The Flee from Saturn:The Melancholy Writing and Its Turn in Louise Glück's Works
Melancholy and stillness have always been the hallmarks of 2020 Nobel Prize laureate Louise Glück.The dynamics of her poetic production and functioning enjoy a high degree of commonality with that of the"melancholic Saturn."In the early stage of her career,she employed depression and anorexia from her personal experience as the meaning generator of her poems,and encoded her questioning and scrutinizing of God into poems.Melancholy seems to occupy an absolute dominant position in the texture of Glück's works as well as the texture of her personality.However,in recent works,Glück forsook her previous strategy of melancholy writing and instead placed more emphasis on the joy and happiness that daily life endows and conveys to humans.The Saturn temperament in Glück's works is gradually transformed into the mechanism of generating positive meanings,which is not only a major turning point of Glück's composition style,but also the unremitting attempt made by Glück in her later years to save herself from the emotional abyss.
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