ENG 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Dorothy Parker, H.D., Edwin Muir
17 May 2016
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The iliad is seen replayed in modernity in term of war and love. One of the most famous retellings is troilus and cressida. He is featured in only 3 lines of the iliad. Cressida joined the greeks and another man, so troilus joined the war and was killed. Troilus becomes the archetype for the betrayed man. Another famous theme is the helen and paris theme, including that when paris dies, she marries paris"s brother, deiphobus. The trojan war becomes an archetype for wwi. Wordsworth and blake begin to retell myth from the characters" perspectives. Retell another version of the story as set in their particular period. Keats, shelley, and tennyson focus on the loss of the greek ideal. Myth for them is an escape as well as a point of comparison for the present reality. Begin to see a lament for the lost world. These 20 th century writers show a hopelessness through myth, having faced the world wars.
