NATIONAL AND UNIVERSAL ASPECTS OF EMOTIONAL CONCEPTS IN THE POETRY OF LOUISE GLÜCK
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Louise Glück, Nobel Prize laureate and one of the most distinctive American poets of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, constructs a lyrical world where private emotions are articulated through symbols that acquire both national resonance and universal validity. Her verse negotiates between personal grief, collective cultural memory, and archetypal motifs, offering readers a landscape in which inner experience is not isolated but continuously intersects with broader human conditions. This study examines how Glück’s poetic imagination transforms subjective feelings into expressions capable of transcending cultural borders, while still reflecting her American identity.
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