A Mölna Elegy (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gunnar Ekelöf
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Elegy
- Subjects: History, Memory, Philosophy or philosophers, Europe or Europeans, Poetry or poets, Kings, queens, or royalty, Hindus or Hinduism, Sweden or Swedish people, Shakespeare, William, or Shakespearean plays
Critical Evaluation:
In 1946, Gunnar Ekelöf wrote that his A Mölna Elegy has as its theme the relativity of time and experiences in the flow of time. The poet attempted to capture one such moment, a cross-section of time, as it were, in which experiences and re-experiences combine, both remaining separate occasions and becoming a unified instant. In the A Mölna Elegy, Ekelöf also questions the idea of identity. The poem’s first-person narrator represents a variety of personalities who focus on the lack of constancy in life and on the overwhelming transitory...
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