EILÉAN NÍ CHUILLEANÁIN’S ‘OLD ROADS’ AS A CHRONOTOPIC METAPHOR

Resumo

With Mikhail Bakhtin’s concepts of the chronotope – “the intrinsic connectedness of temporal and spatial relationships that are artistically expressed in literature” – as theoretical background, this article examines Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin poem “Old Roads” with a view to showing how the imagery of the road and its expansions in the poem, with their symbolic, cultural and Irish associations, gradually become chronotopic metaphors for “the course of a life”. Simultaneously, as these chronotopic images are impregnated by the poet’s sensibility, the poem also becomes paradigmatic of Benedetto Croce’s doctrine of poetry, as it embodies the two constant and necessary elements that make one consider it a poem: a complex of images and a feeling that animates it.

Keywords: Irish poetry. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. Chronotope.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18305/1679-5520/scripta.uniandrade.v13n2p53-66