‘Asylum under my tread’: Silences and Voices in Samuel Beckett’s Echo’s Bones and Other Precipitates

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Mª del Mar Garre García

Abstract

When discussing Samuel Beckett’s poetry, critics have noted the author’s pursuit of his self-expression beyond the boundaries of language and time. However, his early poetry has never been fully incorporated into general analysis of his poetic production. The aim of this essay is to offer a different viewpoint from which to consider Echo’s Bones and Other Precipitates (1935), Beckett’s first collection of poems, in close connection with the potential meaning of the term ‘facultatif’, used by the author himself in a letter to his friend Thomas McGreevy to describe this poetry. My contention is that Beckett’s early poetry was for him a sheltered space of self-expression and liberation, where he could most easily describe his innermost thoughts. In this respect, Echo’s Bones will be ultimately considered as a key point at which to attempt a general definition of Beckett’s poetics.

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‘Asylum under my tread’: Silences and Voices in Samuel Beckett’s Echo’s Bones and Other Precipitates. (2020). VERBEIA. Revista De Estudios Filológicos. Journal of English and Spanish Studies, 6(5), 29-49. https://doi.org/10.57087/Verbeia.2020.4090

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