De “A Country Walk” a The Pen Shop: un análisis sobre la espacialidad y la tradición irlandesa en la obra de Thomas Kinsella

Abstract

The work of Irish poet Thomas Kinsella constantly inquires into the relationship between poetry and tradition in Irish literature. For more than fifty years, his poems, essays and translations have shaped a deep approach to the building of a national literature scarred by colonization’s linguistic and ideological effects. This article will compare and analize two of Kinsella’s peripathetic poems: “A Country Walk” (1962) and The Pen Shop (1997). This analysis will help us to observe how Kinsella’s poems propose a complex web of relations between conciousness, space, myth and tradition. These links can be framed -and included into- the wider scope of postcolonial literary studies. The analysis will lean on three major pillars. Kinsella’s essays, on one hand, will give us a sample of his awareness of the many subjective issues underlining his poetry. The academia, on the other hand, will give us an essential support to unmingle the many historical, geographical and personal references in both poems. Finally, the theories regarding subject-space relations –from Michel de Certeau to Walter Benjamin– will help us demonstrate the meanings created between frontiers, space and territory during these poetical-meditative strolls.