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Abstract
The current thesis tackles Robert Bly’s nature and political poetry in terms of postmodernism and psychoanalysis. It explores the main features of postmodernism and psychoanalysis as reflected in Bly’s poetry. Bly is one of the neoromantic poets in contemporary American poetry, for he presents a new treatment and vision of the ideas and themes adopted from some romantic poets such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge and Percy Shelley from England, Johann Goethe and Friedrich Hölderlin from Germany. Jungian psychology serves as a vehicle in Bly’s nature and political poetry. In other words, Bly adopts the ideas and theories of Jungian psychology to achieve the psychic wholeness of man, and to be capable of understanding the human psyche and its relation to nature and politics. The human psyche links nature poetry with political poetry, for the human psyche plays an integral part in nature and political poetry.
As for nature poetry, following the achievement of man psychic wholeness, Bly focuses on the intuition of the inner spiritual world and its relation to nature, which results in some spiritual experiences with nature. There are many aspects of nature in Robert Bly’s poetry, including nature mysticism, the consciousness of nature, pantheism and the dark side of nature. As for political poetry, Bly focuses on the conflict between the inner spiritual and outer, political world to understand the human behaviour in the political world and the psychological reasons for the corruption of society and the atrocities of wars and the American passion to kill innocent people and destroy others. As a protest poet, he wrote some memorable protest poems against the wars of Iraq and Vietnam, the American internal policy such as American society, the capitalist system and elections. He reveals the dark side of the American history, which is full of violence, destruction, greed and bloodshed.
As for poetic technique, there are significant technical features in Bly’s poetry that helped to embody his poetic themes and vision throughout his poetry. He used different poetic forms, including free verse, prose poetry, the haiku, dramatic monologue and the Ghazal form. Furthermore, his poetry abounds in binary opposition such as the physical/ Spiritual dichotomy, the inward /outward dichotomy and the masculine / the feminine dichotomy. All these poetic techniques helped Bly to convey and reflect his poetic themes clearly and successfully.
This thesis is divided into four chapters preceded by an introduction and followed by a conclusion. Chapter One presents the theoretical framework of the study in which the definitions of nature and political poetry, the features of postmodernism, the ideas and theories of psychoanalysis, and the relation between postmodernism and psychoanalysis are highlighted. Chapter Two explores the aspects of nature in terms of postmodernism and psychoanalysis. Chapter Three presents the political aspects in terms of postmodernism and psychoanalysis. Chapter Four explores Robert Bly’s poetic technique and its development throughout his poetry. There are many technical aspects in Bly’s poetry such as the poetic language, leaping technique and the poetic image. The conclusion presents a summary of the thesis and highlights the main findings of the study.