'Like a Stone': Ecology, Enargeia, and Ethical Time in Alice Oswald's Memorial

摘要: This article argues that the Anthropocene is marked by haunted time. As 'geological agents' of climate change, as Dipesh Chakrabarty has put it, we both identify with 'deep time' processes and conjure ghosts those whose lives to come will be shaped in drastic ways our actions present. explores a poetics time via readings work artist/sculptor Ilana Halperin poet Alice Oswald. Halperin's recent "slow fast time" geological (calcification lava flows), also body's own capacity generate geologic material (in form body stones), engages possibility "geologic intimacy." From here, reads Memorial, Oswald's translation Iliad pared down snapshot biographies soldiers killed Trojan wars interleaved series astonishing similes natural world, an example Drawing on James Hatley's theory ethical its ecocritical application Deborah Bird Rose, I argue strategy repeating creates kind spectral echo, giving expression enfolding diachronic synchronous which intergenerational responsibilities are realised. The poem thus represents passage difficult intimacy rethinking relationship between past, present, future effects.