“Soul Song, and Formal Necessity”: A Reading of “A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford” by Derek Mahon
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2003.
Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : Time and History figure as constant preoccupations in Derek Mahon’s poetry. They appear as the central theme of the much celebrated poem “A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford.” The study of a few different contradictory linguistic markers in this poem will try to show that choices made within the system of the language converge to establish a kind of formal necessity articulating form and content. The poem can be read as a crucial step in Mahon’s poetic itinerary in so far as it reveals the poet’s hesitant stance and aesthetically attempts to link distant times and places and language in a complex and exacting process of writing, rewriting and translating.
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Time and History figure as constant preoccupations in Derek Mahon’s poetry. They appear as the central theme of the much celebrated poem “A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford.” The study of a few different contradictory linguistic markers in this poem will try to show that choices made within the system of the language converge to establish a kind of formal necessity articulating form and content. The poem can be read as a crucial step in Mahon’s poetic itinerary in so far as it reveals the poet’s hesitant stance and aesthetically attempts to link distant times and places and language in a complex and exacting process of writing, rewriting and translating.
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