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The vindicated music soaring out - Music as Metaphor in Pearse Hutchinson's Poetry

Author(s) -

Eva Bourke

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

sirena

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1554-7655

pISSN - 1548-6400

DOI - 10.1353/sir.0.0258

Subject(s) - poetry , stanza , art , metaphor , literature , panopticon , judgement , sonification , english poetry , philosophy , sociology , linguistics , epistemology , computer science , brother , human–computer interaction , anthropology

The place Pearse Hutchinson inhabits in his poems is frequently that of discrete observance. The poet’s aesthetic is informed by sympathetic attention; his unprejudiced gaze takes in the whole world; his vision is panoptic, his ears are all-hearing, panacoustic, his judgement is never less than gracious and inclusive. Occasionally it happens that observed and overheard scenes and events combine in a dazzling moment of synaesthetic illumination, as in the last stanza of the poem A Findrum Blackbird:

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