Self Revelation Versus Artistic Representation In Katherine Mansfield's Poems

Abstract

Katherine Mansfield is usually known as a short story writer and she is considered, along with Guy De Maupassant, Anton Chekhov and Edgar Allan Poe, as the major contributors of short prose writing.But, paradoxically, Mansfield is rarely known as a versifier and a poetess, though her short stories hold some poetical insights, as in “At the Bay,” and “Prelude.” This paper, thus, is a modest contribution in Katherine Mansfield's heritage of writing poetry. My study will focus on her lonely book, Poems, and splinters of verses scattered here and there in her journals, letters and diaries. My research tries to get deep within her poetic production in order to find out what she uses as techniques, chooses as themes and adopts as vision.