ENGL 1003H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Modern Art, Irish Mythology
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Romantic poem that re ects irish mythology & folk tradition. Focuses on irish writing not english writing. The richness & appeal of the poetic image vs dull reality of life in the world. Modernism: philosophical mode of the 20th century. A new kind of inner perception: a consciously modern one. Symbol: a picture or icon with reestablished, commonly held or understood meaning. Image: a picture or icon which the text imbues w/ meaning through association, inference / reference or repetition. Thinking through the implications of violent revolution. The second coming uncertainty sets in; terrible certainty about the result or outcome; persistence of symbolic meaning juxtaposed to its loss.
