A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Flashcards
(55 cards)
punished by Father Arnall; because he is a priest he can do what he wants
it was because he was allowed
Heron’s persistent use of monosyllabic imperative; echoes the church
admit
relates adolescent lust to religious lexis
beside the savage desire inside him
recalls the poetry of Shelley and invokes the image of Lucifer, the morning star
the stars began to crumble and a cloud of fine stardust fell through space
after Father Arnall’s sermon, oxymoronically describes his soul as overcome by…
waves of fire
compares himself to Adam and Eve for the sin of pride
believed if they ate the fruit they would ‘become as Gods, nay as God himself’
when he decides he cannot become a priest; he has to go through life alone
He was destined to learn his own wisdom apart from others or to learn the wisdom of others himself wandering among the snares of the world
when he decides he cannot become a priest; concept of falling, and then crosses a bridge to see a statue of the Virgin Mary
He would fall. He had not yet fallen but he would fall silently, in an instant. Not to fall was too hard, too hard, and he felt the silent lapse of his soul, as it would be at some instant to come, falling, falling, but not yet fallen, still unfilled, but about to fall
imagery of fire and water again when Father Arnall beats him
describes ‘scalding water’ bursting from his eyes
temptation to sin with the girl on the tram
a voice within him spoke above the noise of his dancing heart, asking him would he take her gift to which he had only to stretch out his hand
Heron; suggesting that his association with religion is faked
you can’t play the saint on me anymore
fears being discovered rather than wanting to repent
he was conscious of failure and of detection
argument with Heron; says Byron is the greatest poet, Heron says he was immoral, Stephen says he doesn’t care (value of aesthetic art over all else)
was a heretic and immoral too
rejection of voices that call to him, telling him what to do
he was happy only when he was far from them, beyond their call, alone
man approaches him in Dublin to tell of how his father flirted; his father dissuades him
Now don’t be putting ideas into his head…leave him to his Maker
description of the story of Lucifer
it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve.
when his father and grand uncle speak of family matters and Irish politics, he says they are
words which he did not understand he said over and over to himself till he had learnt them by heart
questions what it means when he sees a winged figure flying above him
‘a hawk-like man flying sunward above the sea…a prophecy of the end he had been born to serve…a symbol of the artist forging anew in his workshop out of the sluggish matter of the earth a new soaring impalpable imperishable being’
idea of leaving behind his childhood
his soul had arisen from the grave of boyhood
pun of drowning/dead; his friends yelling from the water
I’m drownded!
reflects on how Davin has been shaped to love Ireland
His nurse had taught him Irish and shaped his rude imagination by the broken lights of Irish myth
scornful of Davin’s ignorance of a world outside of Ireland
Whatsoever thought and feeling came to him from England or by way of English culture his mind stood armed against in obedience to a password; and of the world that lay beyond England he knew only the foreign legion of France
dean’s response when Stephen speaks to him of his work on aesthetics; is Stephen well trained? He doesn’t understand emotion; also links to his fear of water
Many go down into the depths and never come up. Only the trained diver can go down into those depths and explore them and come to the surface again
feels affiliated to the Irish language and fearful of English
The language in which we are speaking is his before it is mine. How different are the words home, Christ, ale, master, on his lips and on mine! I cannot speak or write these words without unrest of spirit…My soul frets in the shadow of his language.
