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...
The aim of this article is twofold: • To postulate the Buddhist notion of selflessness as central to the art and writing of Breyten Breytenbach. • To provide an overview of the philosophy this implies and of the way in which it offers a reading of the Breytenbach-oeuvre. The Buddhist concept of selflessness as expressed in the work of Breytenbach is by way of contrast firstly set against the...