Wild Court

An international poetry journal based in the English Department of King’s College London

Rachel Carney

  • The Importance of Subjectivity in Ekphrastic Poems by Auden and Plath

    The Importance of Subjectivity in Ekphrastic Poems by Auden and Plath

    Pieter Brueghel, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, c.1560     Rachel Carney   What happens when you are asked to review a book or a painting? You will undoubtedly attempt some kind of objective analysis but, ultimately, your review will be subjective, influenced by your own ideas, values and experiences, perhaps even the mood…