Autumn Journal
A War, European Literature, Cultural book. I cannot drug my life with the present moment;The present moment may rape--but all in vain--The future, for...
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- Pages: 96 pages
- ISBN: 9780571197453 / 571197450
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Give those who are gentle strength,Give those who are strong a generous imagination,And make their half-truth true and let the crooked Footpath find its parent road at length....For never to beginAnything new because we know there is nothingNew, is an academic sophistry--The original sin.I have already had friendsAmong things and hours and peopleBut taking them one by one--odd hours and passing people;Now I must make amendsAnd try to correlate event with instinctAnd me with you or you with you with all,No longer think of time as a waterfallAbstracted... None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives.Are self deceivers, but the worst of allDeceits is to murmur 'Lord, I am not worthy'And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall. Louis MacNeice, Autumn Journal // All that I would like to be is human, having a sharein a civilized, articulate and well-adjustedcommunity where the mind is given its duebut the body is not distrusted Louis MacNeice, Autumn Journal //
MacNeice is often sneered at as a lessen member of the Auden/Day Lewis coterie, and unfavourably compared with other "Irish" poets, but I have a genuine love of this window into his private thoughts in response to the great events of 1938-9 and reflections on things "back home" in Ulster over the "marching season" of that year. There... Bettie, Wanda I needed to listen to this strange and sad journalistic poetry. Like it was great timing, seasonally, but also because so much of late 30s Europe feels relateable to current events ("current events!!" mr rhodes cackles as he rubs his hands together). I also just like the idea of a poetic diary.
