Beckett and Modernism by Olga Beloborodova Dirk Van Hulle & Pim Verhulst

Author:Olga Beloborodova, Dirk Van Hulle & Pim Verhulst
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Leaving Spenser’s sexual obsessions aside, it is the forest setting, the strangely shaded combination of light and dark that, I would argue, prefigures especially Beckett’s ‘Serena II’, not least because of its allusion to ‘the fairy-tales of Meath’ having ended:  all these phantoms shuddering out of focus

  it is useless to close the eyes

  all the chords of the earth broken like a woman pianist’s

  the toads abroad again on their rounds

  sidling up to their snares

  the fairy-tales of Meath ended

  so say your prayers now and go to bed

  your prayers before the lamps start to sing behind the larches

  here at these knees of stone

  then to bye-bye on the bones (CP 19)

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