General Critics Quotes Flashcards
(5 cards)
1
Q
How is the epilogue seen?
A
Irving - ‘homiletic epilogue of little poetic value’
2
Q
What does the tree transform into?
A
Irving - a ‘unique instrument of human salvation’
3
Q
A description of the vision?
A
Orchard - ‘a kaleidoscopic and necessarily fractured vision of wonder’
4
Q
What is the poem’s topic?
A
N. A. Lee - about ‘vision [as] … a way to Life and a way of life’
5
Q
The dream vision genre?
A
Swanton notes, ‘the mutability appropriate to the dream convention’ can be seen to be in force
