Seamus Heaney’s Poetics of Verbalization

Abstract

Heaney scholars like Robert Buttel, M.R. Molino, Neil Corcoran, Steven Ratiner, and Terry Eagleton have tried to demystify Heaney’s “poetics” from different perspectives. In the process, some schismatical/truncated analyses of this Nobel laureate’s poetics, in terms of his art/craft/technique of poeticization, have been effected. Yet scholars like Michael Molino, Steven Ratiner, and Michael Cavanagh have effected some sort of holistic and intensive appreciation of Seamus Heaney’s Poetics. However, till today, no serious effort has been made to critique Seamus Heaney’s art of poetic articulation in the light of the ars poetica ascribed to Ernest Francisco Fenollosa and Nikolay Gumilyov. The principal aim of this demystificatory paper is to put Heaney’s poetics of articulation under the Fenollosa-Gumilyov bi-focal critical lens. The subsidiary aim of this investigative analysis is to deconstruct Heaney’s preference for pure verbal phrases in terms of the aforementioned Fenollosa-Gumilyovian technique of poetic verbalization. The Paper by Bikram Keshari Rout and Jayprakash Paramaguru entitled “Seamus Heaney’s Poetics of Verbalization” attempts to put Heaney’s poetics of articulation under the Fenollosa- Gumilyov bi-focal critical lens. The subsidiary aim of this investigative analysis is to deconstruct Heaney’s preference for pure verbal phrases in terms of the aforementioned Fenollosa-Gumilyovian technique of poetic verbalization.