Learning Pain: Poetry in Emotion |
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Authors: | Loizidou Elena |
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Institution: | (1) School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, WC1E 7HX, UK |
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Abstract: | This paper asks the question; is a poetic response to law and suffering legitimate? It reflects upon Robert Duncan's poem Persephone and imagines the (dis)connections between law, literature and poetry. It muses upon the “Trauma” of the poem and the “wound” considered in the context of both public and private law and considers the politics of sentimentality, dominant within the political agenda of the 21st century. The article uses the poem as a lens which reveals that the law fails to address the question of suffering as the wound of the poem is used by the poet as a pedagogical argument to teach us about loss. |
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Keywords: | Persephone politics of sentimentality Robert Duncan suffering wound |
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