Seçil SARAÇLI

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 1999 Issue 9, pp.53-59

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/1999

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000735236

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İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606

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Hilda Doolittle  1886-1961 , a.k.a. H.D., remembered today alongside women  poets contemporaneous with her such as Louise Bogan, Elenor Wyle, Edna  St.Vincent Millay, and Mariannne Moore, first made a name for herself through her  affiliation with the imagist and vorticist schools of modern poetry. Although she  remained loyal to these technical innovations throughout her poetic career, her later  poetry reflects the consciousness of being a woman aware of her creative talents,  while revealing a woman poet having acquired a language of her own. A salient  feature of her poetry is her use of mythical characters and incidents, which she  initially implemented to mask her being an apprentice artist trying to emulate male  poets by adhering to their “impersonal line” of poetic understanding. These Grecian  elements later became instruments in masking her heightened consciousness. This  article surveys her trajectory from diligently following her male “masters” to the  writing of her posthumously published Helen in Egypt  1961  in which she has  found her own voice, freed of the influence of male discourse as well as of her own  anxieties concerning her creativity.

Makale detayları

“This bitter power of song”: Hilda Doolittle, Grecian Masks and Poetic Creativity in Women

Yazarlar: Seçil SARAÇLI

Yayıncı: American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi: Journal of American Studies of Turkey 1999 Issue 9, pp.53-59

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 3/1999

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000735236

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

pISSN: 1300-6606

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Yazarlar:

Seçil SARAÇLI

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 1999 Issue 9, pp.53-59

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/1999

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000735236

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606