Date of Award
2017
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Department
English Language, Literature, and Creative Writing
Keywords
anatomy, biology, Da Vinci, medicine, metaphysical, poetry
Supervisor
Holbrook, Susan
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
Gutted is a collection of poems that re-evaluate the way in which we look at the human body. These poems look to fuse the taxonomical properties of an anatomy book with the subjectivity of poetry in order to imagine physical manifestations of metaphysical events in the body. Included in these works are anatomical drawings that create visual representations of their accompanying poetic content. These drawings are conceptualized based upon how each part of the body is described rather than what they look like in reality. Many of the poems in this manuscript call upon the history of medicine for their content in order to highlight previous theories of the body that extended beyond its physical and mechanical functions. Thinkers such as Da Vinci, Galen and Hippocrates are quoted directly, showing the way in which medicine and anatomy were approached through the lenses of art and philosophy in tandem with scientific observation. There poems use the subjectivity of language and meaning to locate the nonphysical and the experiential within the body, allowing the body to become physically unfamiliar but experientially more recognizable.
Recommended Citation
Drumm, Philip Alexander, "Gutted" (2017). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 5977.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/5977