GRATITUDE GUSHING: BRODSKY ON THE CONDITION OF EXILE
Keywords:
Brodsky, diaspora, exile, writerAbstract
Joseph Brodsky was Russian American poet who was exiled from his mother country Russia because of several anti-social allegations. Then he settled in America and continued to write throughout his life. He won several prestigious honours including Poet Laureate of the United States and above all, Nobel Prize for Literature. Arguably, he was the most successful exiled poet which makes his views on exile far more interesting. He has given these accounts in his essays, of which “The Condition We Call Exile, or Acorns Aweigh” is solely dedicated to the Exile. It is, actually, a 1987 lecture delivered at Wheatland Conference, held in Vienna. In the essay, he shared his ideas of an exiled writer. The present paper will try to decipher the meanings of his ideas along with his personal elements.
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