Exodus or Exile: The Trope of “more life” in Louise Glück’s Poetry

vWhat is life in poetry? One concept that is trying to answer this questions is a psy-cho-theological, messianic and vitalist category of “more life,” elaborated by the Polishscholar Agata Bielik-Robson on the basis of Harold Bloom’s theory of poetic incarnation.Bloom’s writings constitute a link be...

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Published in:	Er(r)go (Katowice) Vol. 2; no. 45; pp. 127 - 146
Main Author:	Bartczak, Kacper
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	University of Silesia Press 2022 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Subjects:	Language and Literature Studies vitalism in American poetry Agata BielikRobson Louise Glück Harold Bloom
ISSN:	1508-6305, 2544-3186
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Summary:	vWhat is life in poetry? One concept that is trying to answer this questions is a psy-cho-theological, messianic and vitalist category of “more life,” elaborated by the Polishscholar Agata Bielik-Robson on the basis of Harold Bloom’s theory of poetic incarnation.Bloom’s writings constitute a link between the Jewishmessianic vitalism and the vitalistline of American poetry, in which I place Glück. An antithetical position of subjectivityagainst the orders of experience governed by law and necessity (nature and death), “morelife” positions the poetic psyche in a precarious position as an excessive entity in-betweenthem. The article examines a trajectory of the positions that Glück ’s poetic subjects takein relation to those orders in the context of the messianic promise of “more life.”
ISSN:	1508-6305 2544-3186
DOI:	10.31261/errgo.13127