期刊名称：Estudios Irlandeses : Journal of Irish Studies
电子版ISSN：1699-311X
出版年度：2013
期号：8
页码：12-21
出版社：Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses
摘要：The Twelfth of Never, published in 1998 by Ciaran Carson, is composed of seventy-seven poems in the form of the French sonnet. This collection embodies the poet's ever-recurring preoccupations with the representation of the world, both past and present, through the medium of language. This article aims at showing in what ways reality is transfigured and re-created for the reader. The poet turns to a form of writing in motion that subverts tradition and provides the means of entering another world, that of fantasy
关键词：Sonnet; representation; metaphors; reality; fantasy
