In my remembered country: what poetry tells us about the changing perceptions of volcanoes between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries

Soldati, Arianna; Illingworth, Sam

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-3-73-2020

Articles | Volume 3, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-3-73-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-3-73-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 3, issue 1

Research article

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26 Mar 2020

Research article |

| 26 Mar 2020

In my remembered country: what poetry tells us about the changing perceptions of volcanoes between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries

Arianna Soldati and Sam Illingworth

Data sets

Volcano Poetry A. Soldati and S. Illingworth https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/2D5K6

Short summary

In this study we investigate what poetry written about volcanoes from the 1800s to the present day reveals about the relationship between humanity and volcanoes, including how it evolved over that time frame. This analysis reveals that the human–volcano relationship is especially centred around the sense of identity that volcanoes provide to humans, which may follow from both positive and negative events, and has a spiritual element to it.