Dunce

In her collection of poems Dunce, Mary Ruefle moves from the formation of the interpretive signs of the state of poetic performance, the relative realization of existence in a unique cosmic moment to the circular creative becoming that precedes the existence of the self.

Additionally, Mary Ruefle's discourse emphasizes the creative postmodern contradiction, and the deconstruction of the signified while enhancing the signs of sounds, colors, gestures, spectra, and conceptual metaphors similar to the self in its dynamic existential position and its epistemological transformations as well as the transformations of the possible experimental context in the structure of the discourse.

In her poem Dunce, The subject describes the relativity of the creative moment. Things seem to be in a state of emergence, renewal, and aesthetic transformation, such as the signs of clay, orchids, mushrooms, and colors such as brown, pink, and lights. Then she puts us in a conceptual metaphor similar to the existential attitude of fireflies when they are seduced by the scattered light everywhere Beyond the continuous exhaustion of the ends.

Therefore, if we re-interpret the sign of light in the text according to Charles Sanders Peirce’s semiotic approach, we will find that light is a real sign, but its subject is the continuous shift between joy and tragedy, and it is manifested in the act of interpretation as a mediator of exit and anticipation of beginnings and creative formation confirmed by the structure of the bog.

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Mary Ruefle also develops the experimental context and its productivity of dream signs in which the subject becomes a part of the narrative structure of the imaginary other; The representative female voice addresses a ghostly voice and she also seems like a spectrum that remembers a moment of love while being placed in the context of an ice prison and coexisting a group of creative leaps in the context of dreams and old symbolic tales.

The poet also reconstructed the signs of femininity, the tones of the seagull, the mysterious words of the language, the taste of the spectral apple after its discharge and the white cloud as space in the context of the renewed creative emergence in the world, and the renewal of existential questions that remind us of the postponement of the signified by Derrida, and the originality of the simulacrum according to Baudrillard. So, the sign stems from the question and the formative ambiguity In creative consciousness.