The archetypal mandala: Visions of the self in the poetry of Coleridge, Eliot and Breytenbach
Literator June 4, 2013 E. Deudney
This paper is a preliminary survey of the visions of the s e lf in poetry. It is concerned with the transformation of consciousness as depicted by each of the three poets a Romantic, a Modernist and a Postmodernist poet respectively and expressed in specific poems with a cyclical nature. The romantic poet Coleridge's “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is taken as the first example. It is found...