Drifting subjectivity describes a poetic perspective that lacks a fixed center, instead moving fluidly between voices, consciousnesses, or observational points without clear demarcation; this technique dissolves the boundaries of the lyric self, creating a permeable, empathetic mode of perception where the speaker merges with landscape, other beings, or collective memory, as in the eco-poetics of Brenda Hillman or the transpersonal lyrics of Alice Notley.

Drifting subjectivity shifts the speaker’s perspective fluidly within a poem, blurring identity boundaries; common in postmodern or feminist poetry—employ pronoun shifts or ambiguous “I” for effect.