Michael Symmons Roberts Context
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- Created on: 20-05-19 09:18
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- Michael Symmons Roberts
- To John Donne
- Concerned that mapping the DNA of our bodies is harmful
- Unmapped, the human body is common ground
- People want to patent parts of the body for personal benefit
- Body is vulnerable to patenting
- John Donne
- A response the the poem 'Elegie XIX: To his Mistress Going to Bed’
- Focus on physical body and **********
- Sexual imagery and language
- Roberts uses Donne's metaphor but in an unerotic way, desexualises her
- Map metaphor throughout
- The Human Genome Project
- 1990 - 2003
- Referred to as mapping the human genome
- Controversial - should we know what makes us?
- Aimed to map all the nucleotides that make up our genes
- Career
- Interest in genetics
- Made documentary for the BBC
- Worked with Sir John Sulston
- Helped to map the Human Genome
- Believed that whoever owns land has power over it - like our bodies
- To John Donne
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