英文摘要 |
Excrement is normally regarded as the most disgusting among the things issued from one's body. This essay aims at discussing how the imagery of excrement came to be a topic discussed in contemporary Taiwanese poetry, its novelty as a trend and its wonderful transfiguration. After a sizable corpus of works were inspected and analyzed, three main patterns of poetic production were apparent: First, the blocked-up excrement type, stemming from a gloomy outlook, uses excrement as a metaphor for the devil or evil. The desire to rid oneself of the foulness is unrealized, resulting in pent-up emotion and thoughts. Second, the splashing excrement type challenges the notion of ”curbing desires and avoiding filth.” It uses excrement as a weapon for antisocial action, as a way to rethink what it means to be human. Third, the amusing excrement type advocates freedom and liberation, by viewing excrement as a magical and whimsical game. This is used to deconstruct things noble and to destroy the grand narrative. Finally, the possibility of establishing an ”excrement poetics” is discussed. |