Sobre pájaros, portaviones y el verbo simbolizar en poesía: A propósito de un poema de lan Hamilton Finlay

Abstract

This paper sees 20th C. poetry in general, and British and North American contemporary poetry more specifically, not as a single, homogeneous tradition, but as split into two different traditions corresponding to two very different attitudes towards meaning, the romantic-symbolist and the modern-materialist. Consideration of this split and of anthropologist Dan Sperber's view of symbolic behaviour as an activity rather than a code helps illuminate one of I. H. Finlay's most effective object poems.