Abstract
This essay addresses three questions:
- What special challenges to poets does an age present in which human beings have acquired an influence over the Earth's physical and biological systems on a scale such that its traces will be visible as a geological layer millions of years hence, long after the probable extinction of our species?
- What does poetry exploring human subjectivity and behaviour in the age of planetary responsibility have in common with the German nature poetry of Classicism and Romanticism?
- And what distinguishes it from the environmentally committed poetry written in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s?
- What special challenges to poets does an age present in which human beings have acquired an influence over the Earth's physical and biological systems on a scale such that its traces will be visible as a geological layer millions of years hence, long after the probable extinction of our species?
- What does poetry exploring human subjectivity and behaviour in the age of planetary responsibility have in common with the German nature poetry of Classicism and Romanticism?
- And what distinguishes it from the environmentally committed poetry written in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s?
| Translated title of the contribution | Nature Poetry - Environmental Poetry - Poetry in the Anthropocene: Challenges, Continuities and Differences |
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| Original language | German |
| Title of host publication | All dies hier, Majestät, ist deins |
| Subtitle of host publication | Lyrik im Anthropozän: Anthologie |
| Editors | Anja Bayer, Daniela Seel |
| Place of Publication | Berlin, Germany |
| Publisher | KOOKbooks |
| Pages | 287-305 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783937445816 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Publication series
| Name | Reihe Lyrik |
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| Name | Reihe Lyrik |
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| Publisher | kookbooks |
| Volume | 48 |
Keywords
- German poetry, anthropocene, nature poem