Ganin V. N.

Flower Rituals in Louise Glück’s Collection of Poems The Wild Iris     Р. 141-148.

UDC 821.111(73)-1.09«19»

DOI: 10.37724/RSU.2023.79.2.014

Abstract. The article analyzes the poetic collection The Wild Iris, by the American poet and Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück. In 1993, she won a Pulitzer Prize for the book The Wild Iris. The goal of the article is to identify the artistic functions of flowers in this body of poetry, to determine what place is given to them in this triaolog, where, besides flowers, there correspond the gardener-poetess and a certain higher power, sometimes identified with Yahweh (and sometimes with a personal deity, never failing to attract the attention of the heroine). The relevance of the study is due to the fact that it focuses on the works of an author who has received a number of prestigious literary awards and occupies a leading position in the literary process of the United States of America. The results obtained make it possible, to characterize the new trends emerging in modern poetry and the new methods of poetic exploration of the natural world. They also demonstrate new ways to overcome the fragmentation and discreteness of the consciousness of a modern person in a literary work. The practical significance of the work lies in the fact that its materials can be used to develop lectures and workshops on modern foreign literature, as well as special courses on contemporary English-language poetry.

 

Keywords: modern poetry, US poetry, L. Glück’s works, images of flowers in poetry, The Wild Iris.

 

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