Trees Revisited: Exploring the Nature of Identity in Arboreal Poetry

这一创造性批评的项目调查了十九世纪北方诗歌的诗歌和生态遗产如何与当代诗歌实践对话，以造福于风景和受其启发的诗歌。批评部分探讨了人类、诗歌和树木之间的偶然关系，考察了不同阶层、性别和流派的作家的诗歌。它考虑了诗人对自然历史和文学史的业余知识，以及他们的自然保护兴趣和生活经验如何影响这种关系的诗意呈现。重温因文学文本而成名的树木，创作部分思考它们的诗意描述如何与当前的现实相互作用。它问的是，作为一个有色人种的工人阶级妇女，这位作家如何以诗意的方式与十九世纪文本的21世纪风景进行接触，探索自然、诗歌遗产和人类身份的联系。

This creative-critical project investigates how the poetic and ecological legacies of nineteenth-centuryarboreal poetry can be brought into dialogue with contemporary poetic practice for the benefit both oflandscapes and of the poetry inspired by them. The critical component explores the contingentrelationship between humanity, poetry and trees, examining poetry by writers of different classes,genders and genres. It considers how this relationship's poetic presentation is influenced by the poet'samateur knowledge of natural history and literary history, by their conservationist interests and livedexperience. Revisiting trees made famous by literary texts, the creative component considers how theirpoetic depictions interact with their current realities. It asks how this writer might engage poetically withthe twenty-first century landscapes of nineteenth-century texts as a working-class woman of colour in anexploration of the nexus of nature, poetic legacy and human identity.