![]() ![]() We may ask whether the poet’s memory is significant at all, or is it overridden by the collective? I would like to suggest that they are intertwined and it does not seem possible to draw a clear-cut line between the two. There seems to be a dialogue, or interplay, between the two where literature serves as a mnemonic device that constructs cultural memory. Both personal (individual) and public (communal) memory feed off one another in shaping the literary tradition and forming a segment of cultural memory. The individual memory of the poet and the collective memory of society pour into this receptacle we name literature where it brews and becomes an aspect of cultural heritage. ![]() From a philological perspective, literature may be identified as the “stomach” (in the Augustinian sense) of the body of society wherein all forms of knowledge pertaining to the culture of any given people are digested, ruminated, absorbed and re-written. Considering the literary narrative as a canvas where a plethora of images are verbally expressed, this paper argues that poetic imagination, specifically, becomes a textual space that informs, and is informed by, cultural memory. ![]()
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