Gendered Spaces in Contemporary Irish Poetry

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3 Paul Muldoon, Partition and Hybridity Two places at once was it, or one place twice?^1 Discussing Heaneyís poetry, deterritori ...

particular world picture, any kind of ism, that insists on everything falling into place very neatly ñ^5 Rather like his ëHedgeh ...

overshadowed by the beginning of the Troubles, perhaps fostering a feeling of political impotence rather than ethical responsibi ...

genetic cross-breed from the coupling of the female horse and male donkey, can be seen as consigned to barrenness by the conflic ...

opening oneself to the floodgates, but he also hopes to discover ëthe extent of limits.í As he notes in his Bateson lecture (199 ...

Attempting to extend the limits of thinking and writing, to avoid confinement in the name of disjunction, Muldoonís favoured pla ...

ëTwiceí A doubling is played out at a poetic level in Muldoonís poem ëTwiceí (1994) which provides the epigraph for this chapter ...

understanding the splitting and doubling involved in the constitution and performance of identities which can be problematized i ...

imperialism. As for those calling themselves Englishmen this means denying an entire ëEnglishí history of invasion and infiltrat ...

I could hear, far below, the sound of two streams coming together (both were frozen over)^25 The poem begins with a winter lands ...

untainted or uncorrupted. The poem is hardly a fine example of mediation or ëbalanceí between cultures. However, the poem is not ...

acknowledges that there are differences as well as similarities between the two colonies: It would be naÔve of me to say that th ...

one in each stanza, has the effect of introducing the issues of representation and interpretation being subjective and visual. T ...

that had toppled overí because it is fragile and easily smashed. Distinctions are not easily made and the male figure wonders ëw ...

with his hope for ëthe affirmation and acceptance of differenceí.^34 As the poem tries to imagine the figure to be inbetween the ...

use of words in Muldoonís poetry and argued that this is a postmodern characteristic of linguistic interchange that erodes diffe ...

speaker is a middle man, the poem provides no spirit levelled sense of balance. Rather, the poem articulates a rupture while hol ...

The poem is composed of words which convey movement: ëreachedí, ëfellí, ëcomeí, ëtravelledí, ëescapingí, ëarrivedí, ëcameí, ëgoí ...

Alternatively, the encounter may be viewed as an act of reciprocity between individuals. Although the couple are separated at th ...