Event Title
Science and the Soul: Poetic Representations of Mortality
Location
Davis 306
Start Date
30-4-2015 3:15 PM
End Date
30-4-2015 3:25 PM
Project Type
Presentation- Restricted to Campus Access
Description
What happens to us after we die? Science and religion have continually tried to answer this question, sometimes working in tandem, but often arguing against each other. This project analyzes the works of poets, including poems by Dickinson, Shakespeare, and Donne, that display the tensions provoked by the uncertainties of death. Specifically observing poets' arguments for/against the resurrection of the soul and the faith or science behind these reasonings, this project argues that poetic representations of mortality are frequently dualist in nature, and that a balance of both anxiety and calm are produced as a result of the unknown.
Faculty Sponsor
Elizabeth Sagaser
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. English Dept.
CLAS Field of Study
Humanities
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
1843
Science and the Soul: Poetic Representations of Mortality
Davis 306
What happens to us after we die? Science and religion have continually tried to answer this question, sometimes working in tandem, but often arguing against each other. This project analyzes the works of poets, including poems by Dickinson, Shakespeare, and Donne, that display the tensions provoked by the uncertainties of death. Specifically observing poets' arguments for/against the resurrection of the soul and the faith or science behind these reasonings, this project argues that poetic representations of mortality are frequently dualist in nature, and that a balance of both anxiety and calm are produced as a result of the unknown.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2015/program/431