Thomas Harrison
Thomas Harrison
autonomy effect issue question reading reception topic
With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem.
decades given lyric recent symbolic toward
In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy.
question remains speaks
Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed.