Lepidopterology Essay

Jesper Svenbro
This Study Guide consists of approximately 29 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Lepidopterology.

Lepidopterology Essay

Jesper Svenbro
This Study Guide consists of approximately 29 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Lepidopterology.
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Trudell is an independent scholar with a bachelor's degree in English literature. In the following essay, Trudell discusses Svenbro's commentary on literary aesthetics throughout the first two sections of Three-toed Gull in order to analyze the poet's treatment of poetry and linguistics in “Lepidopterology.”

“Lepidopterology” is one of the more accessible poems of Svenbro's collection, with its clear narrative progression and its single extended metaphor in which a butterfly, in its various stages of development, is compared to the human psyche. Like many of the other poems in Three-toed Gull, however, it is also a subtle and challenging meditation on language and aesthetics, a branch of philosophy that studies the nature of beauty. Its dramatization of the “seemingly insoluble conflict between dream and reality” that locks itself into a closed cocoon is a reference to poetry, another type of cocoon that holds language in one place. The...

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