Animals in James Clarence Mangan's poetry (1838-1844)
The 4th International Social Research and Behavioral Sciences Symposium, Antalya, Turkey, 19 - 21 October 2019, vol.1, no.1, pp.267-272, (Full Text)
- Publication Type: Conference Paper / Full Text
- Volume: 1
- City: Antalya
- Country: Turkey
- Page Numbers: pp.267-272
- Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection
- Akdeniz University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
The Irish poet James Clarence Mangan’s poems differ from the works of his contemporaries for many reasons like the way he uses his subjective material in his poetry or the way he treats the East or the non-West. He seems to offer a different vantage point to view the reality and his treatment of animals is a case in point. In his poems, the ways he employs images or metaphors (or extended metaphors) about animals are characterised by his interest in the nonWest as his animals appear with their Oriental connotations as in the example of the nightingale. While it is a bird associating sadness and death, or art coming out of suffering in Western literature, it is affiliated with the opposite qualities in his poetry. This paper will explore the ways Mangan departs from his contemporaries in his treatment of animals referring to specific poems.