“It ghosts”: Language as a Haunted Dwelling in Selected Poems by Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore
Journal Title: Kultura Popularna - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 55
Abstract
In Specters of Marx, Derrida argues that all writing is ghost-driven, for “everyone reads, acts, writes with his or her ghosts.” Modernist poetry can be described as particularly “spectral”, as it often locates itself on the threshold between the presentable and the unpresentable, between the body and the spirit, thus creating the right dwelling – or the right “body” – for the haunting traces, apparitions, and reapparitions of the past. Using Derrida’s concept of literature as the specter and Martin Heidegger’s notion of “poetical dwelling”, I shall examine selected poems by Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, and Marianne Moore as the spaces and bodies which are both haunted and haunting. To explain the nature of spectral language and modern hauntology, Derrida uses Marx’s formulation “Es spukt” [it ghosts], which, as I shall attempt to prove, aptly captures the uncanny apparitioning of metaphysical truths in the works of the above poets. Robert Frost’s “Ghost House”, Stevens’s “The Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician”, Marianne Moore’s “To a Chameleon”, among other poems, will serve me as instances of spectral poetics in which spiritual and epistemological doubts of the era assume quasi-transcendental forms and shapes, suspending the reader between the impossibility of truth and its revelation.<br/><br/>
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Paulina Ambroży
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