Writing outside the self: the disembodied narrators of W.S. Merwin.(Rhetoric and Poetics) From: Style | Date: June 22, 1996| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1996 Northern Illinois University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

M.S. Merwin's disembodied narrator seems to project a dark outlook on the world. However, this may also be read as an attempt towards a detachment from the materiality of the world or as a separation from the ego to attain a spirituality which cannot otherwise be reached. Such impersonality also brings out the visionary and prayer-like nature of his poems and emphasizes the on-going quest for the completion of a partial knowledge presented in the poems.

W. S. Merwin's poems are often delivered by "disembodied" narrators whose lack of personal identity assists them in their quest for an ...

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