Authors: Nouhr-Dine D. Akondo
The present study elaborates on the intrinsic link between science and poetry. As one of the contemporary health concerns, cancer remains one of the stumbling blocks to most medical researches. Cancer consists in a diseased growth in the human body which causes anatomic mutations. Such a clinical reality has lent subject matter to the poetry Jo Shapcott, a British poet who has provided an exquisite representation of cancer in its chemotherapeutic aspects in Of Mutability. The purpose of this study is to use the semiotic method in order to highlight how Jo Shapcott aesthetically explores imageries and tropes in order to represents cancer in its clinical manifestations and the impacts cancer has on the morale and social relations of patients living with the ail.
Keywords: Poetry, cancer, depiction, ail, mutations.
Nouhr-Dine D. Akondo, Assistant Professor, English Literature and Poetry, Department of English, Université de Lomé, Togo. Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
