The distinctive features of Loise Glück's poetry

Анісімова, Людмила Вікторівна (2025) The distinctive features of Loise Glück's poetry Закарпатські філологічні студії (39 (1)). pp. 201-206. ISSN 2663-4880, 2663-4899

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Abstract

The article deals with the distinctive features of the poetic works of the renowned American poet Louise Elisabeth Glück (1943−2023), who became a Nobel Prize laureate in literature in 2020 for her «unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal». The aim of the research was to determine the specific distinctive features of Glück’s poetry, in particular, to define the ways in which the individual existence attains universal significance in her works. The object of the research was poetry collections from Firstborn (1968) to Winter Recipes from the Collective (2021). To deepen understanding of the process of her poetic writing, her reflections on the purpose and function of poetry, and the author’s intentions, the prose texts from Proofs & Theories: essays on poetry (1994) та American Originality (2017) were studied. First and foremost, the use of autobiographical elements in Glück’s poetry was analyzed, with an emphasis on the confessional nature of her poems. To achieve the aim, several tasks were accomplished: four periods of her creative work were outlined, and general characteristics of her poetry collections were identified; the place of her poetic works in the context of the development of Anglo-American ‘confessional poetry’ (R. Lowell, W. D. Snodgrass, A. Sexton, S. Plath) was determined; autobiographical elements and the influence of traumatic experiences on her poetry were identified; the distinctive features of poetry (themes, key issues, central images, and motifs) were defined; the expression of the dichotomy between the individual and the universal in the poems was analyzed. Louise Glück’s poetry is recognized for its autobiographical elements, as well as for her use of the creative process as a form of psychotherapy to overcome past traumatic experiences. Overall, Glück’s lyric poetry is characterized by a meditative narrative style and analytical depth, presenting universal laws of existence through the lens of personal life experience

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	contemporary American poetry; Louise Glück’s poetry; traumatic experience; periodization; stylistic and thematic features; autobiographical elements; «confessional poetry»; prose poems; dichotomy of the individual and the universal
Subjects:	Статті у базах даних > Index Copernicus Статті у періодичних виданнях > Фахові (входять до переліку фахових, затверджений МОН)
Divisions:	Факультет української філології, культури і мистецтва > Кафедра світової літератури
Depositing User:	Людмила Вікторівна Анісімова
Date Deposited:	17 Jun 2025 08:15
Last Modified:	17 Jun 2025 08:15
URI:	https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/52057

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