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HISTORY AND MYSTICISM IN ROY FISHER'S A FURANCE

Assistant Professor Nadia Ali Ismael (PhD)

Volume: 10 Issue: 1 2020

Abstract:

A Furnace was Roy Fisher’s second-biggest masterpiece following the publication of City. However, different from his other works, A Furnace offers its reader a genius perspective on how to write about place and time. The poem provides a mystical way through which events happening at a given place are phenomenologically recorded. The poem talks about the structure and design of the path into and out of life, opening the doorway to a realm of mysticism. Together with the use of history, Fisher sets out to address his main agenda of the poem which is to explain the path from birth to death. He makes it possible to understand the happenings of events at any given place or time through the use of these two concepts. As from the results, it is apparent that mysticism and history serve great importance to Fisher’s poem as they allow him to express his rather sophisticated perspectives in a reader-friendly manner.In this essay, the main aim will be to examine Fisher’s poetry, to determine the importance of the use of history as well as mysticism in the poem. The study is conducted through an in-depth analysis of the poem as well as relevant scholarly sources that are related to the poem. The analysis of mysticism and history is carried out in two different sections, and an effectiveness section accompanies each of them.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v10i01.041

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