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Image as a Symbol: The Symbolic Connotations of Brooklyn Bridge in the Poems of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s “Brooklyn Bridge,” Hart Crane’s “To Brooklyn Bridge” and Marianne Moore’s “Granite and Steel”

Abstract
This study expounds the symbolic significance of "Brooklyn Bridge" as a main image in the poetry of Mayakovsky, Crane and Moore.From a Marxist perspective, the Russian Futurist poet Mayakovsky believes that Brooklyn image foreshadows the ideas of class inequality in America.Moreover, it suggests the poet's inherent belief in St. Augustine's connotations of the city of Cain.In "To Brooklyn Bridge,"...
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Keywords
Poetry
Bridge (graph theory)
Symbol (formal)
Literature
The Symbolic
Marxist philosophy
Art history
Soul
Philosophy
Art
Law
Theology
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Politics
Political science
Internal medicine
Medicine
Linguistics
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Reduced inequalities

2021
Article

Open Access


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Image as a Symbol: The Symbolic Connotations of Brooklyn Bridge in the Poems of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s “Brooklyn Bridge,” Hart Crane’s “To Brooklyn Bridge” and Marianne Moore’s “Granite and Steel”
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Image as a Symbol: The Symbolic Connotations of Brooklyn Bridge in the Poems of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s “Brooklyn Bridge,” Hart Crane’s “To Brooklyn Bridge” and Marianne Moore’s “Granite and Steel”

Abstract
This study expounds the symbolic significance of "Brooklyn Bridge" as a main image in the poetry of Mayakovsky, Crane and Moore.From a Marxist perspective, the Russian Futurist poet Mayakovsky believes that Brooklyn image foreshadows the ideas of class inequality in America.Moreover, it suggests the poet's inherent belief in St. Augustine's connotations of the city of Cain.In "To Brooklyn Bridge,"...
View PDF
Keywords
Poetry
Bridge (graph theory)
Symbol (formal)
Literature
The Symbolic
Marxist philosophy
Art history
Soul
Philosophy
Art
Law
Theology
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Politics
Political science
Internal medicine
Medicine
Linguistics
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Reduced inequalities

2021
Article

Open Access


pdf file