John Ashbery’s Poetic Journey into the Selfhood in Flow Chart
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This paper aims to explore how John Ashbery’s Flow Chart elaborates on the poetic journey into the selfhood. Flow Chart is a flow chart or schematic outline of an autobiography, which implies some larger, communal narrative more accurately enacted as poetry rather than as linear, directed narrative itself. What the poem insists on is a subversion of linearity. Evoking a river, the poetry constantly describes everyday’s and anybody’s lives, including historical and political events. Through the self-reflexive mode, Ashbery asks the reader to question the construction of poetry and its ability to make any claims for the poetic self. Thus, Flow Chart seeks to configure, however obliquely and among other interpretative valences, the fact that the poetic self is no longer a stable and fixed entity, but is rather a fluctuating construct defined by the selves encompassing and penetrating it. We can see the failure to communicate and understand clearly our false assumptions regarding poetic identity. Ashbery portrays that the self is not only in flux, but also as a part of constant crisis in the erasure of subjectivity.
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This paper aims to explore how John Ashbery’s Flow Chart elaborates on the poetic journey into the selfhood. Flow Chart is a flow chart or schematic outline of an autobiography, which implies some larger, communal narrative more accurately enacted as poetry rather than as linear, directed narrative itself. What the poem insists on is a subversion of linearity. Evoking a river, the poetry constantly describes everyday’s and anybody’s lives, including historical and political events. Through the self-reflexive mode, Ashbery asks the reader to question the construction of poetry and its ability to make any claims for the poetic self. Thus, Flow Chart seeks to configure, however obliquely and among other interpretative valences, the fact that the poetic self is no longer a stable and fixed entity, but is rather a fluctuating construct defined by the selves encompassing and penetrating it. We can see the failure to communicate and understand clearly our false assumptions regarding poetic identity. Ashbery portrays that the self is not only in flux, but also as a part of constant crisis in the erasure of subjectivity.
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