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Volume 09, Number 1 (1984)

Iconic Mythopoeia in MacEwen's The T.E. Lawrence Poems

  • R.F. Gillian Harding
Submitted
May 22, 2008
Published
1984-01-01

Abstract

Icons are used to present abstract notions in Gwendolyn MacEwen's The T.E. Lawrence Poems. For example, a stone becomes an icon for concrete reality whose material eludes understanding; clouds are a metamorphosis of water symbolically mediating heaven and earth. There is a powerful process of dialectic in which one extreme leads to another in the poems; this suggests the paradox of transcendence through inverse means that we see repeated throughout the poetry.