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Shamanic Elements in the Poetry of Ted Hughes - Head Work
by Author(s): Ewa Panecka
Description
Shamanism is not a religion, but a technique of achieving ecstasy through chanting, the beating of a drum and the shaking of a rattle, all with the aim of communing with the spirits and rescue afflicted souls.
If poetry is a healing substance, poets are shamans of words, who journey into the magic land of art in order to bring the energy and imagery of dreams into physical reality. Shamans, the poets of consciousness, can heal the soul and thus lead the reader to spiritual rebirth and moral regeneration.
The book interprets the poetry of Ted Hughes as a product of shamanic performance, the work of a mystic and a healer – the Poet Laureate who claimed that England had lost her soul which he proposed to retrieve through veneration of the Gravesian White Goddess, the embodiment of Nature.
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Author Biography
Ewa Panecka is Lecturer in Literature and Head of the English Department at Podhalańska Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa, Poland. She is the author of Literature and the Monarchy: The Traditional and the Modern Concept of the Office of the Poet Laureate in England (2014). She has published widely on religious experience in modern poetry, including, most recently, Imago Dei in Geoffrey Hill’s Lachrimae and Tenebrae, and Human Condition in Dylan Thomas’s Altarwise by Owl-light. She has also contributed to a volume of essays on the history of English literature. Her research interests lie in poetry as a spiritual quest.
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