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The Interweaving of Humanity and Animality-Animal Narrative at Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry

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  • Yingru Deng

    (School of Foreign Languaged, Southwest JiaoTong University, Chengdu, China)

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Alan Dugan was a contemporary American poet. His last volume, entitled Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry, was published in 2001 and won Dugan a second National Book Award. This paper is based on Alan Dugan’s narration of animals in his new poems and Dugan’snarration of animals, which conveys his profound thinking and care about human beings and the life form of existence. “Human beings” are often closely related to animals. The animal narration in Dugan’s literary works expresses a hidden human world “behind his back.” Therefore, “animals” is one of the keys to interpreting Dugan’s complex, mysterious, and bizarre narrative world. The expression and writing of animals can be used as a breakthrough point of Dugan’s research so as to dig deeply into his spiritual world and artistic characteristics in order to achieve a new understanding and thinking of his literary creation.

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  • Yingru Deng, 2024. "The Interweaving of Humanity and Animality-Animal Narrative at Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry," International Journal of Literature Studies, Al-Kindi Center for Research and Development, vol. 4(2), pages 76-83, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:alk:ijls00:v:4:y:2024:i:2:id:7814
    DOI: 10.32996/ijts.2024.4.2.11
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