"Last Ink"

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The paper explains how Michael Ondaatje's poem "Last Ink" presents a complex reflection upon love and how the writer perceives and represents thought and experience. The paper demonstrates how Ondaatje achieves these objectives through the use of imagery and syntactical constructions. The paper illustrates how "Last Ink" is a powerful and resonant poetic work.

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"One of the particularly interesting features of "Last Ink" is the centrality of the writing experience in the poem. The act of writing is not for Ondaatje restricted to pen and paper. Rather, throughout his work, he has reflected on writing as an act of creation that is central to the human experience (Vigurs 72). For Ondaatje, for example, lovers are writers and the lover's body becomes a medium upon which a text is inscribed. Love and sensuality have been recognized as predominating in the themes and imagery of Ondaatje's poetry (Sen 338)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Ondaatje, Michael. "Last Ink." In 15 Canadian Poets x 3.Ed. Gary Geddes. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2001: 346-48.
• Rosenfeld, Natania. "Less Light: The Ends of Aestheticism inPater, Ondaatje, and Sebald." Modernism/Modernity. 13.2 (2006): 349-366.
• Sen, Sundeep. "Handwriting." World Literature Today. 73.2 (1999):338-339.
• Solecki, Sam. "Handwriting." Books in Canada. 27.8 (1998): 7-8.
• Vigurs, Rochelle. "On Rock and Book and Leaf: Reading Ondaatje's Handwriting." Studies in Canadian Literature. 26.2 (2001):71-92.

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