Hospital Window | The Principle Theme of The Hospital Window
In the following
essay, Barron discusses how the elegy, as an ancient
poetic genre, explains the principle theme of
“The Hospital Window.”
Elegy, one of the most ancient and important
poetic genres, has, in the past 150 years, undergone
such a shift that recent scholars now distinguish between
the elegy, on the one hand, and a new “modern
elegy” on the other hand. One scholar, a professor
of English at the University of Virginia,
Jahan Ramazani, has done the most work on this
distinction. According to him, the modern elegy
does not conform to its traditional three-part mission:
consolation, lamentation, praise. Instead, the
modern elegy, as he says, “rebel[s] against generic
norms but reclaims them through rebellion.”...
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