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Twelve Clocks.

机译：十二个时钟。

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This poem explores the connection drawn in epic tradition between poetry and time. In the classical understanding of heroism, men accept early death in exchange for poetic immortality. The poem seeks to explore sacrifices and losses borne by other, less conventionally celebrated members of living communities: women, children, and non-human life. Even as the poem rejects poetic celebration of early death, it refigures epic understandings of such premature loss in the context of current ecological crises, including the Earth's sixth and most rapid mass extinction event and the human population explosion. Thus, the poem recognizes, in the epics of antiquity, warnings all too relevant for our time, even as it attempts to revise old ideologies and economies that may contribute to our current condition.;The poem expands the classical understanding of community beyond the human (and human-like divinity). Such amplification occurs through amalgam and accretion, both common to the poem with which the book begins: Homer's Iliad. The Iliad's origins---like those of life itself---are famously lost in time, and the epic contains a tangled mix of chronologically disparate Greek cultures, dialects, and periods. Similarly, the origins of life are not neatly presented in a coherent stratigraphic sequence, but rather are scattered across the earth in a jumble of deep time. Just as western literature's first great city---Troy---is defined by its loss, so the geologic eras are defined by their mass extinctions. By foregrounding poetic and scientific methods used to measure time, through the twelve sections, or "clocks," the poem attempts to explore alternative understandings of remembrance and value, weighing memory against warning; fate against possibilities for change; inevitable, grand, and sweeping loss against possible, modest, and gradual recovery.
机译：这首诗探讨了史诗传统中诗与时间之间的联系。在对英雄主义的经典理解中，男人接受早期死亡以换取诗意的不朽。这首诗的目的是探索其他鲜为人知的生活社区成员所遭受的牺牲和损失：妇女，儿童和非人类生活。即使这首诗拒绝了诗歌般的关于早逝的庆祝活动，它仍然掩盖了在当前生态危机的背景下对这种过早丧失的史诗般的理解，包括地球上第六次也是最快的大规模灭绝事件和人口爆炸。因此，这首诗在上古史诗中认识到了与我们时代息息相关的警告，即使它试图修改可能有助于我们当前状况的旧意识形态和经济。 （以及类人的神性）。这种放大是通过汞齐和增生发生的，这两者都是本书开头的诗：荷马的《伊利亚特》。伊利亚特的起源-就像生活本身的起源-随时间流逝而闻名，而史诗则包含了按时间顺序排列的希腊文化，方言和时期的错综复杂的组合。同样，生命的起源并没有以连贯的地层顺序巧妙地呈现出来，而是在深深的混乱中分散在整个地球上。就像西方文学的第一个伟大的城市-特洛伊（Troy）-是由它的失落来定义的一样，地质时代也由它们的大灭绝来定义。通过在十二个部分或“时钟”中采用诗意和科学的方法来测量时间，这首诗试图探索对记忆和价值的另类理解，权衡对警告的记忆。反对改变的可能性的命运；在可能的，适度的和逐步的恢复下不可避免的，巨大的和全面的损失。

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  • 作者

    Paegle, Julie Sophia.;

  • 作者单位

    The University of Utah.;

  • 授予单位 The University of Utah.;
  • 学科 Literature American.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2006
  • 页码 73 p.
  • 总页数 73
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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