"Bare life" and the garden politics of Roethke and Heaney.(Theodor Roethke, Seamus Heaney )

Mosaic (Winnipeg) | December 1, 2005| | Copyright

This essay reads the poetry of Theodor Roethke and Seamus Heaney in the light of Giorgio Agamben's philosophy of plant and animal life and his notion of "bare life." It argues that both poets offer very different descriptions of the nature of the relationship between human and non-human life.

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Theodore Roethke's homage to fields and gardens knows no bounds. In "Unfold! Unfold," "the field is no longer simple: It's a soul crossing time," (Collected 89) and the voice of the later poem, "The Far Field," is "renewed" by the "dry scent of a dying ...

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