Degree Year
2008
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
English
Advisor(s)
DeSales Harrison
Keywords
Robert Lowell, Poetry, Poems, Present
Abstract
In this essay I undertake to describe how the continuous present might persist on Lowell's page. I move from "Epilogue" first to a Heideggerian critic, Adam Kirsch, and then to Heidegger, whose theory of language establishes a space where the continuous present is always possible on the page. But here, where Heidegger says it should succeed, language proves insufficient for Lowell. Lowell exposes his own failure to shape his material using literary devices like journey and climax. His attempts to align his writing with visual media allow his specific literary failures to become sites of the successful preservation of a continuous present.
Repository Citation
Jones, Alena, "An Eelnet Made for the Eel Fighting: Layers of Obscurity and the Continuous Present in the Space of Robert Lowell's Poetry" (2008). Honors Papers. 436.
https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/honors/436
