ENGL 228 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Irving Layton, P. K. Page, Friedrich Nietzsche
16 Aug 2016
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Troubled the complacency of bourgeois society saw poetry as an aggressive cultural critique. Poetry was meant to pry people out of their habits. Born 1912 in romania, immigrated to montreal as a child. Montreal that brought him a critical view belonged to a 3rd realm of canadian society. Outspoken atheist who attacked religion and superstition. Was deeply in uenced by world war ii he was concentration camp material due to his. Resulted in his support of jewish nationalism after the war. Poems tried to understand the holocaust, and to understand genocide. Analyzed and dissected the cause of genocide from within the human heart. Wanted to uncover what was inside the individual that allowed such genocide to happen un attering to humanity. The more we see our faults, the less inclined we are to give them free reign . Poems were unethical if you are strong, go out and steal and rob .
