The Birth of New Criticism by Childs Donald J.;

Author:Childs, Donald J.; [Childs, Donald J.;]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780773542112
Publisher: McGillQueensUP
Published: 2013-09-15T05:00:00+00:00

War held me: like a mouse, I seemed.

War, the great cat played with my life,

Hissing and torturing with delay.

Or it seemed that war, a nine-thonged whip,

Flayed me, fast fettered to the ground.

I could not fly, nor show my torturer fight,

I felt like some poor lift-boy when masked thieves

Threaten him and he casts a longing eye

At the waiting lift across the hotel lounge.

Here there is nothing unconfirmable by the sense; a man can be held by war and can record his sensations by this or that analogy. But there is a distinction between poetry in which the use of allegory is static, confined to a single consistent theme (as the bomb dream used as an allegory of war) and poetry in which a variety of allegories occur, as in the cat dream.14

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