FORMAL AND STYLISTIC EXPLORATIONS AND MODERNITY IN LOUISE GLÜCK’S POETRY
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This study explores the formal and stylistic dimensions of Louise Glück’s poetry in relation to contemporary notions of modernity. As a poet renowned for her austere voice, psychological depth, and innovative structural choices, Glück employs a range of formal experiments that challenge conventional lyric expectations. The analysis highlights how her use of minimalism, fragmented narrative sequences, mythological reframing, and shifts in speaker identity contribute to a distinctly modern poetic sensibility. Glück’s integration of silence, ambiguity, and compressed imagery is examined as a means of articulating modern existential concerns, including alienation, self-reconstruction, and the instability of memory. Through close reading of selected poems across different periods of her oeuvre, the study demonstrates that Glück’s modernity emerges not from overt experimentation alone, but from her sustained engagement with emotional truth, introspection, and the reconfiguration of traditional poetic forms. This research thus situates Glück’s work within broader modernist and postmodernist trajectories, emphasizing her contribution to the evolution of contemporary American poetry.
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