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Within ‘The Coil of Things’

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The Figurative Use of Devotional Objects in the Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne and Oscar Wilde

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The Figurative Use of Devotional Objects in the Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne and Oscar Wilde
ByFrancois Ropert
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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2018
Imprint Routledge
Pages 16
eBook ISBN 9781351172844

ABSTRACT

This chapter examines the few biographical 'points of connection' to a comparative approach of both writers' poetical works. It focuses on object-oriented images, especially as the hint with both poets at the omnipresence of the Greek god Pan. The chapter discusses the poem's complex inter text may also read as a key to the metaphoric use by both Wilde and Swinburne of items collected from some natural scenery to be then turned into devotional objects, often riddled with erotic connotations. The poems of Oscar Wilde enable a world of the imagination that teems with a variety of beautiful objects. The imagery instead expands and contracts in figurative spasms round a 'coil of things.' The versatility of the poem's sense of space is instead coupled with a metamorphic sense of depth, the three dimensions thus involved giving a cinematic quality to the whole panneau.

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