General Critics Quotes Flashcards
(5 cards)
1
Q
What is the genre of the poem?
A
Cross and Lumiansky have argued that the genre is of consolatio
2
Q
The type of poem?
A
Doubleday suggests it is a ‘meditative’ poem
3
Q
The stylistic shifts within the poem?
A
Sieper call it ‘a patchwork with highly visible seams’
4
Q
The dominant themes of the poem?
A
Pasternak - ‘the isolation that is always with a person’ and ‘the locations of suffering’
5
Q
The exile state?
A
Greenfield suggests the poem presents three aspects of the exile state; ‘deprivation’, ‘state of mind’ and ‘movement in or into exile’
