Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Dil Dergisi, cilt.2019, sa.170/2, ss.53-70, 2019 (Hakemli Dergi)
This paper aims to examine R. F. Langley’s poetry as anexample of radical landscape poetry, which is characterizedby the interplay between landscape and language in an openfield of con/textual relationships, with special focus on hispoem “To a Nightingale”. Langley’s poetry can be regardedas a Modernist compound of tradition and innovation,affirmation and negation, certainty and doubt, and the humanand the non-human. Langley’s poetic landscape(s) or hisartistic canvas is associated with the late-modernist writingof his time. In Langley’s poetry, the relationships betweenlandscape/environment and humanity, the human and thenon-human are depicted as mutually constructive. Situatedbetween the romantic and the existentialist discourses,Langley’s poetry possesses a modernist, depersonalized,scientific, innovative, experimental and speculative approachto reality and language. “To a Nightingale” epitomizes themodernist indeterminacy of reality and language through thevertiginous vacillation of the speaker between alternativesof truth and expression in the checkerboard of existence, aswell as through the disordered structure and shape of thepoem, alternating between opposite poles, through the use ofstylistic devices such as parataxis, juxtaposition, enjambment,parallelism, deviation, foregrounding and discoursal relations.