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Can't resist making one last point about Dubliners lest there be any doubt that James Joyce could write beautifully. These are the last words in the book from The Dead.
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Some have said that "The Dead" is literal....it takes place in the afterlife and all the characters are dead.....
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I have to agree that Dubliners was bleak, much bleaker than Ulysses which I read before it. I don't want to say James Joyce has a pessimism about it all but it's hard to stay away from that word.
However, overall I still really liked it. My favourite story was the last one, The Dead. It was more like a short novella really. Here's a quote I really liked from it: Quote:
I'm not so sure about the later stories but I also think the some of the stories were symbolic, usually about Ireland itself. It seems that someone sometimes represented either an idealised Ireland or a realistic and bleak Ireland. Similarly I think Joyce was trying to make a point about how he felt that Ireland as a whole was in a state of paralysis, by the Church, by England and by themselves. I think "Araby" is a good case in point. I think the girl was symbolic of an idealised Ireland, but when the boy wanted to do something for her he was thwarted by Ireland itself (his uncle who was drunk and didn't give him money in time and the aunt who was innefectual), the Church (the bazaar was run by the Church and the boy had to pay a lot of his money to get in and it had mostly closed by the time the boy got there and so was useless) and England (the one stand left open when the boy arrived was manned by an English girl who didn't really want to help him anyway). I think the snow in The Dead also symbolises this paralysis, and that's why in the final paragraphs Joyce makes a point of widening his scope to describe it snowing on all of Ireland. Quote:
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Great comments, Sun surfer! Since you have been residing in the mind of James Joyce for some time, I was hoping that you would post.
I love Dubliners even more than I hated it. At the risk of sounding sappy, this book has influenced my new year's resolutions. We shall see how that all works out. |
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Good for you! I wrote a poem that happened to include NZ just yesterday.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...postcount=1267 Have a great time! |
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Kenny C., are you familiar with the magazine Poetry published by the Poetry Foundation. They have great App "Poetry" available free from the iTunes App store. As well as an interesting interface which gives access to a multitude of poems, it also allows access to the magazine. It's one of my favourite apps. |
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Yeah, I used to subscribe to the magazine ages ago, but eventually decided they were not in tune with my tastes. I do visit their website on occasion when searching for a particular poet or information.
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Whatever your tastes, the Poetry Foundation's database is ginormous, and their app is easy to use and throughout searchable. I highly recommend it.
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