5/12/2023 0 Comments Tracy k smith poems life on marsHer adaptation of the category expands the frame of reference for the purposes of an existential inquiry into the nature of humanity and transcendence. Smith employs the cosmic sublime not only as a spatial mode of perception but also as a metaphor of the emotional response to death. The primary intention of my study is to examine the strategies and implications of the poet’s revisionary engagement with the aesthetics, rhetoric, popular mythology and mysticism of the spatial infinite. Written after the death of her father, who was one of the engineers of the Hubble telescope, the volume links personal elegy and the work of mourning with philosophical questions about the relationship between the self and scientifically framed visions of the cosmos. Smith uses tropes of cosmic perspective, scientific gaze and interplanetary travel to problematize the relationship between human finitude and the boundless unknown of the universe. In her book of poetry Life on Mars (2011), Tracy K. The cosmic sublime, as the most spectacular manifestation of the natural sublime, offers rich stimuli for the literary imagination, as well as for various interactions between science, culture and art.
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