'We Are Changed by What We Change': W. H. Auden’s New Year Letter
| Autor: | Rowland Cotterill |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Zdroj: | Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis. Anglica Wratislaviensia, Vol 62, Iss 2, Pp 33-47 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0301-7966 2957-2339 |
| DOI: | 10.19195/0301-7966.62.2.3 |
| Popis: | This paper considers representations of change, internal and external to a changeable and changing subject, in W. H. Auden’s New Year Letter. This long poem focuses on three aspects of change: personal responses to a sense of accountability, as experienced especially by poetic artists; diagnoses of change, across three historical epochs, within a world exposed at once to individual and public pressures, most recently those of crowd-consciousness and Fascist dictatorship; and a possible embrace of performative genres and modes, including dramatic conversation and Horatian epistolography, through which these lines of personal and conceptual discourse may tend towards convergence. |
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