English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Maud Gonne, Trojan War
10 Mar 2016
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There are two traumas in his life that deined him as a poet and as a person: first is an encounter with a woman named maud gonne. This instance deined him as a poet because without the rejecion, his art would not be what it is. This means that his rejecion at the hand of maud gonne has happened before and will happen again in the future. Maud gonne is a repeiion of a type that has circulated, she is a type of. Terrible beauty , the feminine that is ied to a destrucive beauty. He relates this to helen of troy in history. Helen of troy is responsible for the trojan war. In the sense that she was abducted, and that people had to get her back causing this war. This is nonsense, you cannot hold someone accountable for their beauty, their capture, their rape. Agency his philosophy denies the subject any agency, accountability, and power over your life.
