Vie sociale et vie intérieure : la position lyrique dans les sonnets de Gwendolyn Brooks, Pier Paolo Pasolini et Tony Harrison

Abstract

While writing social narratives which set them as outcasts, these three poets not only engage their poetical selves in the social arena but also endanger their personal stances, leaving them exposed to a social polyphony that may either drown them out, or extend their range and depth. They notably use their personal stance in order to challenge the admitted value of social rites, choosing instead to propose idiosyncratic rituals, shaped and permitted by the sonnet form—one that both canalizes the poets’ contestation and comes to represent a poetical ritual in itself.

Keywords

• compared literature
• Gwendolyn Brooks
• Tony Harrison
• Pier Paolo Pasolini
• sonnet
• poetical forms