When there are so many we shall have to mourn, When grief has been made so public, and exposed To the critique of a whole epoch The frailty of our conscience and anguish, Of whom shall we speak? For every day they die Among us, those who were doing us... Modernism and Mourning - Page 286edited by - 2007 - 310 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Harvey Seymour Gross, Robert McDowell - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 362 pages
...and the fourth line ten syllables. The pattern eleven, eleven, nine, ten is kept throughout the poem: When there are so many we shall have to mourn, When...our conscience and anguish, Of whom shall we speak? For every day they die Among us, those who were doing us some good, And knew it was never enough but... | |
| George Barker - 1996 - 252 pages
...souhaité, Avouer un autre amour Et que moi. sans un mot de révolte, Me sentant inutile, je m'en allais ? When there are so many we shall have to mourn, When...has been made so public, and exposed To the critique ofa whole epoch, Thefrailty ofour conscience and anguish. Ofwhom shall we speak ? For every day they... | |
| John Hollander - Education - 1997 - 342 pages
...midnight memory of some act of shame long forgotten but now back in sickening sweat. Robert Perm Warren When there are so many we shall have to mourn, when...our conscience and anguish, of whom shall we speak? For every day they die among us, those who were doing us some good, who knew it was never enough but... | |
| John Hollander - Education - 1997 - 342 pages
...midnight memory of some act of shame long forgotten but now back in sickening sweat. Robert Penn Wamn When there are so many we shall have to mourn, when...frailty of our conscience and anguish, of whom shall we spcak? For everv day they die among us, those who were doing us some good, who knew it was never enough... | |
| Michael P. Levine - Philosophy - 2000 - 370 pages
...BF109.F74A84 1999 150.19'52— dc21 99-24182 CIP ISBN 0-4 15-1 8039-2 (hbk) ISBN 0-415-18040-6 (pbk) When there are so many we shall have to mourn, When...our conscience and anguish, Of whom shall we speak? For every day they die Among us, those who were doing us some good, And knew it was never enough but... | |
| John B. Vickery - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 266 pages
...reflective uncertainty in the face of the apparent end of an epoch, an uncertainty as to whom to mourn: When there are so many we shall have to mourn, when...whole epoch the frailty of our conscience and anguish, 70 The Modern Elegiac Temper Auden presciently anticipates the tidal wave of death about to be unleashed... | |
| Rachel Wetzsteon - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 144 pages
...elegy, both in the poem's mournful opening, which creates a broad, panicky context for Freud's death — "When there are so many we shall have to mourn,/ when grief has been made so public ..." (CP 273) — and in its more specific moments: the fact that Freud was "an important Jew who died... | |
| Jeannine Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 324 pages
...this poem, and ideas of judgment and justice predominate. In the first stanza, the poet fears exposure "to the critique of a whole epoch / the frailty of our conscience and anguish. ..." This is a typical elegiac strategy, perhaps, but judgments persist and spur the poet to continue... | |
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