MODERN ŞİİRE BİR ÖRNEK OLARAK HART CRANE’İN THE BRIDGE ADLI ÇALIŞMASI

Hart Crane’in sıra dışı şiiri olan The Bridge Amerika modern şiirinin güzel örneklerinden biridir. Yayınlandığı tarihten günümüze kadar çok yerde tartışma konusu olmuştur. Varlıklı bir aileden gelen Crane, şiirinde hayatın zenginliğini gözlemleyen romantik bir şairdir. Bu uzun şiirde şair Brooklyn köprüsünden esinlenmiştir. Ona göre bu köprü insan gücünü gösteren bir yapıttır. Şair bu şiiri ülkenin epik bir sentezi ve yapısal kimliği olarak görmektedir. Şiirde bir arayış vardır, bu arayış Amerika’nın geleceğini belirleyecek olan gerçek geçmişi ile günümüzdeki özellikleriyle ilgilidir. Şair şiirinde Amerika deneyimi dediği kavrama ulaşır. Brooklyn köprüsünü şiirin taşıyıcı sembolü olarak kullanırken çeşitli kişi ve yerler hakkında da konuşur.

HART CRANE’S THE BRIDGE AS AN EXAMPLE OF MODERNIST POETRY

This particular poem of Hart Crane is a good example of American modernist poetry. Crane’s The Bridge has been the subject of a lot of debate since its publication. Crane comes from a wealthy family and is an American Romantic poet who observes the richness of life in his poetry. In this long epic poem, the poet is inspired by the Brooklyn Bridge. For him, the bridge stands for the creative power of man. The poet considers the poem as an epic synthesis of the country and its structural identity. There is a kind of a search in the poem and this search of the poet is the one for the real American past and the characteristics of present America that will determine her future. The poet tries to come up with a view of what he calls the American experience in the poem. He adopts the Brooklyn Bridge as the poem’s supporting symbol and talks about and celebrates various people and places.

PDF

___

Brunner, Edward (1973). “Your Hands Within My Hands Are Deeds: Poems of Love in The Bridge.” The Iowa Review 1st ser. 4.
Coffman, Stanley K. Jr. (1982). “Symbolism in The Bridge.” Critical Essays on Hart Crane. Ed. David R. Clark. Massachusetts: G. K. Hall & Co.
Cowley, Malcolm (1981). “Two Views of The Bridge.” The Sewanee Review 2nd ser. 89.
Crane, Hart (1930). The Bridge. New York: Horace Liveright, Inc.
Dembo, L. S. (1960). Hart Crane’s Sanskrit Charge: A Study of The Bridge. New York: Cornell University Press.
Gregory, Horace (1982). “Far Beyond Our Consciousness.” Critical Essays on Hart Crane. Ed. David R. Clark. Massachusetts: G. K. Hall & Co.
Hazo, Samuel (1963). Hart Crane: An Introduction and Interpretation. Ed. John Mahoney. American Authors and Critics Series. New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Piculin, Karl T. (1982). “The Critics and Hart Crane’s The Bridge” an Interview with John Unterecker.” Critical Essays on Hart Crane. Ed. David R. Clark. Massachusetts: G. K. Hall & Co.
Quinn, Vincent (1963). Hart Crane. Ed. Sylvia E. Bowman. Twayne’s United States Authors Series 35. New York: Twayne Publisher, Inc.
Unterecker, John (1982). “The Architecture of The Bridge.” Hart Crane: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Alan Trachtenberg. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Vogler, Thomas A. (1965). “A New View of Hart Crane’s Bridge.” The Sewanee Review 1st ser. 73.